In this article I will analyse a body of documents that shed new light on the activity of the BBC Latin American Service (LAS) during the Second World War. These documents have the potential to reveal how entertainment programmes commissioned by the Corporation to be broadcast to Latin America were used as part of propaganda campaigns, designed to counter Nazi-Fascist influence in the region. These documents consist of: the minutes of BBC LAS Propaganda Policy Committee meetings, held in the presence of the Ministry of Information (MOI) staff members; correspondence exchanged between the BBC and the MOI; as well as original radio drama scripts written in Portuguese by Brazilian journalist, novelist and playwright Antônio Callado, which were broadcast to Brazil by BBC LAS in 1943. Callado's scripts function as a case study to discuss the impact of propaganda policies in LAS entertainment programmes. KEYWORDS BBC; Second World War; propaganda; radio; Latin America; Antônio Callado In this article, I will analyse a body of documents that shed new light on the activity of the BBC Latin American Service (LAS) during the Second World War. These documents have the potential to reveal for the first time how entertainment programmes commissioned by the Corporation to be broadcast to Latin America were used as part of propaganda campaigns, designed to counter Nazi-Fascist propaganda in the region and gain sympathy for the British and the Allies. These documents consist of: the minutes of BBC LAS Propaganda Policy Committee meetings, held in the presence of the Ministry of Information (MOI) staff members; correspondence exchanged between the BBC and the MOI; as well as original radio drama scripts written in Portuguese by Brazilian journalist, novelist and playwright Antonio Callado , which were broadcast to Brazil in 1943. The aim of this article is twofold. First, I will investigate how propaganda policies developed by the MOI and the BBC LAS impacted the work of creative writers such as Callado. Secondly, I will discuss to what extent Callado managed to accommodate his literary ambitions and his own political agenda while working within the BBC/MOI anti-Nazi propaganda machine.Callado was a leading voice in the Brazilian section of LAS between 1941 and 1947, and his dramas are representative of the best productions transmitted by LAS in Portuguese during