E186 - Top Secret Misinformation - Part 5
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park
4.8 • 177 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This is the fifth instalment of our annual episode where we celebrate the oncoming festivities of the snowy season - religious or secular - with a surfeit not of turkey and roasties but of questions! Questions sent in by our listeners, gifted to us through the medium of social media.
A selection of these holiday treats, where we bust myths and reveal hidden histories, has been made by Team Podcast who are all present and correct for this episode. Who are Team Podcast? Erica Munro (Head of Content), Dr David Kenyon (Research Historian), Dr Thomas Cheetham (Research Officer) and podcast producer Mark Cotton.
We have six of our listeners' finest questions to share with you - we will do five of these as a usual Q&A, but look out for the sixth question - relating to pets - as we intersperse our interview with simian Siginters' sidekicks, and canine Codebreakers' companions.
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Photograph of Corporal Dionne, a dog, on watch at Gorleston.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The from the home of the codebreakers and the birthplace of modern computing. |
| 0:32.6 | This is the Bletchley Park podcast. |
| 0:39.1 | Welcome to the December 2025 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast. |
| 0:44.9 | Top Secret Misinformation, part five. |
| 0:49.1 | This is the fifth instalment of our annual episode where we celebrate the oncoming |
| 0:53.7 | festivities of the snowy season, |
| 0:56.1 | be they religious or secular. We celebrate with a surfeit, not of turkey and roasties, no but |
| 1:01.2 | questions, questions from our listeners gifted to us via the medium of social media. |
| 1:07.4 | A selection of these holiday treats where we bust myths and reveal hidden histories |
| 1:12.0 | has been made by Team Podcast, who are all present and correct today. But who are |
| 1:18.4 | team podcast? Along with me, Erica Munro, head of content at Bletchley Park. We have our |
| 1:24.7 | research historian, Dr. David Kenyon. Hello. |
| 1:29.3 | Our research officer, Dr. Thomas Cheatham. |
| 1:30.0 | Good day. |
| 1:33.1 | And the wonderful podcast producer, Mark Cotton. |
| 1:33.8 | Hello. |
| 1:37.7 | We have six of our listeners' finest questions to share with you today. |
| 1:45.2 | We'll do five of these, as a usual Q&A, but look out for the sixth question relating to pets as we interspers our interview with Simeon's Siggintas sidekicks and canine co-breakers companions. Thank you to Dr David |
| 1:51.2 | Kenyon for all that alliteration. I'm going to interrupt you there. I think she deserves a round |
| 1:56.8 | of applause for that intro. |
| 2:03.3 | Is that because I have fist, it flu? |
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