Children of the Blitz
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Support On this page you can find links to internet sites focus on the Home Front and evacuation during world war two. You can use these sites for additional research for yourself and your students as you try to recapture the atmosphere of the period. Please be aware that these links will take you to external websites and I am not responsible for the content therein. Children of the Blitz makes use of speeches and music from the time. There is also a need for certain sounds - such as the air raid. In the sounds section on this page, you should find all of the speeches, songs and effects that you are likely to need in your production.
Websites: The Home Front and Evacuation. |
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These sound effects have either been created by my self or gathered from sources on the internet. Feel free to utilise them in your show or to use them as the basis for the creation of your own effects. All of the sounds are in mp3 format. To hear the sounds just left click on them. To save the sounds, then right click on the link and choose "save target as" from the menu. If you feel that any of these sounds are in breach of copyright, then please contact me and I will remove them from the site. Chamberlain's declaration of war Churchill - "We will fight them on the beaches..." Churchill - "...their Finest Hour" speech at the end of The Battle of Britain
White Cliff of Dover - Vera Lyn There'll Always be an England - Vera Lyn On a Wing and a Prayer - Anne Shelton Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller I Did What I Could with my Gas Mask - George Formby Get in your Shelter - Arthur Askey Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun - Noel Coward If a Grey-haired Lady Says "How's Your Father" - Flanagan and Allen Children of the Blitz includes two songs from the period - "Run Rabbit Run" and "There'll always be an England". Ideally the musical accompaniment for the songs should be played live - indeed may be played by a member of the cast as part of the play itself. If a live accompaniment is not possible then a recording should be made of the piano part for use in the show. To help you on the way, I have included midi files of both songs and a link to the lyrics for both. Midi files tend to sound rather naff, so I advise using these only until you have a better alternative! There'll Always be a England - midi Lyrics for both songs - word format
These sound sequences have been specially created for Children of the Blitz and match the narrative needs of the production. For example, in the air raid first you hear the approach of the bombers and only when they are overhead do you hear the anti-aircraft battery open fire on them. This then provokes the dropping of the bombs on the village. You may find that in practice some of these sounds do not quite match the timimg of your scenes in performance in which case below you will find links to collections of sounds (in zip files) to help you create your own or enhance the ones above Air raid - includes sirens, ack-ack, passing bombers, bombs and explosions Dogfight - various fighter sounds and canon/machine gune fire Trains - various sounds of steam trains and whistles These sounds, speeches and songs have been collected in good faith from various sites around the internet. If you feel that there is any infringement of copyright with any of these sounds then please contact me immediately.
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