BBC: The Voice of Britain

Overview

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and transmitters, weaving speeches, music, and outside broadcasts—featuring voices like H. G. Wells and Ramsay MacDonald—into a kinetic portrait of how the BBC’s national “voice” is made.

Cast

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Self

H. G. Wells

Self

Stuart Hibberd

Rev 'Dick' Sheppard

Val Gielgud

John Sharman

Humphrey Jennings

Adrian Boult

Queen Consort of George V Mary

Ramsay MacDonald