11.15AM September 3rd, London...
To "commemorate" the occasion - the BBC today put this up on the Net. Although the text has been freely available, the actual speech itself apparently hasn't been for some time...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbrea ... =2&id=7917
Personally, I think it's one of the saddest bits of spoken English you will ever listen to; spoken by a man who, in the end, found out he really was a nothing standing against the tides of history - you can hear that soul-shattering realisation in his voice.
In Memoriam...
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"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." - Malcolm Reynolds