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John Snagge

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John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge OBE (8 May 1904 – 25 March 1996) was a long-time British newsreader and commentator on BBC Radio. Born in Chelsea, London, he was educated at Winchester College and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he obtained a degree in law. He then joined the BBC, taking up the position of assistant director at Stoke-on-Trent's new local radio station. He broadcast his first sports commentary (of a Hull City versus Stoke City football match) in January 1927, after the BBC obtained the rights to cover major sporting events.

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  1. News Bulletin: Italy Surrenders - 8.9.1943
  2. News Bulletin: Italy Surrenders (8.9.1943)
  3. News Bulletin: Operation Market Garden 17.9.1944
  4. News Bulletin: D-Day - 6.6.1944
  5. D-Day Landings - News
  6. Annouces Victory In Europe Day
  7. First Christmas Day Speech of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952
  8. D-Day Announcement
  9. News Bulletin: German Surrender - 8.5.1945
  10. Announcement Of Victory In Europe Day
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  1. D-Day Landings (News Report)
  2. Chimes Of Big Ben, The BBC Calling The World From London
  3. News Bulletin: D-Day (6.6.1944)
  4. News Bulletin: German Surrender (8.5.1945)
  5. The Reckoning
  6. The Wasted Years
  7. Sunderland - Operational Patrol (24 August 1942)
  8. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (Part 3)
  9. Tapestry Of Empire
  10. Prelude to War : King Edward VIII / Austria is Annexed / Neville Chamberlain / Poland Invaded / Neville Chamberlain Announces War / London's Hears Frist Air Raid Alert
  11. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (Part 1)
  12. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II (Part 2)
  13. Men Can Sing Together
  14. The Lion Has Wings : R.A.F Spitfires and Hurricanes/ Luftwaffe's Night Blitz / Spirit of The Cockey/ The "Hi Gang" and "Itma" Radio Programme / The Voice of Colonel Britten
  15. New World Rallies To Old
  16. Solemn Act of Dedication / First Christmas Day Broadcast by Hm King George V in 1932
  17. Hrh the Prince of Wales / Wedding of Duke of Kent and Princess Marina / Silver Jubilee in 1935
  18. Hm Queen Elizabeth II
  19. The Lion Has Wings
  20. We Shall Remember Them
  21. The Long Night Ends
  22. Introduction
  23. Announcement of Victory in Europe
  24. Stern Memories of Crises: Voices of Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain / Launching of Cunard Liner "Queen Elizabeth" / Declaration of War in 1939 Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill
  25. Sunderland - Operational Patrol - 24 August 1942
  26. Capture Of Brussels, News Item Followed By Bands And Crowds Singing Quand Madelon After The Liberation, 4.9.44
  27. Oxford V. Cambridge Boat Race, 1949
  28. D Day Landings
  29. Prelude To War
  30. We Shall Remember Them : Victory Celebration on V-E Day / Winston Churchill/ General 'Ike" Eisenhower Becomes a Freeman / Franklin D Roosevelt Memorial Service
  31. Victory Parade in 1946 / Royal Tour of South Africa and Rhodesia in 1947 / Field-Marshal Smuts
  32. D-Day Landings On Normandy Coast, News Item, 6.6.44
  33. General Dwight D Eisenhower / Princess Elizabeth in Uniform / Clement Attlee / Victory in Japan in 1945 / King George VI
  34. God Save the Queen (National Anthem)
  35. News Bulletin: Brussels Liberated 4.9.1944
  36. The Long Night Ends :El Alamein / General 'Ike' Eisenhower / Under Fire at Arnhem / Joyous Paris, Army of Liberation / Britains Final Ordeal / Crossing the Rhine / Nazi Concentration Camp Victim Meets His Mother
  37. Britain Stands Up Alone : Gas-Mask Training/ Low Countries Invaded/ Singing Tommies / J. B. Priestley / Enslaved Europe / Winston Churchill
  38. Tapestry of Empire : Britains Royal Family in South Africa and the Rhodesias / King George VI / Princess Elizabeth / Jawaharlal Nehru / The Swearing In of Lord Louis Mountbatten / Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh
  39. The Reckoning : Clement Attlee, the End of the War / Churchill and Attlee /Nuremberg, Herman Goering and Rudolf Hess / Nuremberg Judgement Pronounced / Heinrich Himmler's Suicide / William "Lord Haw-Haw" Joyce Is Sentenced
  40. Britain Stands Alone
  41. Birth of Prince Charles in 1948 / Vduke of Edinburgh Receives Freedom of the Scottish Capital in 1949 / Visit to Wales and Northern Ireland
  42. Opening of Festival of Britain in 1951 by King George VI / Birth of Princess Anne / Trooping of the Colour
