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Welcome to the November edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.

This month we take you to the MythBusters event,

where former codebreaker and GCHQ director Sir Arthur Bonsel made a rare public appearance.

He set the record straight about the Battle of Britain

and the eccentricities of some of the co-breakers, among other matters.

We'll also get the lowdown on this year's Enigma Challenge, where today's bomb team

deduced the enigma settings much more quickly than the average achieved by the co-breakers

at wartime Bletchley Park and beat their own record from last year.

And the fascinating story of Wyn Ribchester, who lived at Bletchley Park as a child

and was the youngest person ever to sign the Official Secrets Act. But, and the fascinating story of Wyn Ribchester, who lived at Bletchley Park as a child,

and was the youngest person ever to sign the Official Secrets Act.

But first, an insight into the mystery of the pigeon, which appears to have fallen down a chimney in 1944,

its coded message never reaching its destination.

David Martin, from Bletchingly in Surrey, found the bird skeleton when he cleared out the chimney to put in a new fireplace. It was intact and complete with a red canister containing a

coded message. Colin Hill, who curates the Pigeons at War exhibition at Bletchley Park, says in

several decades as a pigeon historian, he's never come across an enciphered message carried by a bird.

So Colin, how did the message first come to your attention?

A gentleman in the park itself came up to me one Sunday morning and asked me if I would be

interested in this message and he showed me it.

And I said, well, can I have the bloke's name and telephone number?

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