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# Market Place: Where the BBC's Voice Reached Across the Atlantic Standing at Market Place and gazing up at this modest building, you're looking at the nerve center of British resistance during the darkest hours of World War II. From June 1942 until November 1957, this unremarkable address housed t...

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British Broadcasting Corporation 1942 - 1957 From June 1942 for fifteen years. this building was the headquarters of the B.B.C. overseas services during the war direct broadcasts were made to America from the roof while air-raids were in progress. The B.B.C. vacated the premises in November 1957