Thank you so much!
Best wishes
Midge
On Sunday, January 27, 2008, at 05:57 PM, Michael Nelson wrote:
> Colonel Britton
>
> See:
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> Charles J. Rolo, "Radio goes to War: The 'Fourth Front'", New York:
> G.P.
> Putnam's, 1940, pp. 177-9.
>
> E. Tangye Lean, "Voices in the Darkness: The Story of the European
> Radio
> War", London: Secker and Warburg 1943, pp. 189-93.
>
> Gerard Mansell, "Let Truth Be Told: 50 Years of BBC External
> Broadcasting",
> London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982, pp. 137-8.
>
> Michael Nelson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The History of the BBC [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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> Of midge gillies
> Sent: 26 January 2008 20:32
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> Subject: [BBC-HISTORY] Colonel Briton WWII
>
> Could anyone help, please? A friend and colleague would like to more
> about a wartime BBC presenter who called himself 'Colonel Briton'
> (Britain? Britten?). He encouraged occupied peoples in WWII to put up
> V-signs (V-for-victory).
>
> If anyone has any suggestions about where she might find out more she
> would be very grateful.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Midge Gillies
>
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