E06 - Reunions

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

January 2013

This month it’s all about reunions.

40 years ago a group of teenagers came to Bletchley Park as CAA Apprentices & they told Jessica Cooper of BBC 3 Counties Radio all about their time here when they came back last month.

We interview some of the original members of the Bletchley Park Trust who talk about the early days of Saving Bletchley Park to celebrate 21 years of the Trust.

Also BP CEO Iain Standen tells us all about Get Fit for 2013 & you can find out about some of the great events happening at Bletchley Park in 2013.

#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #CAA, #BParkPodcast, #BBC3CountiesRadio

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The From the home of the co-breakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:43.4	Welcome to the January edition of the Bletchley Park podcast with me, Catherine Lynch and producer Mark Cotton.
0:53.0	It's another packed year at Bletchley Park in 2013 and we'll have some new events this year as well as the firm favourites like the Enigma Reunion, Blitz Night and the 40s Festival.
0:57.9	Bletchley Park is always a fantastic day out but this year we've got more special events including some exciting new ones. I've seen a list of some of these new events that we've
1:02.7	got coming up in 2013. Can you take us through some of them specifically? Well how about new
1:07.2	Enigma? There you can find out what it takes to be a codebreaker. Do you think you've got what it takes?
1:12.5	Oh, I don't know about that.
1:14.2	Right back in the days of GCNCS, up to GCHQ in Cheltenham today, and what they're looking for in their new wave of recruits.
1:22.3	So that will be looking at code breaking in the future then. So what about Codebreakers' legacy that we've got on November the 9th?
1:28.9	That's a team of top speakers. It's quite a prestigious event. They'll explore the work of the
1:33.1	co-breakers, not just Alan Turing, who we hear a lot about, especially last year in his centenary year,
1:38.3	but also the likes of Dilly Knox, Gordon Welchman, Max Newman and many others.
1:42.5	They'll be delving into how they've influenced the
1:44.7	world we live in today. It's nice that we'll be bringing some of the other co-breakers that
1:48.8	aren't always in the story to more people's attention. I noticed another event here, are you listening?
1:54.6	Are you? That'll be celebrating communications throughout history. And we'll go right back to when
1:59.1	we relied on pigeons, through the beginnings
2:01.0	of the post office, right through radio waves, up to the first televisions, and it will bring it
2:05.7	bang up to date with the internet and the digital age we live in now. And of course, Bletchley Park's
2:11.0	role in all of that, and the rapid development there was during the war, but then the secrecy
2:15.4	that surrounded that and how that technology was taken forward afterwards. That event is on the 5th and 6th of October.
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