Commons:Featured media candidates/File:Winston Churchill - Be Ye Men of Valour.ogg

File:Winston Churchill - Be Ye Men of Valour.ogg, featured, featured

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File Location Description - Radio recording of Winston Churchill's 1940 speech "Be ye men of valour"

Category: Commons:Featured sounds/Historical recordings
Info OK, this might be a bit controversial because the bitrate is considerably below the minimum standard. That said, I would like to propose that for irreplaceable historical recordings like this certainly is, we should make an exception, since we should consider ourselves lucky to have a recording of something so important that's decent quality and perfectly listenable. It's a recording of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's 1940 radio broadcast "Be Ye Men of Valour", made to the British nation during Hitler's advances in France. I won't be at all offended if you say no, but I think we probably need to have the conversation about whether the standards should be lower for historical recordings, especially if they have the wow-factor that this does. - Uploaded to commons by TeleComNasSprVen - nominated by Cmao20 -- Cmao20 (talk) 11:12, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Cmao20 (talk) 11:12, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Please do not oppose due to low bitrate, it does not apply to it (Historical recordings) -- Eatcha (Talk-Page) 11:38, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support, this is very interesting for me, not native speaker, to listen and to read this text: s:Be Ye Men of Valour. --Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 11:39, 20 May 2019 (UTC) P.S. There is s:Portal:Audio recordings, we can use audio from Wikisource for this FS project. --Andrew Krizhanovsky (talk) 11:53, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Vulp here 16:38, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Given that there is only human speech (no background music or other non-vocal sounds) in this recording (and each person’s voice does not encompass a huge bandwidth of frequencies), I believe the low bitrate is sufficient enough to capture the whole speech without seriously compromising its understandability. The 128-kbps minimum is only required for music and other sounds that cover very wide frequency spectra – which may not be reliably picked up with low bitrates; but here this is not the case. ‐⁠‑🌀⁠SilSinn^AL982100⁠💬 22:57, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support ― Gerifalte _Del Sabana 23:33, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support - This makes for riveting listening today, in an echo of the past. Support per others and because of its importance, impact at the time and continued power today. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:10, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Question isn't this one of those things where the UK Government claims Churchill's family owns the Copyright to his speeches? Even though that'sa patently ridiculous without specific act of law? Adam Cuerden (talk) 04:14, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Abzeronow (talk) 15:48, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:
Result: 8 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Eatcha (talk) 15:00, 5 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This media will be added to the FM gallery: Historical