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September 04, 2014 Veterans’ Reunion marks 75th Anniversary of Bletchley Park
September 2014
As well as marking the 75th anniversary of the
Government Code and Cypher School getting its
vital war work underway, this year’s annual
Veterans’ Reunion will give many their first chance
to see how Bletchley Park has been transformed.
2014 is a landmark year for the Bletchley Park
Trust, marking not only 75 years since the
Codebreakers got cracking on the task of
breaking enemy codes and ciphers, but also
the completion of a much-needed £8 million
restoration project, supported by the Heritage
Lottery Fund.
At this year’s Veterans’ Reunion, many former
workers of the Government Code and Cypher
School will see the new Block C Visitor Centre,
lovingly restored Codebreaking Huts 3 and 6 and
the reinstated landscaped parkland for the first time.
Visitors too can experience the World War Two
atmosphere and feel what it was like for the
thousands of men and women whose work at
Bletchley Park and its outstations helped shorten
the war, saving countless lives. On Sunday the 7th
of September, they will have the rare opportunity
to walk among some of those extraordinary men
and women.
By the time the Codebreakers arrived at Bletchley
Park in 1939, a small number of Huts had already
been built among the existing buildings on this
Victorian country estate. The first delegation,
codenamed Captain Ridley’s Shooting Party, had
spent around a month setting up communications
on the site in 1938.
Picture: ©Bletchley Park Trust
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran, #enigma
7 min
September 02, 2014 Extra - E40 - Codebreakers’ Legacy – Jack Copeland
September 2014
Professor Jack Copeland talks about ‘one of his greatest
heroes’ Tommy Flowers, from his early life & career leading
to working with the Bletchley Park Codebreakers.
Jack explains the task faced when in mid-1942 the German
High Command started to use a new encryption device, the
Lorenz SZ40/42. The attack on Tunny, as it was dubbed by
GC&CS, would involve some of the greatest codebreakers we
had, Alan Turing, Bill Tutte & Max Newman.
It would culminate in Tommy’s greatest achievement, the
invention of Colossus, the world's first programmable
electronic digital computer.
The world would never be the same again.
This talk was recorded at last year’s sell-out day of talks,
Codebreakers’ Legacy. If you would like to attend a similar
event in the Bletchley Park Presents series, then please go to
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ & look in the What’s On
section.
A rebuild of Colossus can be seen at The National Museum
of Computing, a separate site on the grounds of Bletchley
Park.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma,
#Tunny, #WW2, #codebreaker,
#mcfontaine, #TNMOC
45 min
September 02, 2014 Bletchley Park Podcast Extra - E40 - Codebreakers’ Legacy – Jack Copeland
September 2014
Professor Jack Copeland talks about ‘one of his greatest
heroes’ Tommy Flowers, from his early life & career leading
to working with the Bletchley Park Codebreakers.
Jack explains the task faced when in mid-1942 the German
High Command started to use a new encryption device, the
Lorenz SZ40/42. The attack on Tunny, as it was dubbed by
GC&CS, would involve some of the greatest codebreakers we
had, Alan Turing, Bill Tutte & Max Newman.
It would culminate in Tommy’s greatest achievement, the
invention of Colossus, the world's first programmable
electronic digital computer.
The world would never be the same again.
This talk was recorded at last year’s sell-out day of talks,
Codebreakers’ Legacy. If you would like to attend a similar
event in the Bletchley Park Presents series, then please go to
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ & look in the What’s On
section.
A rebuild of Colossus can be seen at The National Museum
of Computing, a separate site on the grounds of Bletchley
Park.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma,
#Tunny, #WW2, #codebreaker,
#mcfontaine, #TNMOC
45 min
August 17, 2014 Extra - E39 - Gwendoline Page
August 2014
In July, as part of the Bletchley Park Presents series of
talks, four women whose diverse roles within the
Government Code & Cypher School during World War
Two give a rare insight into the inner workings of this
top secret organisation.
One of those women was WREN Gwendoline Page who
worked first in the Naval Section at Bletchley Park,
indexing U-boat signals & later on the Japanese vessels
index based in Colombo.
After her talk, at the end of a very long day, she was
still kind enough to sit down with us to tell our listeners
more about her service.
