E137 - The Intelligence Factory

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

May 2022

Bletchley Park held a number of events to celebrate the opening of The Intelligence Factory and in this special episode we will take you to those events to hear from VIP guests, supporters and some of the people who helped to create our largest exhibition to date.

From the ‘Friends of Bletchley Park’ Preview we will hear from some of the first people who got to follow in the footsteps of our Veterans, in the newly restored Block A.

Dr Emily Scott-Dearing, the Interpretation Lead for The Intelligence Factory, explains how you tell the complex story of thousands of people working for the Government Code and Cypher School during the latter half of WW2.

At our VIP Opening we will be joined by broadcaster and History Hit star, Dan Snow, to hear how the new exhibition expands the codebreaking story and what it can teach us today. Then Dan is joined by Research Historian Dr David Kenyon, GCHQ Departmental Historian Dr David Abrutat and Intelligence Historian Dr Claire Hubbard-Hall for a panel discussion.

To find out how you can become a ‘Friend of Bletchley Park’ please go to https://bletchleypark.org.uk/friends/

Image: ©Bletchley Park Trust 2022

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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.
0:38.5	Welcome to this additional episode of the Bletchley Park podcast. Welcome to this additional episode of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:42.9	The Intelligence Factory.
0:45.7	In this episode, we're bringing you the VIP opening event for Bletchley Park's major
0:50.5	new exhibition, The Intelligence Factory.
0:53.1	We'll bring you a favour of the event,
0:55.0	including a panel discussion led by history hits Dan Snow,
0:59.0	interviews with some of the people who helped put this exhibition together.
1:02.0	But first, we'll go back a couple of days.
1:05.0	There's many ways of supporting Bletchley Park,
1:07.0	and one of them is to become a friend of Bletchley Park.
1:09.0	And one of the benefits is special previews of our new exhibitions.
1:13.9	So two days ago, I joined more than 80 of our friends,
1:17.1	as they got to be the first people who saw the Intelligence Factory.
1:22.4	Right, good afternoon, everybody.
1:24.5	First of all, how lovely to have everyone back on site for a friend's vent.
1:29.6	Obviously, this is our first one since 2019. So a long time coming, but hopefully you're all going to have a lovely time looking at our new exhibition.
1:40.7	So Peronnell Credit is our head of programmes. Periol is just going to give you a quick overview
1:46.0	so you know a bit about what's over in the exhibition. Once that's done, we are then going to
1:51.0	take you over to the exhibition where you will all be basically left to just wander at your own speed through the exhibition.
1:58.0	So without any more ado, I'll just pass you over to Pevere now.
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