The British Library
The Century in Sound
1999
sound clip

#    Title    Time    Info  
1 1901 1st performance of Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance March No.1 1:14
2 - Sir Ernest Shackleton 1:56
3 Votes for Women - Christabel Pankhurst 1:18
4 1909 Speech on the Budget - David Lloyd George 1:17
5 1912 The sinking of the Titanic - C H Lightoller 1:57
6 Gas Shell Bombardment - It's a long way to Tipperary - 1914 - WW... 1:11
7 'With our boys at the front - Sgt E.Dwyer 1915 - WW1 1:17
8 First World War Homefront - Sir Hugh Casson - WW1 2:01
9 1924 Opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun - Dr Howard Carter - 193... 1:25
10 1926 The General Strike - Jack Gaster 1:37
11 1929 Election Speech on unemployment - Ramsay macdonald 1:24
12 1930 G.B. Shaw & Albert Einstein 2:17
13 1930 'The story of my flight' - Amy Johnson & Amy 2:31
14 1931 - His spiritual message to the World - Gandhi 1:31
15 1932 1st Royal xmas day broadcast - King George V 1:26
16 1934 Fascists rally at Olympia - Sir Oswald Mosley 2:48
17 'Tonight at 8.30' Scene from Shadow Play Pt 1 - Noel Coward 2:15
18 1936 Abdication of Edward Vii 2:09
19 1937 Hindenburg air disaster 1:27
20 Declaration of War - 1939 Neville Chamberlain -WWII 0:43
21 Air Raid Siren - WWII 0:16
22 'This was their Finest hour' - Sir Winston Churchill 1:35
23 Night Raid on London 1941 - WWII 0:19
24 'A Broadcast message to the children' - Princess Elizabeth 1940 1:26
25 VI Bomb - WWII 0:42
26 'White Cliffs of Dover' - WWII 2:06
27 1948 Foundation of the National Health Service 2:17
28 Jazz club theme 1:27
29 Shakespeare: Othello 1:09
30 Coming to Britain 2:35
31 'Sweet Jamaica' - Lord Kitchener 1:30
32 'The wind of change - 1960 0:46
33 1960 'Lady chatterleys Lover' goes on sale - 1960 0:54
34 'The white heat of technology' - Harold wilson - 1963 0:56
35 1963 assassination of Pres. Kennedy 1:57
36 1966 Football World Cup Final - Brian Moore 0:42
37 1968 Roll out of first UK Concorde 1:22
38 1969 Apollo 11 moon Landing - Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong 3:04
39 1972 Mary Peters wins Olympic Gold 1:41
40 Endangered nature - Sir David Attenborough 1:40
41 1982 Argentina invades the Falkland Islands - Margaret Thatcher 1:34
42 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1:05
43 1993 Joint declaration on Northern Ireland - John Major 7 Albert... 1:14
44 Diana, Princess of Wales & Martin Bashire 0:54
45 1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales 1:24
46 Britain & Europe - Tony Blair & William Hague - 1999 4:52
47 The next century - 1999 2:17
Total time 72:52