# Children Calling Home

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* United Kingdom
* Canada
* United States
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* [BBC Home Service](/source/BBC_Home_Service)
* [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation) 
* [NBC](/source/NBC) 
* [Australian Broadcasting Commission](/source/Australian_Broadcasting_Commission)
* [New Zealand Broadcasting Service](/source/New_Zealand_Broadcasting_Service)
* [South African Broadcasting Corporation](/source/South_African_Broadcasting_Corporation)
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'''''Children Calling Home''''' was an English-language radio programme, with the first episode on [Christmas Day](/source/Christmas_Day), 25 December 1940 as a collaboration between the United Kingdom's [BBC](/source/BBC_Radio)'s [Home Service](/source/BBC_Home_Service), [CBC](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation) of Canada, and [NBC](/source/NBC) of the United States, and broadcast simultaneously in all three countries.<ref name="RT1">{{cite magazine |title=Children Calling Home |magazine=[The Radio Times](/source/The_Radio_Times) |date=20 December 1940 |issue=899 |page=20,23 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/462f90d906974de394563564cdd09698|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001114122/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/462f90d906974de394563564cdd09698|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 October 2022}}</ref> The following day, an episode made by the BBC in collaboration with the [Australian Broadcasting Commission](/source/Australian_Broadcasting_Commission), the [New Zealand Broadcasting Service](/source/New_Zealand_Broadcasting_Service) and the [South African Broadcasting Corporation](/source/South_African_Broadcasting_Corporation), was broadcast simultaneously in all four of their countries.<ref name="RT1" /> The presenter for the BBC was [Roy Rich](/source/Roy_Rich); their producer was [Enid Maxwell](/source/Enid_Maxwell).<ref name="White">{{cite book |last1=White |first1=Antonia |title=BBC at War |date=1946 |url=https://transdiffusion.org/2022/04/08/bbc-at-war-part-4-across-the-oceans/}}</ref><ref name=SMH>{{cite news|title=Children's Two-Way Radio Talks|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19410520&id=JWlVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3295,2461263|newspaper=[Sydney Morning Herald](/source/Sydney_Morning_Herald)|date=20 May 1941}}</ref>

The programme allowed children [evacuated](/source/Evacuations_of_civilians_in_Britain_during_World_War_II) to the host countries from the UK, due to bombing during [World War II](/source/World_War_II), to talk with their parents.<ref name="Lawson">{{cite news |last1=Lawson |first1=Mark |title=A commie witch-hunt, a live abdication and a military invasion of sport: 100 years of the BBC, part two |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/27/a-commie-witch-hunt-a-live-abdication-and-a-military-invasion-of-sport-100-years-of-the-bbc-part-two |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) |author-link1=Mark Lawson |date=27 September 2022 }}</ref>

The series continued, with various permutations of the involved networks, until at least 31 May 1944.<ref name="RT2">{{cite magazine |title=Children Calling Home |magazine=[The Radio Times](/source/The_Radio_Times) |date=26 May 1944 |issue=899 |page=12 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/59ed1c1aa3b14f928823e67d98ad9d65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021054816/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/59ed1c1aa3b14f928823e67d98ad9d65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 October 2014 }}</ref>

The journalist [Mark Lawson](/source/Mark_Lawson) identifies it as the first example of [co-production](/source/Co-production_(media)).<ref name="Lawson" />

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08bsvky 25 December 1942 episode] in the BBC archives. Featuring children in New York, Capetown and Toronto.
* [https://www.britishpathe.com/video/children-calling-home 1941 newsreel footage] from [Pathé News](/source/Path%C3%A9_News), showing guests in the radio studio.

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Category:Home front during World War II
Category:Children's radio programs
Category:1940s Canadian radio programs
Category:1940s American radio programs
Category:1940s British radio programmes

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