Lord Haw-Haw Lord Haw-Haw Lord Haw-Haw was a nickname applied to the Irish-American William Joyce, who broadcast Nazi propaganda to Britain from Germany during the Second World War. The broadcasts opened with "Germany calling, Germany calling", spoken in an affected upper-class English accent. The same nickname was also applied to some other broadcasters of English language propaganda from Germany, but it is Joyce with whom the name is now overwhelmingly identified. There are various theories about its origin. The English language propaganda radio programme "Germany Calling" was broadcast to audiences in the United Kingdom on the medium wave station Reichssender Hamburg and
Joyce Hatto Joyce Hatto Joyce Hilda Hatto (5 September 1928 – 29 June 2006) was an English concert pianist and piano teacher. Married in 1956 to William Barrington-Coupe, a record producer convicted of purchase tax evasion in 1966, Hatto became famous very late in life when unauthorised copies of commercial recordings made by other pianists were released under her name, earning her high praise from critics. The fraud did not come to light until a few months after her death. Joyce Hatto was born in St John's Wood, London. Her father was an antique dealer and piano enthusiast. As a promising young