Two of Gwendoline’s books, "We Kept the Secret" and
"They Listened in Secret" are available from the
Bletchley Park Shop.
https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/shop/p.rhtm/130822/765789-WeKepttheSecretGwendoline_Page.html
https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/shop/p.rhtm/130822/238204-TheyListenedInSecretByGwendolinePage.html
Picture: ©Gwendoline Page / Bletchley Park Trust
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran, #enigma
20 min
August 17, 2014 Bletchley Park Podcast Extra - E39 - Gwendoline Page
August 2014
In July, as part of the Bletchley Park Presents series of
talks, four women whose diverse roles within the
Government Code & Cypher School during World War
Two give a rare insight into the inner workings of this
top secret organisation.
One of those women was WREN Gwendoline Page who
worked first in the Naval Section at Bletchley Park,
indexing U-boat signals & later on the Japanese vessels
index based in Colombo.
After her talk, at the end of a very long day, she was
still kind enough to sit down with us to tell our listeners
more about her service.
Two of Gwendoline’s books, "We Kept the Secret" and
"They Listened in Secret" are available from the
Bletchley Park Shop.
https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/shop/p.rhtm/130822/765789-We_Kept_the_Secret_Gwendoline_Page.html
https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/shop/p.rhtm/130822/238204-They_Listened_In_Secret_By_Gwendoline_Page.html
Picture: ©Gwendoline Page / Bletchley Park Trust
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran, #enigma
20 min
August 10, 2014E25 - Inspiring Women
August 2014
This month’s episode is all about Inspiring Women.
We first take you to the launch of McAfee’s Cyber Security Exhibition and Computer Learning Zone which was held in the ballroom. The focus is on Online Safety for all ages, but especially children, as well as encouraging more women
to Cyber Security. We have highlights of the speeches from McAffee’s Ross Allen & Raj Samani, Natalie Black of The Cabinet Office & Bletchley Park Trust Chairman Sir John Scalett, as well as interviews with our own Online Education Officer Nicola Halls & Veteran Betty Webb. You can find out more at https://www.workingwithbletchleypark.co.uk/
Next we bring you a Q&A session held at the end of our most recent Bletchley Park Presents Event – The Real Women of Bletchley Park. Historian & Bletchley Park guide Bob Horner, put questions from the sell-out audience to four Veterans, Ruth Bourne, Gwendolyn Page, Jean Valentine & Betty Webb.
Finally we bring you a truly serendipitous & heart-warming conversation between the Architect who led the restoration of Bletchley Park and the Hut 6 Veteran who inspired her. Architect Janie Price literally bumped into Veteran Jane Fawcett during the recent visit of HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. Jane was Janie’s tutor in building conservation at the Architectural Association and was an expert in historic flooring.
A message from mcfontaine *
The sound on The Real Women Package is not up to our usual high quality due to a technical problem that was completely out of our control on the day, but we have improved it as much as possible & felt we should include it because of the importance of the content. We hope it doesn’t spoil your enjoyment.
Picture: Janie Price meeting HRH The Duchess of Cambridge ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
In memory of Jane Fawcett, who passed away on 21 May 2016.
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran, #enigma,
#McAfee, #cyberhero
59 min
August 10, 2014 The Bletchley Park Podcast - E25 - Inspiring Women
August 2014
This month’s episode is all about Inspiring Women.
We first take you to the launch of McAfee’s Cyber Security Exhibition and Computer Learning Zone which was held in the ballroom. The focus is on Online Safety for all ages, but especially children, as well as encouraging more women
to Cyber Security. We have highlights of the speeches from McAffee’s Ross Allen & Raj Samani, Natalie Black of The Cabinet Office & Bletchley Park Trust Chairman Sir John Scalett, as well as interviews with our own Online Education Officer Nicola Halls & Veteran Betty Webb. You can find out more at https://www.workingwithbletchleypark.co.uk/
Next we bring you a Q&A session held at the end of our most recent Bletchley Park Presents Event – The Real Women of Bletchley Park. Historian & Bletchley Park guide Bob Horner, put questions from the sell-out audience to four Veterans, Ruth Bourne, Gwendolyn Page, Jean Valentine & Betty Webb.
