I got some more insights into Anne's life during the war from a somewhat surprising source, the very popular YouTube user, geriatric1927, who was born a year after Margot Frank, and two years before Anne Frank, but is British.
    In Telling it all part 20, Peter explains that in those days wireless radios ran on energy from a very clunky acid battery, about 6" long that you had to take somewhere for recharging. Recharging was a pretty expensive service, so people in those days used the radio very little. He explains how they had little access to information compared to today, that information would trickle in over time, too. This explains to me how it was that everyone in the annexe gathered around the radio every night, but only for a very brief and pre-agreed amount of time.
    In Telling it all part 21, Peter tells how scary it was to be in an area being bombed. He was 14 at the time, living in the north of London and his neighborhood was bombed for three nights in a row. It was so scary that even today the recorded sounds of low flying bombers and air raid sirens send chills into him. Anne described many such nights in her diary, so it was not just three nights for her. And she was in an old wood house, not in an sturdy metal backyard air raid shelter. But one experience he had that Anne didn't was a giant unexploded bomb out back, bigger than a beer keg. At any rate, you see in this man's face and pauses just how frightening air raids were, something Anne could not convey in quite the same way on paper, though she did explain she was so scared she'd pointlessly clutch her emergency bag and/or run to her father.