E127 - Top Secret Misinformation Part 2

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

July 2021

In late 2020 we asked on social media for any questions our listeners wanted the podcast team to answer. We had so many that we needed to record a second episode that originally we had planned for January 2021. Unfortunately due to COVID restrictions this wasn’t possible … but now, we are back.

In this episode, Exhibitions Manager Erica Munro, Research Historian Dr David Kenyon, Research Officer Dr Thomas Cheetham and podcast producer Mark Cotton, will be shining a light on some famous Bletchley Park myths and answering some fascinating questions from our brilliant listeners.

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

Image: ©Bletchley Park Trust 2021

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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 July 2021 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:44.9	Top secret misinformation, part two.
0:49.7	Last December, the entire podcast team got together after nearly a year of being a part,
0:54.9	and we recorded the first part of a Q&A session from our listeners.
0:59.8	Now, hopefully I'm not tempting fate with this,
1:02.3	but we'd originally promise that this second part that we're recording now
1:05.4	would be held in January this year.
1:07.4	So eight months later, we're all gathered together again.
1:10.8	I've got with me,
1:11.9	Erica Munro. Thomas Cheaton. David Kenyon. And I'm the producer Mark, and I'm going to take a
1:17.5	back seat. I'm going to hand over to Erica, who does the job much better than me.
1:20.9	We have our historians gathered to answer our listeners questions and hopefully bust a few
1:25.7	myths along the way. What better thing to
1:28.6	start with than a very well-worn quote? Tom, could you please tell us who described Bletchley
1:35.5	Park as the goose that laid the golden eggs? Yes, the short answer is nobody. Excellent.
1:42.0	That's it, great on the show. I hope the listeners all like that.
1:44.6	This is a nice easy one.
1:46.6	The quote is normally attributed to Churchill, Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister.
1:51.2	But as far as we know, he never said anything of the sort.
1:54.6	The whole Bletchley Park story was completely secret for the rest of his lifetime.
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