>> From: Jonathan Schwarz <jonathan.schwarz2 at verizon.net>
>
>> Has it ever been decisively settled whether or not some of the recordings
>> of his most famous speeches were performed by an actor (supposedly because
>> Churchill himself was too busy)?
>
> Must have been difficult to do. Churchill had a pretty distinctive speech
> impediment.
There's some fairly recent discussion of whether Norman Shelley (better known for being the voice of Winnie The Pooh) recorded some of the speeches here <http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/07/letters.htm>, in response to a Christopher Hitchens piece on Churchill in The Atlantic.
Chris