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November 01, 2014 E28 - Benedict Cumberbatch on Bletchley Park
November 2014
With only a couple of weeks till the UK release
of THE IMITATION GAME, we can now bring
you more exclusive interviews with the cast
and crew.
Our roving reporter Astrid Specht braved the
rain with patient fans at The Odeon Leicester
Square for the London Film Festival premiere
last month.
Podcast host Katherine Lynch sits down with
Director Morton Tyldum, screen writer Graham
Moore and actors Allen Leech and Matthew
Beard.
We also bring you what was a very special
moment for all of us at Bletchley Park, when
Katherine sat down to start her interview with
the star of the film, Benedict Cumberbatch
(hear all this interview next month).
Finally, when Bletchley Park Historian and
Guide, Joel Greenberg recently gave a talk on
his biography of Gordon Welchman, there was
a very special guest in attendance. Lord Asa
Briggs served at Bletchley Park from 1942 till
1945, working with Welchman in Hut 6 and
then later in Block D. He spoke to the sold out
audience about his time at the Government
Code & Cypher School and then sat down with
us for a reflective conversation.
For more information on becoming a Friend of
Bletchley Park go to:
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/support/friends.rhtm
Trailer, Music & Picture: © Black Bear Pictures/Studio Canal
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring,
#ImitationGameUK
47 min
November 01, 2014 The Bletchley Park Podcast - E28 - Benedict Cumberbatch on Bletchley Park
November 2014
With only a couple of weeks till the UK release
of THE IMITATION GAME, we can now bring
you more exclusive interviews with the cast
and crew.
Our roving reporter Astrid Specht braved the
rain with patient fans at The Odeon Leicester
Square for the London Film Festival premiere
last month.
Podcast host Katherine Lynch sits down with
Director Morton Tyldum, screen writer Graham
Moore and actors Allen Leech and Matthew
Beard.
We also bring you what was a very special
moment for all of us at Bletchley Park, when
Katherine sat down to start her interview with
the star of the film, Benedict Cumberbatch
(hear all this interview next month).
Finally, when Bletchley Park Historian and
Guide, Joel Greenberg recently gave a talk on
his biography of Gordon Welchman, there was
a very special guest in attendance. Lord Asa
Briggs served at Bletchley Park from 1942 till
1945, working with Welchman in Hut 6 and
then later in Block D. He spoke to the sold out
audience about his time at the Government
Code & Cypher School and then sat down with
us for a reflective conversation.
For more information on becoming a Friend of
Bletchley Park go to:
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/support/friends.rhtm
Trailer, Music & Picture: © Black Bear Pictures/Studio Canal
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring,
#ImitationGameUK
47 min
October 13, 2014 E27 - From The Red Carpet
October 2014
This month we come to you from the red carpet at
The Odeon Leicester Square for the premiere of
THE IMITATION GAME. The movie based on the
life and work of Codebreaker Alan Turing was
picked to open the prestigious 2014 BFI London
Film Festival.
To celebrate the film’s release in UK cinemas on
the 14th of November, Bletchley Park will open
a major new exhibition, taking visitors behind the
scenes of this highly anticipated movie. We’ll bring
you more on that next month, now, though, we can
bring you exclusive behind the scenes interviews
recorded during filming in the Mansion at Bletchley
Park in late 2013.
We first spoke to two members of the Turing family.
Dermot Turing is a Bletchley Park Trustee as well as
being Alan Turing’s nephew. His son, James, signed
up as a supporting actor - once known as extras, for
the film .We chatted to them both about what it was
like to be involved in a film about the famous relative
they’re both too young to have ever met.
Then, screen writer Graham Moore and executive
producer Teddy Schwarzmann somehow managed
to find time in the busy schedule of filming to sit
down with us to talk about how they first discovered
Alan’s story and wanted to bring it to the world.
Finally this month, as always, we bring you an
interview with a real Bletchley Park Veteran. Dot
Tuffin was a Bombe Wren based first at Eastcote
and later posted to Colombo. When she visited the
newly restored buildings at the Veterans’ preview
in May, the memories came flooding back.
For more information about The Turing Trust
www.turingtrust.co.uk
Trailer, Music & Picture: © Black Bear Pictures/Studio Canal
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring,
#theimitationgame
50 min
October 13, 2014 The Bletchley Park Podcast - E27 - From The Red Carpet
October 2014
This month we come to you from the red carpet at
The Odeon Leicester Square for the premiere of
THE IMITATION GAME. The movie based on the
life and work of Codebreaker Alan Turing was
picked to open the prestigious 2014 BFI London
Film Festival.
