Complex sentence: There was also a desire by civilian listeners to hear what the other side was saying, since information during wartime was strictly censored; and, at the start of the war, it was possible for German broadcasts to be more informative than those of the BBC.
Split into simpler sentences: There was also a desire by civilian listeners to hear what the other side was saying, since information during wartime was strictly censored. At the start of the war, it was possible for German broadcasts to be more informative than those of the BBC.