E146 - Top Secret Misinformation Part 3

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

December 2022

Since the first two Top Secret Misinformation podcasts in 2020 & 2021, our listeners have been asking us to record another one. Maybe it’s because the secrecy surrounding Bletchley Park is the perfect breeding ground for all sorts of myths and misunderstandings. Or maybe it’s because it lets our Historians off the leash to set the record straight once and for all.

We asked our listeners, via social media, what history mysteries they wanted solved by our resident representatives of research and rigour, Dr David Kenyon and Dr Thomas Cheetham. In this episode they are joined by Exhibitions Manager Erica Munro and podcast producer Mark Cotton, to try and get to the bottom of some of Bletchley Park’s most puzzling conundrums.

Many thanks to Dr Ben Thomson for voicing our archival documents.

Featuring the following contributors from our Oral History Archive:

Betty Webb
Shaun Wylie
Mavis Batey
Peggy Huntingdon
Joan Joslin

Producers Note:
Many thanks to our listeners and followers for setting us these challenges. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #WW2, #Enigma,

Transcript

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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.
0:43.8	Welcome to the December 22 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:48.3	Top secret misinformation, part three.
0:55.6	It's that time of the year again when all the members of the podcast team get together in the same room.
1:02.7	And to explain why we're all in the same room, who better than Erica Munro, Bletchley Park's exhibitions manager and your podcast host. Thank you, Mark. Since the first two top secret
1:10.4	misinformation podcasts that we did in 2020 and 2021,
1:14.5	our listeners have been asking us to record one more. Maybe it's because the secrecy surrounding
1:18.9	Bletchley Park is the perfect breeding ground for all sorts of myths and misunderstandings,
1:24.1	or maybe it's just because it lets our historians off the leash to set the record straight once
1:28.4	and for all. We asked our listeners, as we did before, via social media, what history mysteries
1:34.7	they wanted solved by our resident representatives of research and rigour. And they are Dr. David
1:41.2	Kenyon. Hello. And Dr Thomas Cheatham.
1:45.0	Good evening.
1:46.9	In this episode, they're joined by me and our podcast producer Mark Cotton.
1:51.4	Hello.
1:52.0	To try to get to the bottom of some of Bletchley Park's most puzzling conundrums.
1:56.2	I think, everyone, a round of applause for Erica's introduction, please.
2:01.7	I can't have to.
2:02.6	Repeat.
2:03.7	Yeah, no one else is going to.
2:04.7	All downhill from here.
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