To celebrate the film’s release in UK cinemas on
the 14th of November, Bletchley Park will open
a major new exhibition, taking visitors behind the
scenes of this highly anticipated movie. We’ll bring
you more on that next month, now, though, we can
bring you exclusive behind the scenes interviews
recorded during filming in the Mansion at Bletchley
Park in late 2013.
We first spoke to two members of the Turing family.
Dermot Turing is a Bletchley Park Trustee as well as
being Alan Turing’s nephew. His son, James, signed
up as a supporting actor - once known as extras, for
the film .We chatted to them both about what it was
like to be involved in a film about the famous relative
they’re both too young to have ever met.
Then, screen writer Graham Moore and executive
producer Teddy Schwarzmann somehow managed
to find time in the busy schedule of filming to sit
down with us to talk about how they first discovered
Alan’s story and wanted to bring it to the world.
Finally this month, as always, we bring you an
interview with a real Bletchley Park Veteran. Dot
Tuffin was a Bombe Wren based first at Eastcote
and later posted to Colombo. When she visited the
newly restored buildings at the Veterans’ preview
in May, the memories came flooding back.
For more information about The Turing Trust
www.turingtrust.co.uk
Trailer, Music & Picture: © Black Bear Pictures/Studio Canal
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring,
#theimitationgame
50 min
October 09, 2014 THE IMITATION GAME at Bletchley Park
October 2014
To celebrate the release of THE IMITATION GAME
in UK cinemas on 14 November, Bletchley Park will
open a major new exhibition, taking visitors behind
the scenes of the highly anticipated movie. The
exhibition will open on Tuesday 4 November with
an exclusive preview screening of the film for a
select audience at Bletchley Park. The same
evening, this vibrant heritage attraction will preview
a major new exhibition all about the making of the
film, in the very room where the bar scenes were
filmed.
Sarah Kay, Bletchley Park’s Digitisation and
Exhibitions Officer, says “THE IMITATION GAME
at Bletchley Park Exhibition is an opportunity to
not only provide our existing audiences the
chance to see some of the film’s set dressing
and some of the fantastic objects and documents
created by the film’s art department. It is also an
opportunity for us to reach new audiences of film
fans who otherwise may not be familiar with the
secret wartime work of Alan Turing and the
thousands of other heroes who undertook arguably
the most important work of the their lives.
“The making of the film will send the history of
Bletchley Park worldwide with such incredibly
impressive and intense performances by some of
Britain's most elite actors. Bletchley Park is incredibly
proud of what the filmmakers and actors were able
to achieve.”
During the filming we spoke to the producer Teddy
Schwarzman & the screenplay writer Graham Moore.
We will bring you the full interview & many more
Exclusives in future episodes of The Bletchley Park
Podcast.
Trailer, Music & Picture: © Black Bear Pictures/Studio Canal
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #LFF2014,
4 min
October 01, 2014 Extra - E41 - Codebreakers’ Legacy - Joel Greenberg
September 2014
In this final highlight from last year’s sell-out day of talks,
Codebreakers’ Legacy, Dr. Joel Greenberg talks about
the vitally important work of another lesser known figure
from GC&CS, Gordon Welchman.
Welchman designed changes to Alan Turing’s Bombe
Machine which was used throughout the war to find the
daily settings for Enigma. He also drew up the
organisational plan for Bletchley Park which ultimately
would enable it to become a “Codebreaking Factory”.
Joel is a Guide & Historian at Bletchley Park & undertook
with the support of the Welchman family to write his
biography; Gordon Welchman Bletchley Park's Architect
of Ultra Intelligence which are available to buy at
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/shop/p.rhtm/130822/764256-GordonWelchmanBletchleyParksArchitectofUltraIntelligenceJoel_Greenberg.html
If you would like to attend a similar event at Bletchley Park,
then please go to http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ & look
in the What’s On section.
