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The Bletchley Park Podcast - E21 - It nearly drove us mad
April 2014
This month, we take you inside the 1940s Boutique, a
new event which helps you recreate wartime glamour.
We hear from the daughter and granddaughters of a
woman who may or may not have worked at Bletchley
Park but who, family legend has it, knew her brother
had been killed in action when the rest of her family
could only be told he was missing.
We take a sneak peek inside the soon to be opened
Codebreaking Huts, taken back to their wartime glory
as part of the £8 million restoration of Bletchley Park,
meeting the volunteer actors who have become part of
the way we tell this incredible story. We find out just
how close we came to losing those wooden huts
altogether.
We also hear from a woman who, 70 years on, says
her work in the Y service nearly drove her mad.
Margaret Reardon (nee Chapman) recalls “Quite a
few people broke down. There was a joke about one
man who drew ducks on the blackboard and was
feeding them - he had to be carried off. It really got
into you.”
The music you can hear in this episode is from those
brilliant Bletchley Park supporters The Three Belles.
Find out more about them at http://thethreebelles.com
Picture ©Elbow Productions
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma,
#livinghistory, #TheThreeBelles,
#mcfontaine
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April 2014
This month, we take you inside the 1940s Boutique, a
new event which helps you recreate wartime glamour.
We hear from the daughter and granddaughters of a
woman who may or may not have worked at Bletchley
Park but who, family legend has it, knew her brother
had been killed in action when the rest of her family
could only be told he was missing.
We take a sneak peek inside the soon to be opened
Codebreaking Huts, taken back to their wartime glory
as part of the £8 million restoration of Bletchley Park,
meeting the volunteer actors who have become part of
the way we tell this incredible story. We find out just
how close we came to losing those wooden huts
altogether.
We also hear from a woman who, 70 years on, says
her work in the Y service nearly drove her mad.
Margaret Reardon (nee Chapman) recalls “Quite a
few people broke down. There was a joke about one
man who drew ducks on the blackboard and was
feeding them - he had to be carried off. It really got
into you.”
The music you can hear in this episode is from those
brilliant Bletchley Park supporters The Three Belles.
Find out more about them at http://thethreebelles.com
Picture ©Elbow Productions
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma,
#livinghistory, #TheThreeBelles,
#mcfontaine
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