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Bletchley Park

E15 - Job Up in the Hell Hole

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4.8177 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

October 2013

This month we talk to actor Simon Callow, who was filming in Alan Turing’s office in Hut 8 & we discover a secret about his university tutor.

Architect Janie Price, brings us a short update on the HLF Restoration of Bletchley Park; where they are looking at floorboards … one by one.

Then join Bombe Wrens as they are transported back in time when they see Hut 11 restored to its WW2 atmosphere. Veterans, Ruth Bourne & Joan Tolson tell us what it was like to work on a Bombe Machine & we luckily capture a short story from Bletchley Baby, Josephine Ross.

Pictures ©mubsta.com & mcfontaine

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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 October edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.

0:40.9

This month we bring you bomb wrens being transported back in time

0:44.1

when they saw Hutt 11 restored to its wartime atmosphere

0:47.0

with the new exhibition all about their work.

0:50.0

We'll also get an update on the rest of the restoration

0:52.1

with the architect, Janie Price.

0:54.5

We bring you a chat from Hutt 8 with the distinguished actor Simon Callow,

0:58.6

whose university tutor in the 60s turned out to have been an influential codebreaker.

1:03.6

Plus, there are some prestigious new events this autumn, featuring a team of top speakers.

1:14.8

Thank you. a team of top speakers. Whether you know him as a fine Shakespearean thespian, the one who died in four

1:18.9

weddings and a funeral, or even the professor from Ace Ventura Pet Detective 2, Simon Callow

1:23.9

has a long and distinguished CV on the stage and screen.

1:27.5

BBC Daily Politics asked him to make an authored film about Russia's anti-gay laws,

1:32.6

and he chose to come to Bletchley Park to make the point that prosecution for being gay

1:36.8

is within living memory in the UK.

1:39.4

While filming in Alan Turing's office in Hutate,

1:42.1

he told me about his university tutor, who held a surprising secret.

1:46.4

We're making a very, very short film for the programme called The Week, to comment on the situation in Russia for gay people.

1:54.9

Obviously the question is whether one should protest at the Winter Olympics or make some other kind of gesture.

2:01.1

And we had the idea that Alan Turing was a very interesting example of someone who lived in a society

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