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Last Updated: Monday, 19 August, 2002, 17:23 GMT 18:23 UK
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HISTORICAL BROADCASTS
The BBC's television service closed during the war, leaving radio as the major source of information. The newsroom brought the latest news from the battlefront; correspondents in the field followed the Army as it fought its way across Europe after D-Day; Richard Dimbleby was there when Belsen concentration camp was liberated, and when Churchill led the celebrations on VE Night in London.
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The post-war austerity was lifted slightly with the wedding of the young Princess Elizabeth in 1947; and the birth of Prince Charles in 1948; but in 1952 King George VI died and the following year the princess was crowned Queen.
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Three years later the country was in the grip of a political crisis after Egypt nationalised the Suez Canal, and Britain, France and Israel agreed a secret pact for military intervention.The Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, ordered British troops to intervene when Israel invaded Egypt; but the policy provoked fierce controversy and was denounced by the Labour leader, Hugh Gaitskell.
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