Bletchley Park

April 2013

In the last episode of Podcast we gave you just a small flavour of The Third Enigma Challenge that was held in March.

For 4 days GCHQ’s Historical Section were based at The Big Bang Fair at London’s ExCel Centre were sending Enigma Coded Messages for the Bombe Rebuild Team to try and crack back at Bletchley Park.

On the Friday Nick Coffer of BBC 3 Counties Radio presented his afternoon show from Block B at Bletchley Park and that’s what we will be sharing with you over the next two Extras episodes.

So a huge thank you goes to The BBC 3 Counties OB Team, Emma Smith & Gareth Lloyd, Nick Coffer of course, The Bombe Rebuild Team & The 3 Belles.

#BPark, #Enigma, #BBC3CR, #NickCoffer

April 2013

This month, BBC 3 Counties Radio covered the 3rd Enigma Challenge.

Bletchley Park Event’s Manager, Claire Urwin, tells us about some of the forthcoming Summer Events.

Author Michael Smith tells us all about his new book, Bletchley Park, the Codebreakers of Station X which had just been released.

Project Neptune, the HLF restoration of Bletchley Park is about to start. We take you inside the soon to be restored Huts and Blocks with the people who’ll be running the project

#BPark, #Enigma, #HLF, #BBC3CR, #NickCoffer, #TonyFisher

Thanks to Nick Coffer & the BBC 3 Counties OB Team for the use of the Enigma Challenge audio & Tony Fisher for the use of his Neptune interviews.

March 2013

In this episode we bring you the longer versions of some of the interviews featured in the last episode of The Bletchley Park Podcast.

They were recorded by mcfontaine and our new roving reporter Kerry Howard, after the visit of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.

Featuring Aileen Hasdell, Gwen Flavell, Peggy Dorrington & Alba Whiteman.

#bpark, #enigma, #bombe, #bletchleypark

February 2013

In this episode we have the full interview with Captain Jerry Roberts, who was today (28/02/13) awarded an MBE by Her Majesty The Queen in honour of his 4 year campaign for more recognition for Alan Turing, Bill Tutte and Tommy Flowers.

Jerry shares with us what it was like to work in The Testery breaking coded messages from Hitler, his memories of “a great man” Bill Tutte, working as a War Crimes Investigator and setting up the first Marketing company in post war South America.

Captain Roberts was one of four founding members of the Testery, named after its leader, Ralph Tester. This team was tasked with breaking Germany’s highest-level cipher system, Lorenz, known by the Codebreakers as Tunny. Captain Roberts worked in the Testery from its inception in October 1941, after Bill Tutte made the first break into the Lorenz system, until the end of the war in 1945.

Read Katherine Lynch’s blog about Jerry’s visit to the palace http://bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/686548

#Bletchleypark, #BPark, #Turing, #wonder88, #Tunny, #MBE