The Story of British Pathe
Season 1 • Episode 2: The Voice of Pathé • Watch with subtitles
Episode 2: The Voice of Pathé
August 25, 2011 • 60 min
The company's output really came into its own during the Second World War, when the distinctively clipped and relentlessly chipper commentaries by its announcer Bob Danvers-Walker provided stirring encouragement during the Blitz - and offered authoritative advice on how housewives struggling to feed their families on the ration could overcome privation and to 'make do and mend'.
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