Speeches
Fight on the Beaches
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Winston Churchill’s “Fight on the Beaches” is a wartime address delivered to the British House of Commons on June 4, 1940, as the evacuation from Dunkirk had just concluded. Churchill describes the peril facing Britain and the possibility of invasion, then sets out the resolve to continue resisting Nazi Germany.
Rather than a fictional radio drama, this recording presents a historic political speech. Its force comes from Churchill’s measured, emphatic delivery and the progression from sober assessment of military danger to a declaration of defiance. The famous closing passage, with its repeated promise to fight on, gives the address its enduring rhetorical power.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.