E117 - Oral History Special No. 2

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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February 2021

As we did last year we have decided to release extra content again during the current lockdown and so for at least the next couple of months we will be bringing you a new show every two weeks. These will be a mixture of Oral History Specials and also our regular content as and when COVID restrictions allow us.

Last year we featured short clips from dozens of our Veterans telling us what they did on VE Day & VJ Day. Now in these Oral History Specials we can bring you the longer versions of those interviews, allowing our Veterans to tell their full story, in their own voices and in their own way.

In early 2020, in what would become one the last interviews carried out just weeks before the pandemic, our Oral History Officer, Jonathan Byrne and his colleague Will Hankey sat down with GC&CS Veteran Tim Edwards. Previously we heard what Tim got up to on the day the war ended in Europe and now we can bring you much more of that interview. Tim’s reminisces about how the discovery of an eyesight problem suddenly stopped his training to be a pilot in the RAF and landed him at Bletchley Park working on German Air Force codes.

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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.
0:38.7	Welcome to the February 2021 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:44.3	Oral History Special, number two.
0:47.9	Hello, this is Mark, the podcast producer.
0:50.6	We're still in a national lockdown here in the UK, but it's been quite a busy week for the podcast
0:56.5	we managed finally Erica David Thomas and myself
1:00.9	to have a virtual online meeting
1:02.9	and I can tell you now we've planned out the whole year of podcast episodes
1:08.3	we've got some great it happened here Here episodes to bring you. We will
1:12.6	be bringing you our second part of our listeners questions and answers, but with that one we all
1:18.3	do need to be in the same place. So obviously at the moment we can't do that with lockdown, but as soon
1:24.0	as we can, we will bring you that. But one of the other things we decided was that, as we did with last year's lockdown,
1:31.1	we're going to bring you some extra content again.
1:33.8	So for at least the next couple of months, we'll be bringing you a new episode every two weeks or so.
1:39.4	These are going to be a mixture of these oral history specials,
1:42.4	but also our regular content as and when
1:45.0	COVID restrictions allow us to start recording again. Now, in case you are new to the show,
1:50.5	last year we featured short clips from dozens of our veterans telling us what they did on
1:55.2	VE Day and VJ Day. In these oral history specials, we can bring you the longer versions
2:00.7	of those interviews,
2:01.6	allowing our veterans to tell their own story, in their own voices and in their own way.
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