The world's only fully-operational Bombe rebuild can be seen
at Bletchley Park.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#podcastday, #BPark, #BletchleyPark,
#Enigma, #WW2, #codebreaker,
#mcfontaine,
36 min
October 01, 2014 Bletchley Park Podcast Extra - E41 - Codebreakers’ Legacy - Joel Greenberg
September 2014
In this final highlight from last year’s sell-out day of talks,
Codebreakers’ Legacy, Dr. Joel Greenberg talks about
the vitally important work of another lesser known figure
from GC&CS, Gordon Welchman.
Welchman designed changes to Alan Turing’s Bombe
Machine which was used throughout the war to find the
daily settings for Enigma. He also drew up the
organisational plan for Bletchley Park which ultimately
would enable it to become a “Codebreaking Factory”.
Joel is a Guide & Historian at Bletchley Park & undertook
with the support of the Welchman family to write his
biography; Gordon Welchman Bletchley Park's Architect
of Ultra Intelligence which are available to buy at
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/shop/p.rhtm/130822/764256-Gordon_Welchman_Bletchley_Parks_Architect_of_Ultra_Intelligence_Joel_Greenberg.html
If you would like to attend a similar event at Bletchley Park,
then please go to http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ & look
in the What’s On section.
The world's only fully-operational Bombe rebuild can be seen
at Bletchley Park.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#podcastday, #BPark, #BletchleyPark,
#Enigma, #WW2, #codebreaker,
#mcfontaine,
36 min
September 23, 2014 Hurricane Fly Past at Bletchley Park
September 2014
As part of our annual Veteran’s Reunion this year
there was a fly past by a Hurricane of the RAF’s
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
14,533 Hurricanes had been built by the end of
World War 2, but sadly, today, there are only 12
still airworthy worldwide; only 6 of those in UK.
The BBMF is proud to operate two of these
historically important and rare aircraft.
For more information on The BBMF please go to http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/
The beautiful picture accompanying this clip was
taken by Bletchley Park’s official photographer
Shaun Armstrong.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #BBMF, #Hurricane,
#Merlin, #WW2Planes
2 min
September 15, 2014 E26 - Walking Among Them
September 2014
This month we bring you a special episode of the Bletchley Park Podcast, from the Annual Veterans' Reunion.
2014 is a landmark year for Bletchley Park, marking not only 75th anniversary of the Government Code and Cypher School getting its vital war work underway, but also the completion of £8 million worth of much-needed restoration, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. At this year’s reunion many of the Veterans saw those renovations for the first time.
Bletchley Park's CEO, Iain Standen, brings the Veterans up to date on the work that's been carried out in phase one of the restoration of Bletchley Park and answers their questions about the future of the place that's so precious to them.
We also talk to the official Bletchley Park photographer, Shaun Armstrong, about capturing history in the making. He's documented the entire restoration, Project Neptune, over the last two years and photographed one or two members of the Royal family along the way.
Podcast Producer Mark Cotton and Roving Reporters Kerry Howard and Astrid Specht were also at large at this year's Reunion, talking to visitors as well as the most important guests, the Veterans themselves.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
See more about Shaun's experience of photographing the Duchess of Cambridge and work at Bletchley Park at
https://mubstablog.com/2014/06/24/hrh-the-duchess-of-cambridge-bletchley-park/
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran,
#enigma, #Turing
56 min
September 15, 2014 The Bletchley Park Podcast - E26 - Walking Among Them
September 2014
This month we bring you a special episode of the Bletchley Park Podcast, from the Annual Veterans' Reunion.
2014 is a landmark year for Bletchley Park, marking not only 75th anniversary of the Government Code and Cypher School getting its vital war work underway, but also the completion of £8 million worth of much-needed restoration, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. At this year’s reunion many of the Veterans saw those renovations for the first time.
Bletchley Park's CEO, Iain Standen, brings the Veterans up to date on the work that's been carried out in phase one of the restoration of Bletchley Park and answers their questions about the future of the place that's so precious to them.
We also talk to the official Bletchley Park photographer, Shaun Armstrong, about capturing history in the making. He's documented the entire restoration, Project Neptune, over the last two years and photographed one or two members of the Royal family along the way.
Podcast Producer Mark Cotton and Roving Reporters Kerry Howard and Astrid Specht were also at large at this year's Reunion, talking to visitors as well as the most important guests, the Veterans themselves.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
See more about Shaun's experience of photographing the Duchess of Cambridge and work at Bletchley Park at
https://mubstablog.com/2014/06/24/hrh-the-duchess-of-cambridge-bletchley-park/
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran,
#enigma, #Turing
56 min

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.