One of the reporters sending back dispatches recorded on the
newly-developed Midget Recorder was Frank Gillard (pictured in 1944 above), who in 1985 revisited some
of the battlegrounds and recalled how he and his colleagues brought the news
back to Britain.
War Report was
broadcast for fifteen minutes each evening at 9.15 p.m. from deep in the
basement of Broadcasting House, Studio LG1. An enthralled audience of between
ten and fifteen million would tune in. There
were some 235 editions, from D-Day until VE Day.
In August 1985 BBC Radio 4 broadcast two documentaries fronted by Gillard that told the story of War Report. The producer at BBC Bristol was John Knight.
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