Bletchley Park

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January 10, 2014 The Bletchley Park Podcast - E18 - You Must Not Mention This Conversation
January 2014
This month we take you exclusively behind the scenes
during filming of The Bletchley Circle, hearing from the
Producer, Standby Art Director & Bletchley Park Trust
staff who were cast as supporting actors, to safeguard
machines which belong to GCHQ.
We hear from Veteran Audrey Wind, whose story is
featured as a DVD extra, who was told when she was
recruited: “You must not mention this conversation to any
living person.” Years after the war, she was spotted by a
fellow alumnus of Bletchley Park & the secrecy they
shared caused all sorts of suspicion about their
relationship.
This month’s Podcast also lets you in on the plans for
the fragile wooden huts being restored as part of the
£8m, Heritage Lottery Funded restoration, with details
of how their stories will be told.
Hear about how actors will bring Bletchley Park to life
with the Living History Project. Liv Spencer tells us
what she will be looking for during the auditions.
Picture ©mcfontaine
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma, #ITV,
#TheBletchleyCircle, #ladynerds, #audiowrangler,
#mcfontaine
55 min
December 17, 2013 Extra - E31 - The Bletchley Circle Returns
December 2013
In this EXTRA episode we look back at what turned into
another busy year at Bletchley Park, but also ahead to the
return of the ITV drama The Bletchley Circle.
The thrilling series based on the lives of four extraordinary
& brilliant women who worked at Bletchley Park during
WW2 returns to UK screens on ITV for a four-part series
starting on Monday 6th of January 2014.
Over the next few Podcasts & EXTRA episodes we will
be bringing you exclusive interviews with the cast & crew,
to give you a unique look behind the scenes that you will
find nowhere else.
To start us off we bring you interviews we recorded at the
official Press Screening with three of the stars of the
series, Rachael Stirling, Julie Graham & Hattie Morahan,
who were joined by Executive Producer, Jake Lushington
& series Writer & Creator, Guy Burt.
Bletchley Circle image ®ITV
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma, #ITV,
#TheBletchleyCircle, #ladynerds, #audiowrangler,
#mcfontaine
30 min
December 17, 2013 Bletchley Park Podcast Extra - E31 - The Bletchley Circle Returns
December 2013
In this EXTRA episode we look back at what turned into
another busy year at Bletchley Park, but also ahead to the
return of the ITV drama The Bletchley Circle.
The thrilling series based on the lives of four extraordinary
& brilliant women who worked at Bletchley Park during
WW2 returns to UK screens on ITV for a four-part series
starting on Monday 6th of January 2014.
Over the next few Podcasts & EXTRA episodes we will
be bringing you exclusive interviews with the cast & crew,
to give you a unique look behind the scenes that you will
find nowhere else.
To start us off we bring you interviews we recorded at the
official Press Screening with three of the stars of the
series, Rachael Stirling, Julie Graham & Hattie Morahan,
who were joined by Executive Producer, Jake Lushington
& series Writer & Creator, Guy Burt.
Bletchley Circle image ®ITV
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma, #ITV,
#TheBletchleyCircle, #ladynerds, #audiowrangler,
#mcfontaine
30 min
December 10, 2013 E17 - Blind Dates, Doodlebugs & Tweezers
December 2013
This month, we join Bletchley Park historian Dr Joel
Greenberg & AS Level history students from Milton Keynes
College as they discover hidden treasures under The
Mansion car park. Footings of what the Bletchley Park
Trust believes were the first few wooden huts built at the
outbreak of World War Two were found when the tarmac
was removed.
We find out what happened at a specially set-up monitoring
station in the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park,
when AMSAT-UK launched FUNcube-1, a 10cm cubed
satellite weighing less than a kilogram, over Russia.
We have an exclusive interview with Professor’s Barry
Cooper & Jack Copeland who spoke about some of the
lesser known heroes of Bletchley Park at the day of
sold-out talks, Codebreakers’ Legacy. They talk about the
continuing interest in Alan Turing & what also what they
think about the forthcoming film of his life.
Yet again we have the honour of interviewing one of our
Veterans. Cynthia Legge (nee Mould) was a Wren Bombe
Operator based at Stanmore during WW2. She shares her
recollections with us including blind dates, Doodlebugs &
the job with tweezers she describes as hell on earth.
You can find AMSAT-UK at www.amsat-uk.org
Picture ©mcfontaine
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Bombe, #Enigma, #Veterans,
#AMSAT_UK, #FUNcube-1, #audiowrangler, #mcfontaine
46 min
December 10, 2013 The Bletchley Park Podcast - E17 - Blind Dates, Doodlebugs & Tweezers
December 2013
This month, we join Bletchley Park historian Dr Joel
Greenberg & AS Level history students from Milton Keynes
College as they discover hidden treasures under The
Mansion car park. Footings of what the Bletchley Park
Trust believes were the first few wooden huts built at the
outbreak of World War Two were found when the tarmac
was removed.