Finally we bring you a truly serendipitous & heart-warming conversation between the Architect who led the restoration of Bletchley Park and the Hut 6 Veteran who inspired her. Architect Janie Price literally bumped into Veteran Jane Fawcett during the recent visit of HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. Jane was Janie’s tutor in building conservation at the Architectural Association and was an expert in historic flooring.
* A message from mcfontaine *
The sound on The Real Women Package is not up to our usual high quality due to a technical problem that was completely out of our control on the day, but we have improved it as much as possible & felt we should include it because of the importance of the content. We hope it doesn’t spoil your enjoyment.
Picture: Janie Price meeting HRH The Duchess of Cambridge ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
In memory of Jane Fawcett, who passed away on 21 May 2016.
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran, #enigma,
#McAfee, #cyberhero
59 min
August 03, 2014 Signals Intelligence in World War One
August 2014
As the centenary of World War One is marked, Bletchley
Park looks back at the early intelligence career of one of
its lesser-known geniuses.
In this extract, recorded at the Codebreaker’s Legacy Talks
in November 2013, bestselling author and Bletchley Park
Trustee Michael Smith charts the World War One service
of John Tiltman, Bletchley Park's Chief Cryptographer, who
was awarded the Military Cross fighting in the trenches.
After being badly wounded in the Battle of Arras he
transferred to military intelligence beginning a brilliant
codebreaking career that was to last more than sixty years.
Bletchley Park became the World War Two home of the
Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which
was formed shortly after the allied armistice with Germany
in November 1919. GC&CS was the outcome of a merger
between the two significant codebreaking and signals
intelligence departments of the then recent war: Room 40
or I.D. 25 (part of Naval Intelligence located within the
Admiralty) and MI1(b) (a sub-section of Military
Intelligence located within the War Office). A number of
individuals who played important roles in codebreaking
during World War One, went on to perform prominent roles
at Bletchley Park during World War Two, such as Alastair
Denniston, Dilly Knox, Frank Birch, Oliver Strachey, and
Nigel de Grey.
The great accomplishments of the GC&CS during World
War Two owe a great deal to the first official government
codebreaking and signals intelligence departments that
were established just after the outbreak of World War One.
This story will be explored in an exciting new exhibition due
to open in 2015 co-sponsored by BAE Systems Applied
Intelligence and Ultra Electronics.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #WW1centenary
6 min
July 24, 2014 Pyry Forest Meeting - 75th Anniversary
July 2014
On 26 and 27 July 1939 one of the most important events
in the history of intelligence took place in the woods outside
Warsaw. Just three weeks before the Government Code
and Cypher School (GC&CS) moved to its War Station at
Bletchley Park, its Head, Alastair Denniston, and its Chief
Cryptanalyst, Dilly Knox, travelled to Warsaw to meet
their Polish and French equivalents to share all they
knew about Enigma.
At a commemorative ceremony in Warsaw held earlier
this month, BBC Security Correspondent, Gordon
Corera spoke to the GCHQ Departmental Historian,
on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme.
Many thanks to the BBC for letting us share this interview.
Gordon’s original article can be found at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28167071
Picture: GC&CS Commander Alastair Denniston’s
passport shows he travelled through Nazi Germany
to the meeting in Poland and is on display in his office
in the Mansion at Bletchley Park. ©Bletchley Park Trust
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #enigma
5 min
July 17, 2014 Extra - E38 - Lady Marion Body
July 2014
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge visited Bletchley
Park on the 18th of June to mark the officially opening
of the 8.5 million pound restorations, but she also
had a much more personal reason for her visit as
both her paternal grandmother & great aunt worked
in Hut 16 at The Government Codes and Cipher
School during World War 2.
Lady Marion Body worked alongside the twins, Valerie
and Mary Glassborow and one of the highlights of the
Royal Visit was when the Princess sat down with Lady
Body to find out more about what her ancestors had
done during the war.
In this EXTRA’s episode we bring you both an interview
that Podcast host Katherine Lynch recorded with Lady
Body a few weeks before the special day and one from
Gareth Lloyd of BBC 3 Counties Radio, a few minutes
after her meeting with HRH.
Thanks to Nick, Gareth, Nia and Mark from BBC Three
Counties for allowing us to bring you their interview.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran, #enigma,
#BritishMonarchy, #BBC3CR
23 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.