John Frost
speaker
2,989 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2d ago
John Frost’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 4.
Appearances
deep respect I have for the generation of ordinary men and women who served during the Second World War.
Thank you for sending that story in, Norn.
This story is from Stuart.
Born in Coventry in 1920, my late father, Alan Green, was a twenty-year-old pharmacy student at Leicester School of Pharmacy when he joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve at RAF Carlington on the first of May 1940.
Having originally been earmarked for observer pilot, he was selected as a navigator as a result of colour blindness.
He was mobilized on the twentieth of September 1940, following which he was sent to Torquay in Devon.
to complete his basic training.
On the fourteenth of november nineteen forty, Alan heard rumors that thousands have been killed in his home city in the biggest single raid on the UK in World War II.
Here is the original letter he sent to his parents following the attack.
Dearest Ma and Pa and Gwen, many thanks for the letter I received last night around seven o'clock.
It was a great relief to know that you were all alive anyway, even if other things have gone.
Very few people will have anything left after this war, and if we manage to get away with our lives, we can consider ourselves lucky anyway.
On Friday night I heard rumours that thousand people had been killed in Coventry and naturally disputed them, thinking it was absolutely impossible to
possible that there could be such a death toll.
On Saturday morning I got a paper.
and got the shock of my life when I saw it was all true.
As soon as finished at six thirty on Saturday, I tried to get through, but it was hopeless.
On Sunday morning I spent two hours in a telephone box, and got Coventry, but could not get in touch with you or Griffiths or anyone.
I spent two more hours on Sunday night, and still could not get through.
At last, in desperation, on Monday night, I ran Coventry Police Station, but was asked why I'd wanted the police.
Showing 41–60 of 2,989 · page 3 of 150
← Previous
Next →