E16 - Frogs over the Air

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

November 2013

This month, with so much happening at Bletchley Park recently, we have to bring you an extended episode.

First we grab Hard-Hats & Hi Viz Jackets to join Conservation Architect Janie Price & Site Manager Rob Davies to get an in-depth update on the HLF Restoration of Bletchley Park, from floorboards to granite floors, via the roof.

In October Bletchley Park hosted Are You Listening? The event looked at the history of communications. We spoke to members of Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society, the British Vintage Wireless Society & the Vintage & Military Amateur Radio Society.

Also in October Cyber Security Challenge UK & Raytheon held an event called Today, Then and Tomorrow. It looked at the role of women in cyber security, celebrating the Bletchley Park Veterans, leading figures of today & a look into the future. Katherine spoke to Natalie Black of the Cabinet Office, after we found out just what her job title was. We will bring you the rest of this fascinating day in Podcast EXTRA’s – E29 (out on 24/11/13).

Final join us as we walk around with two amazing Veterans, Norah Boswell, a Wren Bombe Operator who was stationed at Stanmore & Joyce Roberts, a WAAF Teleprinter Operator at Bletchley Park. Look out for Podcast EXTRA’s – E30 (out on 31/11/13) for even more from what was a great day for us all.

You can find … Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society at www.mkars.org.uk British Vintage Wireless Society at www.bvws.org.uk Vintage & Military Amateur Radio Society at www.vmars.org.uk

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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.
0:37.2	Welcome to the November edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:41.2	This month our bomb experts are taken to task by a veteran, women in cyber security, or the lack of them.
0:47.7	And we meet some communication historians with fascinating collections on show in the mansion.
0:53.2	But first we donned hard hats and hivis
0:55.4	to find out how the restoration of Bletchley Park is progressing.
1:05.4	We said a few months ago that Block C was starting to look like its old self,
1:10.3	but now it's really coming back to
1:12.0	life. We took a floor-to-ceiling tour of the rapidly progressing work, and we were given
1:17.3	rare access underneath the scaffolding covering huts 3 and 6. So we're sheltering from the rain
1:23.3	under the scaffolding between huts 3 and 6. I'm with Rob Davis, Fairhurst Ward Abbott's site manager
1:28.9	and conservation architect, Janie Price, with Kennedy O'Callaghan.
1:33.4	So tell me where we're up to.
1:35.2	We've now basically encased the huts with a scaffold and a tin roof
1:39.5	to protect them from the elements.
1:41.2	The challenge was with that, normally you would tie a scaffold to the building or scaffolding.
1:45.0	The problem we've had here is because the huts are quite fragile.
1:46.9	We've had to build a very large independent scaffold.
1:50.1	And that requires huge water buttresses which tie the scaffold down.
1:53.9	Hence why we've got this rather grand scaffold towering over Bletchley Park at the moment.
1:58.1	Much bigger than the buildings themselves, obviously.
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