E18 - You Must Not Mention This Conversation

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2014

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

January 2014

This month we take you exclusively behind the scenes during filming of The Bletchley Circle, hearing from the Producer, Standby Art Director & Bletchley Park Trust staff who were cast as supporting actors, to safeguard machines which belong to GCHQ.

We hear from Veteran Audrey Wind, whose story is featured as a DVD extra, who was told when she was recruited: “You must not mention this conversation to any living person.” Years after the war, she was spotted by a fellow alumnus of Bletchley Park & the secrecy they shared caused all sorts of suspicion about their relationship.

This month’s Podcast also lets you in on the plans for the fragile wooden huts being restored as part of the £8m, Heritage Lottery Funded restoration, with details of how their stories will be told.

Hear about how actors will bring Bletchley Park to life with the Living History Project. Liv Spencer tells us what she will be looking for during the auditions.

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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 2014 and the January edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:42.2	This month we take you exclusively behind the scenes of the Bletchley Circle,
0:46.4	finding out how they transported Bletchley Park back to not only 1943 but also 1953,
0:52.8	with an attention to detail most of us can't imagine.
0:56.3	As the series gets underway on ITV, we hear from a real Wren bomb operator, who was told when she was recruited,
1:03.0	you must not mention this conversation to any living person.
1:06.7	And years after the war, she was spotted by a fellow alumnus of Bletchley Park,
1:11.2	and the secrecy they shared caused all sorts of suspicion about their relationship.
1:16.1	We'll also let you in on plans for the fragile wooden huts being restored
1:20.2	as part of the £8 million heritage lottery-funded restoration,
1:24.6	with details of how their stories will be told.
1:29.4	But first, Bletchley Park will come to life as never before when the Living History Project gets underway in February half term.
1:35.4	Actors will take on the roles of codebreakers and machine operators and will interact with visitors
1:40.7	as though they too were working at the Government Code and Cipher School in February
1:45.2	1941.
1:47.1	Liv Spencer is running the pilot project on behalf of the Bletchley Park Trust.
1:51.6	I caught up with her during auditions.
1:57.9	We're inside Cottage One in what might seem to be at first glance an unremarkable room,
2:04.6	but this was one of many rooms around the site which may look unremarkable now,
2:08.6	but we used as part of the co-breaking office space back in World War II,
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