This article focuses on the centrality and the importance of food to wartime radio propaganda, a subject thus far overlooked by scholars. It investigates how the BBC French Service and Vichy addressed the growing challenges of food production and supply in occupied France, each of them competing hard to gain control of discourses about food in a climate of shortage. It examines their respective blame games, as each side held its enemies responsible for France’s food woes. It also considers how both the French Service and Vichy mobilized food issues to speak to the French on trickier questions of national unity and solidarity at a time of domestic crisis, and assesses the problems they faced as they tried to square their claims with the experiences of the wider public. The article thereby offers a fresh understanding of the lived experience of the Occupation and deeper insight into the functioning of wartime radio propaganda.

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争论的欲望：被占领法国的广播宣传和食物

本文重点介绍食物对战时广播宣传的中心地位和重要性，这是一个迄今为止被学者们忽视的主题。它调查了 BBC 法语服务和维希如何应对被占领的法国日益增长的食品生产和供应挑战，他们每个人都在努力竞争，以在短缺的气氛中控制有关食品的话语。它检查了他们各自的指责游戏，因为每一方都认为其敌人对法国的粮食问题负责。它还考虑了法国服务和维希如何动员食品问题与法国人在国内危机时期就民族团结和团结的棘手问题与法国人交谈，并评估他们在试图将自己的主张与他们的经验相吻合时所面临的问题。更广泛的公众。