FDR Fireside Chat

Christmas Eve Worldwide Broadcast

English · Radio, Politics, War & Military

In this Christmas Eve fireside chat, President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to listeners across the country and around the world. The broadcast offers a direct encounter with Roosevelt’s voice and public address, framed by the occasion of Christmas Eve in 1943.

Fireside chats were radio addresses in which Roosevelt spoke to the American public in a conversational style, bringing matters of national importance into listeners’ homes. This broadcast’s worldwide reach gives the address a broader wartime setting, while its Christmas Eve timing lends the occasion a reflective character.

Listeners can hear a piece of wartime radio history in its original spoken form: a presidential address shaped for the intimacy of radio and delivered on a significant holiday evening.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.