Churchill recorded it nine years later
The famous 'We shall fight on the beaches' recording everyone knows was not made in 1940 but recorded by Churchill nine years after the war ended.
The voice the world associates with Winston Churchill's most famous wartime speech is not what it seems.
The original 1940 speech
Churchill delivered his speech to Parliament on June 4, 1940. It became known as 'We shall fight on the beaches.' However, this famous address was never recorded at the time he gave it.
The recording everyone knows
The voice everyone recognizes came from years later. Churchill recorded the speech again for a 1949 record.
A postwar retake
So the famous wartime audio that has been played countless times in documentaries and classrooms is actually a retake. The recording was made nine years after the original delivery, long after the war had ended.
