E111 – The Best of Reunions Part 2

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🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

September 2020

As we explained in the last show, due to COVID-19 restrictions and with huge regret, Bletchley Park Trust had to take the difficult decision not to host our Annual Veterans Reunion onsite this year.

To continue to mark what would have been this year’s reunion, this is the second of three special episodes we will be bringing you this month, to still pay tribute to our Veterans.

Reunion is always the busiest day of the year for the podcast, catching up with old friends & rushing around trying to make sure that we can record as many Veterans as we can but it hasn’t just been our original co-host Katherine Lynch and producer Mark Cotton. We have also had help from a group of people we like to call our roving reporters. They are friends of the podcast who kindly give their time to help us allow the Veterans’, to tell their stories, in their own voices.

We want to thank everyone who has helped us at each reunion since 2012 but especially those featured in this episode, Sarah Langston, Kerry Howard, Astrid Specht, Helen Legh and of course Katherine Lynch.

The Veterans featured in this episode, in order of appearance are:

Flo Cole

Cicely Anderson

Mimi Gallilee

Kay Wingate

Nancy Clark

Geoffrey Pidgeon

Pat Davies

Christine Brose

Joan Smeaton

Mary Heal

Eric Dodd

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Veterans of Bletchley Park and its Outstations, for their service.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The From the home of the codebreakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:38.6	Welcome to this very special episode of the Bletchley Park podcast. Welcome to this very special episode of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:43.1	The Best of Reunions, Part 2.
0:46.7	As I explained in the last show, due to COVID-19 restrictions and with huge regret,
0:52.4	Bletchley Park Trust had to take the difficult decision
0:54.8	not to host our annual Veterans Reunion on site this year.
0:58.8	This is the second of three special episodes we'll be bringing you this month to still
1:03.0	pay tribute to our veterans.
1:05.4	Reunion is always the busiest day of the year for us, catching up with old friends
1:09.6	and rushing around trying
1:10.8	to make sure that we can record as many veterans as we can on the day. So over the eight years
1:15.6	of the podcast, it hasn't just been our original co-host Catherine Lynch and me capturing those
1:20.7	memories. We've also had some help from a group of people we like to call our roving reporters.
1:26.9	They're all friends of the podcast who kindly give their time to help us to allow the veterans
1:31.9	to tell their stories in their own voices.
1:35.8	I'll have no doubt missed a few along the way, but I say thank you to everyone who's helped
1:40.5	us since 2012, but especially to those whose interviews are featured in this episode.
1:45.6	Sarah Langston,
1:47.0	Kerry Howard,
1:48.1	Ashtridge Spett,
1:49.5	Helen Lee,
	...

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