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The From the home of the co-breakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.

Welcome to the October edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.

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

when they saw Hutt 11 restored to its wartime atmosphere

with the new exhibition all about their work.

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

with the architect, Janie Price.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

is within living memory in the UK.

While filming in Alan Turing's office in Hutate,

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

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

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

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

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