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| Broadcast area | France |
| Frequencies | Constantly changing, broadcasting on mediumwave, longwave and shortwave[1] |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | French |
| Format | Propaganda |
| Affiliations | French government in London, Special Operations Executive |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | BBC European Service |
| Radio Belgique Londoner Rundfunk | |
| History | |
First air date | 19 June 1940 |
Last air date | 25 October 1944 |
Radio Londres ([ʁa.djo lɔ̃dʁ], French for "Radio London") was a radio station broadcast from 1940 to 1944 by the BBC in London to Nazi-occupied France. It was entirely in French and was operated by the Free French who had escaped from occupied France. It served not only to counter the propaganda broadcasts of German-controlled Radio Paris and the Vichy government's Radiodiffusion Nationale, but also to appeal to the French to rise up, as well as being used to send coded messages to the French Resistance.