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Bletchley Park

E08 - The Royals

Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park

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4.8177 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

March 2013

This month, we hear from some of the veterans* who met Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall, when she came to Bletchley Park to learn about the contribution women here made to the war effort. Thanks to Jessica Cooper of BBC 3 Counties Radio for some audio clips.

We’ll bring you reaction from senior cryptographer Captain Jerry Roberts after he met Her Majesty The Queen for the second time, as he received his MBE at Buckingham Palace. 

We look ahead at some upcoming events & we’ll hear from Bletchley Park guide & historian Joel Greenberg, about his new biography of Gordon Welchman.

*The next EXTRA’s episode will feature the full versions of these interviews. 

Image: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com

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Transcript

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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.

0:41.4

Welcome to the March edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.

0:46.2

This month we hear from some of the veterans who met her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cornwall,

0:51.1

when she came to Bletchley Park to learn about the contribution women here made to the war effort.

0:55.2

We'll bring your reaction from senior cryptographer Captain Jerry Roberts after he met Her Majesty the Queen for the second time

0:58.5

as he received his MBE at Buckingham Palace.

1:01.8

We'll look ahead at some spring events

1:03.8

and we'll hear from Bletchley Park Guide

1:05.9

and historian Joel Greenberg

1:07.5

about his new biography of Gordon Welshman.

1:21.0

First, everyone was feeling the love on Valentine's Day when Digital Radio UK came to the National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park to switch 1.8 million local radio listeners onto DAB across beds, hearts and bucks.

1:29.2

As the excitement was building, I spoke to Ford Ennells.

1:32.1

My name is Ford Ennells. I'm chief executive of Digital Radio UK

1:36.0

and we're the organisation responsible for developing and launching digital radio

1:41.2

so it's available throughout the UK.

1:43.2

This is part of a rollout of local radio onto DAB, on digital radio so it's available throughout the UK. This is part of a rollout of local radio onto DAB, on digital radio.

1:48.3

So right now there are national services available in almost about 90% of the country.

1:53.7

But locally it's only available in about 60%.

1:56.5

So we're working with government to extend from 60% of the country to 90%

2:01.4

and there's a series of 13 area launches and this is the biggest single area launch

2:07.4

that's going to happen in the UK over the next three years.

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