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    Which famous author drafted King George V's first Christmas Day broadcast speech for him?

    Question #41392. Asked by MaggieG 5. (Nov 21 03 4:54 PM)


    Siskin



    Rudyard Kipling.

    The message was sent from a study in Sandringham House in Norfolk. The text of the first Christmas speech was written by poet and writer Rudyard Kipling. The King famously said: "I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all; to men and women so cut off by the snows, the desert, or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them."


    Nov 21 03, 5:08 PM
    shady shaker

    		What year did that happen?

    Nov 22 03, 6:42 AM
    Siskin

    		In 1932 when King George V made the first royal Christmas broadcast to what was then the British Empire, it was transmitted live from his small study at Sandringham, in Norfolk, where the royal family always spend their Christmas holidays.

    The speech was scripted by the famous author, Rudyard Kipling, and began with the words: "I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all."



    Nov 22 03, 7:06 AM

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