E135 - Two Way Traffic

Bletchley Park

History

4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

March 2022

Bletchley Park is synonymous with World War Two codebreaking, but the story is much bigger than just a country house in Buckinghamshire. Making, as well as breaking codes, was within the remit of the Government Code and Cypher School but is a much lesser known part of the story.

In this extended ‘It Happened Here’ episode, we not only find out about the British efforts to create codes of their own, but also German codebreaking successes and failures.

Bletchley Park’s Research Officer, Dr Thomas Cheetham, introduces us to the section of GC&CS creating Allied codes from the sleepy surroundings of a university college in Oxford. Whist Research Historian, Dr David Kenyon, explores the numerous German ‘Bletchley Parks’ whose task it was to break those very codes.

British Codemakers and German Codebreakers, the two way traffic of the intelligence war.

This episode features the following contributors from our Oral History Archive:

June Coppock

Sergeant Bernard Morgan

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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
0:33.2	bletchley Park podcast.
0:43.2	Welcome to the March 22 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:45.1	Two-way traffic.
0:50.9	Bletchley Park is synonymous with World War II code breaking, but the story is much bigger than just a country house in Buckinghamshire.
0:54.1	Making, as well as breaking codes, was within the remit of the government code and cyber But the story is much bigger than just a country house in Buckinghamshire.
0:54.4	Making as well as breaking codes was within the remit of the Government Code and Cipher
0:58.3	School but is a much lesser known part of the story.
1:02.2	In this extended It Happened Here episode, we not only find out about the British efforts
1:06.9	to create codes of their own, but German code-breaking successes and failures.
1:12.5	Bletchley Park's research officer, Dr Thomas Cheatham, introduces us to the section of
1:17.1	GCNCS creating allied codes from the sleepy surroundings of a university college in Oxford.
1:23.4	Whilst research historian Dr David Kenyon explores the numerous German Bletchley parks
1:28.4	whose task it was to break those very codes.
1:32.1	British code makers and German code breakers,
1:35.6	the two-way traffic of the intelligence war. This is Bletchley Park.
1:56.4	It happened here.
2:00.7	In just about every episode of the podcast, we talk about the same thing.
2:05.4	We talk about code breakers, mainly based here at Bletchley Park, breaking access codes.
2:10.7	But that's nowhere near the full story.
2:13.6	And in this bit happened here, we're going to look at two other sides to that story.
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