E14 - 40s Stories on Modern Tech

Bletchley Park

History

4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

September 2013

This month stories from 70 years ago are given a modern twist.

The New Enigma event was a chance to find out if you have what it takes to be a Codebreaker, with experts from GCHQ telling us about some truly amazing new technology, which might just confuse a certain podcast producer.

Rich storytelling is the key to enjoying a visit to Bletchley Park. Now included in the admission price, as well as a guided tour by a passionate historian, every visitor can take an iPod Touch based Multimedia Guided tour, created by ATS Heritage & our own experts. We take you along to the official launch where we put them to the test with visitors aged from six to eighty six.

The Budd twins and their younger brother had a unique childhood, as they lived at Bletchley Park during WW2. We join all three of them as they come back for a visit.

Each year we hold the Enigma Reunion for our Veterans. This year some of them were given a sneak peek at what will be the first of our new restoration exhibits to open, Hut 11 and we had the honour to be there with the very women who worked on the Bombe machines, whose story it tells.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The From the home of the co-breakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:37.3	Welcome to the September edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:41.3	This month we take you to the new enigma event where mind-blowing new technology was showcased.
0:46.7	We meet the veterans at the wonderful annual Enigma reunion,
0:50.2	which is timed each year to tie in with the anniversary of the early call to arms
0:53.9	with the coded message, Auntie Flo is not so well. We in with the anniversary of the early call to arms with the coded message,
0:55.3	Auntie Flo is not so well. We also test the new multimedia guides on visitors aged from 6 to 86,
1:01.9	and we have a nosy listen-in on some very special family memories.
1:17.9	The new Enigma event was a chance to find out if you have what it takes to be a codebreaker,
1:22.6	with experts from GCHQ and some truly amazing new technology,
1:26.6	which podcast producer Mark Cotton had to work to get his head around.
1:35.1	This is a modern example of communications research from TCHQ, supporting the new cyber security needs of the country,
1:39.2	and involves a demonstration of communication with visible light.
1:46.0	So what we have here is a demonstration of visible light communications, which is a new technology coming up. What I have here are three domestic lamps, which are not quite what they seem.
1:51.0	Each one is actually an LED lamp with white light.
1:55.0	If I hold my hand under this one, you can see that it looks like normal light,
1:59.0	but actually there's a code in each of these three bulbs,
2:01.6	a different code in each case and the code is actually being used to make the light flickle.
2:08.6	So you have a different flickering on each light.
2:11.6	I have here a tablet running an app. There's a light sensor that's plugged into it. When I present the tablet
2:19.1	under the first light, it triggers a video on the tablet, which in this case is an R&I
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