{"id":13619,"date":"2015-06-15T18:12:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T22:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13619"},"modified":"2015-06-15T18:12:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T22:12:40","slug":"bbc-radio-4-doc-about-the-life-and-trial-of-william-joyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/bbc-radio-4-doc-about-the-life-and-trial-of-william-joyce\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 4 doc about the life and trial of William Joyce"},"content":{"rendered":"
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William Joyce (a.k.a. “Lord Haw Haw”)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Jonathan Marks<\/a>, who shares this brilliant radio documentary from BBC Radio 4<\/a> about the trial of the infamous Lord Haw Haw.<\/p>\n

(Source: Radio 4<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Clive Anderson looks at a variety of famous or infamous cases and retells the story that the case brought into the public eye.<\/p>\n

In this programme he explores the 1945 trial of William Joyce – Lord Haw-Haw – for High Treason.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Featuring Professor Colin Holmes, Geoffrey Robertson QC and Professor Jean Seaton.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here to listen to the full episode via Radio 4.<\/a><\/p>\n

As a side note, if you’re interested in WWII propaganda, I would highly recommend the book,\u00a0Hitler’s Radio War<\/em> by Roger Tidy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to read my review of Hitler’s Radio War<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jonathan Marks, who shares this brilliant radio documentary from BBC Radio 4 about the trial of the infamous Lord Haw Haw. (Source: Radio 4) Clive Anderson looks at a variety of famous or infamous cases and retells the story that the case brought into the public eye. In this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1850,288],"tags":[1347,246,3909,3908],"class_list":["post-13619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-propaganda","category-radio-history","tag-bbc-radio-4","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-lord-haw-haw","tag-william-joyce"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3xF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53226,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/bbc-radio-4-scotlands-lord-haw-haw\/","url_meta":{"origin":13619,"position":0},"title":"BBC Radio 4: “Scotland’s Lord Haw Haw”","author":"Thomas","date":"July 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: BBC Radio 4) Scotland's Lord Haw Haw Radio played a key role in the propaganda campaigns of Nazi Germany. 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