After an overview of the history of early Italian radio (Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche, or EIAR), this chapter analyses another aspect of the ambiguous role played by Radio Londra. While British propaganda described Britain as a genuine and convinced supporter of the anti-fascist cause, what follows shows that British anti-fascist propaganda only really started when the British interests in the Mediterranean were at risk. Moreover, despite the anti-Italian propaganda in Arabic broadcast by the BBC from 1937, it was only with the Italian declaration of war on Britain that contacts between the BBC and EIAR stopped. Before this date, the two radio stations were constantly in touch to exchange material for use in their programmes, as the documents held at the BBC Written Archives Centre attest.An analysis of the anti-Axis programmes in the last two sections of the chapter, compared with existing literature on the Second World War, also shows how the BBC’s Italian Service contributed to the distribution of false information about the Italian army’s defeat at El Alamein at the end of 1942, as well as about Italy’s unconditional surrender. In order to win the war, it was key to persuade the Italians that they had been dragged into the war by an unreliable ally. These data are unsurprising in a war context; however, it is clearly in contrast with the BBC’s reputation as the authentic voice of the Italian Resistance and anti-fascism.