Radio Londres

Radio Londres
  • London
Broadcast areaFrance
FrequenciesConstantly changing, broadcasting on mediumwave, longwave and shortwave[1]
Programming
Language(s)French
FormatPropaganda
AffiliationsFrench government in London, Special Operations Executive
Ownership
OwnerBBC European Service
Radio Belgique
Londoner Rundfunk
History
First air date
19 June 1940 (1940-06-19)
Last air date
25 October 1944 (1944-10-25)

Radio Londres ([ʁa.djo lɔ̃dʁ], French for "Radio London") was a radio station broadcast from 1940 to 1944 by the BBC in London to Nazi-occupied France. It was entirely in French and was operated by the Free French who had escaped from occupied France. It served not only to counter the propaganda broadcasts of German-controlled Radio Paris and the Vichy government's Radiodiffusion Nationale, but also to appeal to the French to rise up, as well as being used to send coded messages to the French Resistance.

  1. ^ Wieviorka, Olivier (26 April 2016). The French Resistance. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674970397 – via Google Books.

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