4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Al Murray recounts the extraordinary story of one listener’s grandfather who ditched in the Med on the way to Sicily and swam out of a rapidly sinking plane.
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0:00.0 | Music |
0:25.0 | Which is of course |
0:26.2 | Most code for action, that is absolutely my favourite |
0:32.2 | That's just brilliant |
0:34.2 | I mean I'm not very good at most it was a bit slow wasn't it was a bit ham- |
0:37.7 | ham-fisted but how about that? |
0:39.4 | Yeah I wouldn't even know the Atlantic of a U-bass call the Grand Rapids |
0:42.9 | Yeah, yeah, we're over here |
0:45.4 | That's amazing |
0:49.2 | What do you think of that? |
0:50.2 | I love it |
0:51.2 | We'll be passing it all through in a Nigmer in Codenx week and that'll full all of you |
0:55.8 | Now then, most code was of course used quite heavily in the second world war |
0:59.8 | largely by shipping one problem it took ages to spell out a message which meant it was prone to detection by direction finding |
1:05.8 | So what they would use instead was to think of a burst encoder where what you do is you'd record the message and then fire out a high speed |
1:12.8 | So it would come up like that and then you'd slow it down at the other end |
1:15.8 | That's incredible, did you enjoy a little bit of more of that James? |
1:19.8 | I loved it, I thought that was completely brilliant |
1:21.8 | because I was actually lying away this morning thinking of thinking of kind of weird languages we hadn't actually done yet but Morse wasn't one of them |
1:28.8 | So yeah brilliant, absolutely |
1:32.8 | Yes, I mean it's always amazed me when you see people who are adept at Morse how fast they go and how natural they are with it |
1:41.8 | I thought it was the thing that's really amazing |
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