John Snagge
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 27 years ago |
| Date of birth | May 8,1904 |
| Zodiac sign | Taurus |
| Born | Chelsea |
| London | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | March 25,1996 |
| Died | Slough |
| United Kingdom | |
| Job | Journalist |
| Commentator | |
| Television presenter | |
| Books | Those vintage years of radio |
| Songs | D-Day Landings - News |
| D-Day | |
| The Battle Of Britain In 1940 / Speech To The Children By The 14-Year-Old Princess Elizabeth | |
| General Dwight D Eisenhower / Princess Elizabeth In Uniform / Clement Attlee / Victory In Japan In 1945 / King George VI | |
| Announcement Of Victory In Europe Day | |
| Flute Concerto in D Minor, RV 431a Il gran mogol: Flute Concerto in D Minor, RV 431a, Il Gran Mogol: I. Allegro non molto | |
| God Save The Queen | |
| Britain Stands Alone | |
| Men Can Sing Together | |
| Princess Elizabeth Twenty-First Birthday In 1947 / Marriage Of Princess Elizabeth To Hrh The Duke Of Edinburgh / Admission To Order Of The Garter | |
| News Bulletin: German Surrender | |
| The Lion Has Wings | |
| We Shall Remember Them | |
| Hrh The Prince Of Wales / Wedding Of Duke Of Kent And Princess Marina / Silver Jubilee In 1935 | |
| Victory Parade In 1946 / Royal Tour Of South Africa And Rhodesia In 1947 / Field-Marshal Smuts | |
| Bombing Of London / President Franklin D Roosevelt / Winston Churchill Give Us The Tools And We Will Finish The Job / Victory In Europe In 1945 | |
| Prelude To War | |
| The Long Night Ends | |
| Tapestry Of Empire | |
| Opening Of Festival Of Britain In 1951 By King George VI / Birth Of Princess Anne / Trooping Of The Colour | |
| D-Day Announcement | |
| The Wasted Years | |
| News Bulletin: Operation Market Garden 17. 9. 1944 | |
| Solemn Act Of Dedication / First Christmas Day Broadcast By Hm King George V In 1932 | |
| News Bulletin: D-Day | |
| Funeral Of King George V In 1936 / Accession And Abdication Of King Edward VIII In 1936 / Coronation Of King George VI In 1937 | |
| Birth Of Prince Charles In 1948 / Vduke Of Edinburgh Receives Freedom Of The Scottish Capital In 1949 / Visit To Wales And Northern Ireland | |
| Visit To Australia And New Zealand In 1952 / Funeral Of King George VI | |
| The Reckoning | |
| Visit To Canada And Washington / President Truman | |
| News Bulletin: Italy Surrenders | |
| News Bulletin: Brussels Liberated 4. 9. 1944 | |
| Movies/Shows | The Magic Christian |
| Punk Can Take It | |
| Current partner | Joan Mary Wilson |
| Eileen Mary Josceylyne | |
| Parents | Gwendaline Rose Emily Colomb |
| Sir Mordaunt Snagge | |
| Education | Pembroke College |
| Winchester College | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1370106 |
John Snagge Life story
John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge OBE was a British newsreader and commentator on BBC Radio.
BBC's secret World War Two activities revealed
BBC newsreader John Snagge reported on the D-Day landings
A new archive has revealed the BBC's role In Secret activities during World War Two, including sending coded messages to European resistance groups.
Documents and interviews, released by BBC History, include plans to replace Big Ben 's chimes with a recorded version in The Event of an air attack.
This would ensure the Germans did not know their planes were over Westminster.
BBC programmers would also play music to contact Polish freedom fighters.
Using the codename "Peter Peterkin", that would be broadcast following the Polish news service.
Historian David Hendy said: "The bulletins broadcast to Poland would be deliberately short by a minute or so And Then a secret messenger from The Exiled Polish government would deliver a record to be played.
"The Choice of music would send The Message to fighters. "
Alec Sutherland, The Man who oversaw the use of music at the end of news bulletins, said it was his job to make sure producers played The Right record, even if it was scratched.
"They would see one which they thought would make a better broadcast and the wrong bridge would get blown up in Poland. "
The coded messages to the French resistance in news bulletins were less opaque and consisted of a few phrases dropped into a programme script or foreign language news bulletin.
On The Night of 5 June 1944, the eve of D-Day, the phrase "Berce mon coeur d'une langueur monotone" or "cradle my heart with a monotonous languor" signalled The Invasion was about to begin.
BBC transmitters at Alexandra Palace in north London were also used as part of an RAF operation to distort the navigating system of Luftwaffe bombers, so that they were misled about direction and range.
Other items in the archive include several contemporaneous eye witness accounts of bombing raids of Broadcasting House in 1940 and BBC newsreader John Snagge 's account of The Hours leading up to his first broadcast about the D-Day landings when he was kept under armed guard to stop the news leaking out.
The full Oral History collection, The BBC and World War Two: 100 Voices that made the BBC, is available online at
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Source of news: bbc.com
