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February 11, 2015 E31 - Telling The World
February 2015
This month best-selling author, journalist and TV presenter Ben Macintyre talks to us about his latest book, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal. Ben spoke to us after his sell out talk last year in our Bletchley Park Presents lecture series. Tickets are on sale now for the 2015 talks which already includes Michael Smith, Victor Madeira, Jerry White, Taylor Downing and Sinclair Mackay, with more speakers to be announced soon.
Then we bring you this month’s main event. In The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories, best-selling author and Bletchley Park’s chief historical advisor, Michael Smith, reveals the secrets held for at least 30 years by women including a former ballerina, a convent girl and a student of German literature as well as the debutantes of the title. Seven of those stalwarts of secrecy gathered in the Mansion at Bletchley Park to tell the world’s media. Kerry Howard & Podcast Producer Mark Cotton spoke to three of them, Jean Pitt-Lewis, Margaret Mortimer and Marigold Freeman-Attwood.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #Codebreakers,
#Spy, #ColdWar
57 min
February 11, 2015 The Bletchley Park Podcast - E31 - Telling The World
February 2015
This month best-selling author, journalist and TV presenter Ben Macintyre talks to us about his latest book, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal. Ben spoke to us after his sell out talk last year in our Bletchley Park Presents lecture series. Tickets are on sale now for the 2015 talks which already includes Michael Smith, Victor Madeira, Jerry White, Taylor Downing and Sinclair Mackay, with more speakers to be announced soon.
Then we bring you this month’s main event. In The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories, best-selling author and Bletchley Park’s chief historical advisor, Michael Smith, reveals the secrets held for at least 30 years by women including a former ballerina, a convent girl and a student of German literature as well as the debutantes of the title. Seven of those stalwarts of secrecy gathered in the Mansion at Bletchley Park to tell the world’s media. Kerry Howard & Podcast Producer Mark Cotton spoke to three of them, Jean Pitt-Lewis, Margaret Mortimer and Marigold Freeman-Attwood.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #Codebreakers,
#Spy, #ColdWar
57 min
January 21, 2015 THE IMITATION GAME Oscar Nominations
January 2015
The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch
& Kiera Knightley, has been nominated for 8 Oscar’s
Best Picture
Benedict Cumberbatch for Actor in a Leading Role
Kiera Knightley for Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
Film Editing
Music (Original Score)
Production Design
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The 87th Academy Awards will be held in Los
Angeles on February the 22nd 2015.
Trailer, Music & Picture: © Black Bear Pictures/Studio Canal
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring
#ImitationGameUK, #Oscars2015
3 min
January 18, 2015 E30 - Crucial Contributions
January 2015
This month we are celebrating a cast of thousands who all made Crucial Contributions.
Back in November, the families of the three Polish codebreaking geniuses, whose work proved invaluable in the breaking of Enigma, visited Bletchley Park.
We take a look ahead at what’s new in 2015 with Bletchley Park’s Director of Learning and Collections, Victoria Worpole.
A memorial plaque has been unveiled at the site of Bletchley Park’s largest outstation at Eastcote, where Bombe machines were housed & operated by over 800 Wrens during WW2. There representing Bletchley Park were Oral History Officer Jonathan Byrne and Podcast producer Mark Cotton. After the ceremony, they chatted about what’s been a bumper year for the oral history project.
Finally this month, listen in to when we took Bletchley Park Veteran Rozanne Colchester into the newly renovated Hut 6 for the very first time.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring,
#ImitationGameUK, #PolishCodebreakers
59 min
January 18, 2015 The Bletchley Park Podcast - E30 - Crucial Contributions
January 2015
This month we are celebrating a cast of thousands who all made Crucial Contributions.
Back in November, the families of the three Polish codebreaking geniuses, whose work proved invaluable in the breaking of Enigma, visited Bletchley Park.
We take a look ahead at what’s new in 2015 with Bletchley Park’s Director of Learning and Collections, Victoria Worpole.
A memorial plaque has been unveiled at the site of Bletchley Park’s largest outstation at Eastcote, where Bombe machines were housed & operated by over 800 Wrens during WW2. There representing Bletchley Park were Oral History Officer Jonathan Byrne and Podcast producer Mark Cotton. After the ceremony, they chatted about what’s been a bumper year for the oral history project.
Finally this month, listen in to when we took Bletchley Park Veteran Rozanne Colchester into the newly renovated Hut 6 for the very first time.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring,
#ImitationGameUK, #PolishCodebreakers
59 min
December 23, 2014 Extra - E42 - 2014 Christmas Special
December 2014
Bletchley Park Podcast – 2014 Christmas Special.
2014 has been a landmark year at Bletchley
Park. It’s seen the transformation of the site,
returning it to its wartime glory with phase
one of the restorations. Royalty returned with
not one but two Veterans in the family this time,
and the stranger than fiction story of Alan Turing
hit the silver screen.
