E161 - Learning: Past, Present and Future
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park
4.8 • 177 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In 2023, Bletchley Park Trust completed its biggest refurbishment project to date – a £13 million, three-phase project, to open up wartime buildings at the heart of the site for the very first time.
The final phase saw Block E, once the wartime Communications hub of Bletchley Park, transformed into two new resources – the Block E Learning Centre – which includes eight learning spaces able to accommodate learners from primary school pupils to students in higher education – and the Fellowship Auditorium, a state-of-the-art, 250-seat, presentation and event space.
In this special episode, we join Lily Dean, Learning Manager, and Vicki Pipe, Head of Audiences and Programmes, as they give us tour of the new spaces, and reveal the inspiring activities learners can enjoy as part of our award-winning learning programme. Dr David Kenyon, Research Historian, and Dr Thomas Cheetham, Research Officer, also bring to life the wartime and post-war history of this once closed off building.
Image: Learners in Block E ©Bletchley Park Trust 2024
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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. |
| 0:39.7 | Welcome to the February |
| 0:41.1 | 2024 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast. |
| 0:45.1 | Now, a slightly different opening to our normal this month |
| 0:48.8 | because we have a slightly different episode. |
| 0:52.5 | Regular listeners to the podcast will know that over the last few years, |
| 0:56.0 | Bledchley Parker's had three major projects running. |
| 0:59.7 | First of all, we had the opening of Block A and our Intelligence Factory exhibition. |
| 1:04.9 | That opened up that block for the first time ever to the public. |
| 1:09.5 | Last year, we took you to the opening of the collection centre. |
| 1:13.6 | Again, maybe not open to the public in general but that's the first time these buildings |
| 1:18.4 | have been used post-war by Bledewski Park. Then finally in October 2023 we opened the third |
| 1:24.3 | of those projects our brand new learning centre in the former wartime Block E. |
| 1:29.3 | Now to celebrate this, we're going to do a slightly different episode this month. |
| 1:33.3 | I've got two members of the learning team with me, and they're going to take me through this amazing new building. |
| 1:40.3 | But at the same time, our brace of historians, David Kenyon and Thomas Cheatham, are going to interject with some historical backgrounds. |
| 1:50.0 | So we know what happened here during the war and what's happening in the future. |
| 1:55.0 | Now with me, I have... |
| 1:57.0 | I'm Lily Dean and I'm the Learning Manager. |
| 1:59.0 | Hi, I'm Vicki Pipe and I'm head of audiences and |
| 2:02.8 | programmes. Lily, really simple question to start with easy answer for you. Why do we have a learning |
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