We find out what happened at a specially set-up monitoring
station in the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park,
when AMSAT-UK launched FUNcube-1, a 10cm cubed
satellite weighing less than a kilogram, over Russia.
We have an exclusive interview with Professor’s Barry
Cooper & Jack Copeland who spoke about some of the
lesser known heroes of Bletchley Park at the day of
sold-out talks, Codebreakers’ Legacy. They talk about the
continuing interest in Alan Turing & what also what they
think about the forthcoming film of his life.
Yet again we have the honour of interviewing one of our
Veterans. Cynthia Legge (nee Mould) was a Wren Bombe
Operator based at Stanmore during WW2. She shares her
recollections with us including blind dates, Doodlebugs &
the job with tweezers she describes as hell on earth.
You can find AMSAT-UK at www.amsat-uk.org
Picture ©mcfontaine
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Bombe, #Enigma, #Veterans,
#AMSAT_UK, #FUNcube-1, #audiowrangler, #mcfontaine
46 min
December 01, 2013 Extra - E30 - Norah Boswell & Joyce Roberts
December 2013
In this month’s Bletchley Park Podcast we brought you
some highlights of the day we spent with two amazing
Veterans, Norah Boswell, a Wren Bombe Operator who
was stationed at Stanmore & Joyce Roberts, a WAAF
Teleprinter Operator at Bletchley Park.
In this extended version join tour guide Mike Chapman as
we roll back 70 years for these two amazing ladies & listen
in as Norah gets her revenge on The Bombe & Joyce finds
a dear old friend in the Hut she worked in.
It is times like this that make producing the Bletchley Park
Podcast such an honour.
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Bombe, #Enigma, #Veterans,
#audiowrangler, #mcfontaine
32 min
December 01, 2013 Bletchley Park Podcast Extra - E30 - Norah Boswell & Joyce Roberts
December 2013
In this month’s Bletchley Park Podcast we brought you
some highlights of the day we spent with two amazing
Veterans, Norah Boswell, a Wren Bombe Operator who
was stationed at Stanmore & Joyce Roberts, a WAAF
Teleprinter Operator at Bletchley Park.
In this extended version join tour guide Mike Chapman as
we roll back 70 years for these two amazing ladies & listen
in as Norah gets her revenge on The Bombe & Joyce finds
a dear old friend in the Hut she worked in.
It is times like this that make producing the Bletchley Park
Podcast such an honour.
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Bombe, #Enigma, #Veterans,
#audiowrangler, #mcfontaine
32 min
November 24, 2013 Extra - E29 - Women in Cyber Security
November 2013
In October Cyber Security Challenge UK & Raytheon held an event called Today, Then & Tomorrow.
It looked at the role of women in cyber security, celebrating the Bletchley Park Veterans, leading figures of today & a look into the future.
Here is a flavour of the day featuring Natalie Black, Stephanie Daman, Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Dr Brooke Hoskins, Clare McBrearty, Lucy Robson & Bletchley Park Podcast’s, very own, Kerry Howard.
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #cybersecurity, #thentodaytomorrow, #Raytheon, #CyberChallenge, #mcfontaine
31 min
November 24, 2013 Bletchley Park Podcast Extra - E29 - Women in Cyber Security
November 2013
In October Cyber Security Challenge UK & Raytheon held an event called Today, Then & Tomorrow.
It looked at the role of women in cyber security, celebrating the Bletchley Park Veterans, leading figures of today & a look into the future.
Here is a flavour of the day featuring Natalie Black, Stephanie Daman, Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Dr Brooke Hoskins, Clare McBrearty, Lucy Robson & Bletchley Park Podcast’s, very own, Kerry Howard.
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #cybersecurity, #thentodaytomorrow, #Raytheon, #CyberChallenge, #mcfontaine
31 min
November 18, 2013 Extra - E28 - Mavis Batey
November 2013
Mavis Batey, one of Bletchley Park’s leading female
Codebreakers, died this week at the age of 92.
Mavis’s work on Enigma was crucial to the Royal Navy’s
victory at Matapan in 1941 and the success of the D-Day
landings in 1944. She was part of Dilly Knox’s team, working on
as-yet unbroken codes and ciphers.
In this Bletchley Park Podcast Extra, we can hear her
chatting with Bletchley Park historian and author Michael
Smith.
Many thanks to Michael Smith, Matt Rawlinson & The Open
University for allowing us to share this with you.
#bletchleypark, #bpark, #enigma, #ww2
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.