William Joyce real name to his listeners; and he would occasionally be announced as "William Joyce, otherwise known as Lord Haw-Haw". Urban legends soon circulated about Lord Haw-Haw, alleging that the broadcaster was well-informed about political and military events to the point of near-omniscience. Although listening to his broadcasts was officially discouraged (but not illegal), many Britons heard the broadcasts. At the height of his influence, in 1940, Joyce had an estimated six million regular and 18 million occasional listeners in the United Kingdom. The broadcasts always began with the announcer's words, "Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling". These broadcasts urged the
Matthew William Joyce Matthew William Joyce Matthew William Joyce is a filmmaker, magazine editor, activist for Women's Rights, Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and Education and was born in Manly, Sydney Australia. He attended Wauchope High school excelling in athletics, music and drama and co-acted as the lead with Phil Jamieson in the school's 1994 production of "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat". After High School Joyce attended the Young Actors Studio at the National Institute of Dramatic and then studied the Journey at the Actor's Centre Australia. In 2000, Joyce appeared as a bounty hunter in "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the