E114 - Top Secret Misinformation Part 1

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

November 2020

For the first time since January 2020 the podcast team were able to be physically in the same room together, even if socially distanced. So to mark this return we decided to ask our listeners on social media for their questions about Bletchley Park.

In this, the first of these shows, Exhibitions Manager Erica Munro, Research Historian Dr David Kenyon, Research Officer Dr Thomas Cheetham and podcast producer Mark Cotton, will hopefully answer those questions and maybe do a bit of myth busting along the way.

Many thanks to our listeners and followers for setting us these challenges.

Special thanks, as always, go to Mr Ben Thomson for voicing our archival documents.

Image: ©Bletchley Park Trust 2020

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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 the November 2020 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:44.4	Top secret misinformation, part one.
0:48.9	In January this year, we sat in the archive recording our Enigma Unlocked episode. But little did we know
0:57.1	that that was actually going to be the last time the podcast team was physically in a room
1:01.9	together until today. So today I have with me. Erica Munro. David Kenyon. Thomas Cheaton.
1:10.8	The gang's back together.
1:12.3	Now, we asked our comms team to ask you, our listeners, for some questions.
1:17.3	And that's what this episode is going to be about.
1:20.2	So I'm going to take a back seat now because basically, well, I've been the podcast for the whole of the year.
1:26.8	And these three need to catch up, as I haven't put enough hours in for the podcast.
1:30.5	So over to you.
1:32.8	Thank you, Mark.
1:34.8	We've had some great questions sent to us through different channels on social media.
1:39.7	And our plan today is to set these challenges to our historians and see if they can give us some answers.
1:45.9	Some questions are pretty tricky.
1:47.4	Some represent some of the bigger myths that we come across here at Lechley Park.
1:52.3	I think we should start and go straight in with a question that certainly I've heard a number of times,
1:57.8	which is from Steve, who's come to us on Facebook with the question,
2:01.9	were all the enigma messages broken? David? No. Thanks for that. And that's it. Next question.
2:11.0	One of the big misconceptions that people have, and you hear this in the media, is people talk
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