BBC Written Archives

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BBC Written Archives

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Radio Broadcast Scripts, 1941-1946
Dorothy Macardle moved to London during the Second World War, living there between 1939 and 1945. She was opposed to the Fianna Fáil government’s neutrality policy. She believed that by living outside the country for the duration of the war and utilising her journalistic and propaganda skills, she could best contribute to the campaign of resistance against fascism.
She worked as a scriptwriter and broadcaster for the BBC in London, where her talks were broadcast to a North American audience. Her broadcasts cover her attitudes about fascism, the war relief efforts, and the health and psychological effects of war on people.
Macardle’s interest in the world outside of Irish politics was reflected in her humanitarian work in England during and immediately after the period of the war.
During the war, the press and other forms of media were censored in Britain, and many of Macardle’s BBC broadcasts bear the ‘censored’ stamp. Her BBC broadcasts, work with refugees, and the publication of Children of Europe demonstrates her ongoing political involvement in war politics.
The file consists of a series of 11 talks by Dorothy Macardle between 1941 and 1946.

Creator

Dorothy Macardle

Date

1941-1946

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