Join podcast host Katherine and producer Mark
as they take you on a virtual trip around the
park and back through the year to hear Royalty,
Hollywood Stars and of course lots of our
wonderful Veterans.
Many thanks to The Three Belles for the use
of their music. Their charity single for The
Royal British Legion can be purchased here:
http://thethreebelles.com/christmas-single
Thanks to everyone who took part in our show
this year and thank you to our listeners. We will
be back in the New Year with more stories from
The Home of The Code Breakers and wish you
all, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.
Picture: ©mcfontaine
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring,
#ImitationGameUK, #TheThreeBelles
1 hr
December 23, 2014 Bletchley Park Podcast Extra - E42 - 2014 Christmas Special
December 2014
Bletchley Park Podcast – 2014 Christmas Special.
2014 has been a landmark year at Bletchley
Park. It’s seen the transformation of the site,
returning it to its wartime glory with phase
one of the restorations. Royalty returned with
not one but two Veterans in the family this time,
and the stranger than fiction story of Alan Turing
hit the silver screen.
Join podcast host Katherine and producer Mark
as they take you on a virtual trip around the
park and back through the year to hear Royalty,
Hollywood Stars and of course lots of our
wonderful Veterans.
Many thanks to The Three Belles for the use
of their music. Their charity single for The
Royal British Legion can be purchased here:
http://thethreebelles.com/christmas-single
Thanks to everyone who took part in our show
this year and thank you to our listeners. We will
be back in the New Year with more stories from
The Home of The Code Breakers and wish you
all, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.
Picture: ©mcfontaine
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring,
#ImitationGameUK, #TheThreeBelles
1 hr
December 15, 2014 Help Bletchley Park hit 200,000 visitors in 2014
December 2014
It’s been an extraordinary year at Bletchley Park
and the icing on the cake would be to reach a
record-breaking attendance level of 200,000
visitors before 31 December 2014.
We can do it with the help of our listeners.
The 200,000th visitor will be celebrated with
prizes and greetings from Bletchley Park VIPs.
Picture: ©mcfontaine
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring,
#ImitationGame
3 min
December 11, 2014 E29 - Ghosts of Bletchley Park
December 2014
This month we again have more exclusive
content for you from The Imitation Game.
Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Alan
Turing in the film, tells us about how nerve
wracking, special and even ghostly it was
filming scenes at Bletchley Park.
We also take you to the opening of The
Imitation Game, The Exhibition, which was
held at the Home of The Codebreakers with
a special screening of the film. BBC 3 Counties
Jane Killick and our own roving podcast reporter
Astrid Specht speak to some of the guests at
the black-tie event, including David Broder,
location manager on The Imitation Game and
a long time champion of Bletchley Park.
The Turing Test is an underlying theme of the
film and it’s still confounding computer
scientists to this day. For more than two
decades Dr Hugh Loebner has turned that
into a competition which for the second time
was hosted at Bletchley Park. We find out
why it is still important today from the
organisers and one of the judges, BBC TV’s
James May.
Finally this month we hear from Veteran
Kathleen Wing, an Intercept Operator from
1944 to 45, who caught up with researcher,
author and roving podcast reporter Kerry
Howard, at the 2014 Veterans’ Reunion.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring,
#ImitationGameUK, #LoebnerPrize , #AISB
1 hr
December 11, 2014 The Bletchley Park Podcast - E29 - Ghosts of Bletchley Park
December 2014
This month we again have more exclusive
content for you from The Imitation Game.
Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Alan
Turing in the film, tells us about how nerve
wracking, special and even ghostly it was
filming scenes at Bletchley Park.
We also take you to the opening of The
Imitation Game, The Exhibition, which was
held at the Home of The Codebreakers with
a special screening of the film. BBC 3 Counties
Jane Killick and our own roving podcast reporter
Astrid Specht speak to some of the guests at
the black-tie event, including David Broder,
location manager on The Imitation Game and
a long time champion of Bletchley Park.
The Turing Test is an underlying theme of the
film and it’s still confounding computer
scientists to this day. For more than two
decades Dr Hugh Loebner has turned that
into a competition which for the second time
was hosted at Bletchley Park. We find out
why it is still important today from the
organisers and one of the judges, BBC TV’s
James May.
Finally this month we hear from Veteran
Kathleen Wing, an Intercept Operator from
1944 to 45, who caught up with researcher,
author and roving podcast reporter Kerry
Howard, at the 2014 Veterans’ Reunion.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring,
#ImitationGameUK, #LoebnerPrize , #AISB
1 hr

About Bletchley Park

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Bletchley Park is the home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict. The site is now a museum and heritage attraction, open daily.