Events
- 5 January: FM radio is demonstrated for the FCC for the first time.
- 26 May: Fireside chat: On National Defense
- 18 June: General Charles de Gaulle, de facto leader of the Free French Forces in World War II, uses the airwaves of the BBC to make his 18th of June Appeal to the French people for resistance to the Nazi German occupation of France.
- 15 October: Seven staff are killed when an attempt to eject a delayed-action German bomb from Broadcasting House in London fails.
- 29 December: Fireside chat: On National Security
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