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The Bletchley Park Podcast - E19 - I hope she will smile, feel recognised & proud
February 2014
This month we join Bletchley Park Veteran Margaret
Roland as she was asked to be the special guest at a
ceremony to mark the completion of refurbishment
work at White Spire School in Bletchley.
We take you behind the scenes at rehearsals for
February half term’s exciting Living History project,
where Sorrel Meechan, one of the actors helping bring
the buildings to life, tells us about her personal
connection to the Bletchley Park having grown up
knowing her grandfather worked as a Bombe
Maintainer during World War Two.
Hear the intriguing – and entirely coincidental – family
connection Sarah Harding, the Director of the hit ITV
drama, The Bletchley Circle had with the Home of the
Codebreakers as her mother Dorothy Harding, nee
Thompson, was a Wireless Operator & Morse slip
reader at Bletchley Park.
Michael Portillo, former Defence Secretary turned TV
presenter came to Bletchley Park for an episode of
Great British Railway Journeys. Between takes he
shared a few insights into the absolute secrecy
surrounding this place during World War Two & how
some people, flying in the face of popular opinion, can
keep secrets in this day and age.
Finally our roving reporter Kerry Howard interviews
Veteran Betty Webb, who did the tricky job of
paraphrasing decrypted messages before they went
out to commanders in the field, helping to cover up
the very existence of Bletchley Park & how at the
Pentagon she continued her ultra-secret job till the
end of the war.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma, #ITV,
#TheBletchleyCircle, #ladynerds, #audiowrangler,
#mcfontaine
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February 2014
This month we join Bletchley Park Veteran Margaret
Roland as she was asked to be the special guest at a
ceremony to mark the completion of refurbishment
work at White Spire School in Bletchley.
We take you behind the scenes at rehearsals for
February half term’s exciting Living History project,
where Sorrel Meechan, one of the actors helping bring
the buildings to life, tells us about her personal
connection to the Bletchley Park having grown up
knowing her grandfather worked as a Bombe
Maintainer during World War Two.
Hear the intriguing – and entirely coincidental – family
connection Sarah Harding, the Director of the hit ITV
drama, The Bletchley Circle had with the Home of the
Codebreakers as her mother Dorothy Harding, nee
Thompson, was a Wireless Operator & Morse slip
reader at Bletchley Park.
Michael Portillo, former Defence Secretary turned TV
presenter came to Bletchley Park for an episode of
Great British Railway Journeys. Between takes he
shared a few insights into the absolute secrecy
surrounding this place during World War Two & how
some people, flying in the face of popular opinion, can
keep secrets in this day and age.
Finally our roving reporter Kerry Howard interviews
Veteran Betty Webb, who did the tricky job of
paraphrasing decrypted messages before they went
out to commanders in the field, helping to cover up
the very existence of Bletchley Park & how at the
Pentagon she continued her ultra-secret job till the
end of the war.
Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma, #ITV,
#TheBletchleyCircle, #ladynerds, #audiowrangler,
#mcfontaine
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