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The From the home of the co-breakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.

I'm Catherine Lynch, and this is the first monthly podcast from Bletchley Park.

In it I'll bring you stories from the codebreakers themselves, fascinating facts and artefacts which are still emerging and reports on the development of Bletchley Park.

Coming up, we'll hear from children enjoying a family fun Wednesday with a spy school and

a top secret workshop which run every week throughout the school holidays.

And we'll hear from Captain Jerry Roberts, a senior cryptographer and linguist who worked

in the testery breaking tunny.

I'll bring you an extract of his talk on Alan Turing at the sellout Turing Education

Day.

But first, let's hear from the chief executive of the Bletchley Park Trust, Ian Standen,

telling me how he plans to spend £7.4 million

pounds, restoring derelict co-breaking huts and the home of the card index block C.

You can hear from the echoy nature of our voices, but can you try and describe the state of this building we're in? We're in C block here, which was the Cardi Index during the Second World War.

It was used after the war and has been empty for, it must be 25 years or more now.

And this is going to be our new visitor centre, reception for the site of Bletchley Park.

And as you can see from the state of the building, it's looking in a bit tired.

The walls are

peeling the roof's falling in and the floor underneath that feet is pretty damp and squelchy

so quite a challenge to restore this building it's a happy home to quite a number of pigeons at the

moment though isn't it indeed yes you make careful you don't get dive bombed while you're working in here

but having been derelicta so you can see it's falling into a

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