Churchill’s Rare Press Conferences
I am completing an English assignment which looks at the speeches of Winston Churchill and would like to look at any radio interviews Churchill gave during World War II but have, so far, only been able to find speeches. Please could you advise me whether any such interviews are in existence? —E.L.
Churchill rarely gave interviews—only two that I know of as a young man, and those reluctantly. Speeches (live) were his preference. However, on his visit to Washington after Pearl Harbor, on 23 December 1941, Presidential Roosevelt ushered him into a presidential press conference, where he acquitted himself well.…