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Bletchley Park

E09 - Neptune Begins

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4.8177 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

April 2013

This month, BBC 3 Counties Radio covered the 3rd Enigma Challenge.

Bletchley Park Event’s Manager, Claire Urwin, tells us about some of the forthcoming Summer Events.

Author Michael Smith tells us all about his new book, Bletchley Park, the Codebreakers of Station X which had just been released.

Project Neptune, the HLF restoration of Bletchley Park is about to start. We take you inside the soon to be restored Huts and Blocks with the people who’ll be running the project

#BPark, #Enigma, #HLF, #BBC3CR, #NickCoffer, #TonyFisher

Thanks to Nick Coffer & the BBC 3 Counties OB Team for the use of the Enigma Challenge audio & Tony Fisher for the use of his Neptune interviews.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The

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

0:41.6

Welcome to the April edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.

0:46.4

This month we talked to Bletchley Park trustee and best-selling author Mick Smith about veterans sunbathing naked on the roof, among other things.

0:49.8

We look ahead to a packed summer at the home of the co-breakers

0:52.6

and we take you inside the derelict buildings about to be restored to their wartime condition.

0:58.3

But fast, the third Enigma Challenge was held in Block B and at the Big Bang Fair in March.

1:07.0

BBC, three counties radio.

1:11.3

And welcome to Bletchley Park live today.

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We're code breaking.

1:15.6

I have to say, I've been so looking forward to doing this program today.

1:19.2

I'm going to be trying to simplify the notion of code breaking to you, bringing all the

1:23.6

colour of Bletchley Park.

1:25.2

And it is really a park.

1:26.5

If you walk around, there's a beautiful

1:28.1

lake with some nice ducks and swans on it. There's the mansion house on the far side and then

1:32.5

the sprawl of buildings that make up the heartbeat of Bletchley Park, the huts and the buildings.

1:38.1

I'm currently in Block B, which is where they house a large part of the museum here. Without

1:42.9

Bletchley Park, it's fair to say we may not have won the Second World War.

1:48.0

And this is a park, it's a tourist attraction that is right in the heart of the three counties,

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right on a patch in Bletchley, which is just outside Milton Keynes.

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There's a team here at Bletchley Park are linking up with people in London at the Excel Centre to try and decipher a code just as they did during the war. Here to tell me more is Paul Keller. First of all, Paul, what a machine this is. Allow me just to describe it briefly. It's just lots and lots of cogs and wheels. It looks like the most elaborate safe to a bank vault you've ever seen. Yes, it does,

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