  43. Visit to Canada and Washington / President Truman
  44. D-Day Landings - News Report
  45. The New World Rallies to the Old : Pearl Harbour / Franklin D Roosevelt/ General Douglas MacArthur / British Workers Sing / A Nightingales Voice / Bomber Crew Over Berlin / General Montgomery
  46. Bombing of London / President Franklin D Roosevelt / Winston Churchill "Give Us the Tools and We Will Finish the Job" / Victory in Europe in 1945
  47. Funeral of King George V in 1936 / Accession and Abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 / Coronation of King George VI in 1937
  48. The Wasted Years : President Truman / H. G. Wells/ Ramsey MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin / Mussolini / King George V / Amelia Ehrart / The Giant Airship Hindenburg Bursts Into Flames
  49. Visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1952 / Funeral of King George VI
  50. John Snagge Annouces Victory In Europe Day
  51. Travel Intro
  52. Capture Of Brussels - News Item Followed By Band And Crowds Singing "Quand Madelon" After The Liberation 04.09.44
  53. Men Can Sing Together : The Duke of Edinburgh / Dr. Chaim Weizman / U.S Secretary of State George Marshall / Soviet Blockade of Berlin / Ernest Bevin / The Olympic Games London, 1948
  54. The Battle of Britain in 1940 / Speech to the Children by the 14-Year-Old Princess Elizabeth
  55. Announces the Launching of the Invasion "D-Day Has Come"
  56. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, II. The Entrance into the Church: [The Archbishop receives the regalia]
  57. Repeats That D-Day Has Come
  58. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - Part 1
  59. Capitulation Of Italy - News Bulletin 8.9.43
  60. D-Day Landings On Normandy Coast - News Item 06.06.44
  61. Oxford Vs. Cambridge Boat Race, 1949
  62. Memorial Service In Westminster Abbey For Lord Reith 22.07.71 - Lament "Flowers Of The Forest"
  63. Britain Stands up Alone
  64. The New World Rallies to the Old
  65. Princess Elizabeth Twenty-First Birthday in 1947 / Marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Hrh the Duke of Edinburgh / Admission to Order of the Garter
  66. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force Communique No. 1 - 6 June 1944
  67. D-Day Landings
  68. The first official D-Day announcement
  69. D-Day Has Come
  70. Announces VE Day
  71. Communique # 1
  72. Announcement invasion
  73. Announces the launching of the invasion, D-day has come
  74. Announces Victory In Europe Day. 7/5/45
  75. The Birth of Radio
  76. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, XIV. The Homage, Anthems: O Lord, our Governour (Healey Willan) [partly behind speech]
  77. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, XVII. The Recess: Fanfare (Gordon Jacob [not Ernest Bullock]) - National Anthem (arr. Gordon Jacob)
  78. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, II. The Entrance into the Church: Fanfare (Ernest Bullock)
  79. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, II. The Entrance into the Church: Anthem: I was glad (Hubert Parry) [with Vivats]
  80. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: IV. The Oath
  81. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, VII. The Anointing: Anthem: Zadok the Priest (G. F. Handel)
  82. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, VI. The Beginning of the Communion Service: The Gospel
  83. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, VI. The Beginning of the Communion Service: Creed (Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor) [sung in English, adapted Maurice Jacobson]
  84. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: XVI. [Coronation] Te Deum (William Walton)
  85. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, XVII. The Recess: Fanfare (Ernest Bullock) - organ improvisation [behind commentary]
  86. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, XV. The Communion: Gloria (C. V. Stanford: Festal Communion Service in B
  87. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, VII. The Anointing: Hymn: Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (plainsong
  88. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: VIII. The Presenting of the Spurs and Sword, and the Oblation of the sai
  89. The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, VI. The Beginning of the Communion Service: Introit: Behold, O God our defender (Herbert Howells)
  90. John Snagge Announces The Launching Of The Invasion "D-Day Has Come"

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