E174 - Top Secret Misinformation Part 4
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park
4.8 • 177 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
For this year’s festive episode, we once again put the word out to our listeners: what baffles you about Bletchley Park, and what myths and misconceptions would you like our resident Historians to investigate and interrogate?
Bletchley Park’s Head of Content, Erica Munro, is asking the questions, with Research Historian Dr David Kenyon and Research Officer Dr Thomas Cheetham fielding queries on uncracked ciphers, captured codes, cribbing, declassification … and, of course, Christmas.
Many thanks to Dr Ben Thomson for voicing our archival documents.
Image: ©Bletchley Park Trust 2024. Children’s Christmas party hosted by US 6813 Signals Security Detachment at the Manor House, Little Brickhill, from the photograph album of Francis Hayward Stanton.
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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. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to the December |
| 0:40.5 | 2024 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast. |
| 0:45.5 | Top secret misinformation, part four. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm going to hand straight over to our usual host, Erica. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you, Mark, and welcome and Merry Christmas to our podcast listeners. |
| 1:00.7 | Team Bletchley Park podcast is gathering around the hearth of intellectual curiosity |
| 1:05.0 | and warming our hands with the festive fuel of questions from our listeners. |
| 1:09.9 | As usual, with the format of top secret |
| 1:12.4 | misinformation, we have been asking our listeners what they most want to know about Bletchley |
| 1:17.5 | Park. Now, the group with us today are the usual gang. We have Bletchley Park's research historian, |
| 1:22.8 | Dr David Kenyon. Hello. We have Bletchley Park's research officer, Dr Thomas Cheatham. Hello. And you just heard from podcast producer Mark Cotton. Hello. We have Blatchew Park's research officer, Dr Thomas Cheatham. |
| 1:28.2 | Hello. |
| 1:28.9 | And you just heard from podcast producer Mark Cotton. |
| 1:31.3 | Hello. |
| 1:32.1 | And there's me, Head of Content, Erica Munro. |
| 1:39.3 | Now, we asked our listeners what they'd most like to hear, and a most popular question that we received on social media was inevitably about the codes and ciphers at Bletchley Park. |
| 1:54.0 | Why not kick off? I'll send it straight over to David Kenyon and ask what codes and ciphers defeated the codebreakers at Bletchley Park? |
| 2:01.2 | This is a very good question because there is a perception that basically everything that |
| 2:05.6 | the Axis Powers said or did, Bletchley Park somehow knew about it. |
| 2:09.1 | And this wasn't necessarily true at all. |
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