E20 - A Proud Moment

Bletchley Park

History

4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

March 2014

Children’s TV presenters Dick & Dom came to Bletchley Park to film a programme about Alan Turing. Absolute Genius with Dick & Dom will be on CBBC on the 12th March. We caught a quick word with them between takes.

Battlefield History TV is making a fascinating documentary about the Bletchley Park story which will soon be available on DVD. We bring you a taste of what will be in the finished programme with Iain Standen interviewing Veteran Bombe Wren Sue Winn & Bletchley Park Historian Joel Greenberg talking about his new biography of Gordon Welchman, Bletchley Park’s Architect of Ultra Intelligence.

The official histories of Huts 3 & 6 were written shortly after the war was won by the actual people who worked in them during WW2. Historian & founding member of the Bletchley Park Trust, Peter Wescombe, gives an insight into the minds of ordinary men & women doing extraordinary jobs.

We take you back to February 1941 as actors brought the mansion to life with The Living History Project. The actress playing the Wren had a personal connection to the Bletchley Park story as her grandfather was a Bombe maintainer at Eastcote & Stanmore. Eric Hume came all the way from Devon to see her in action & we interview a proud grandfather.

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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.
0:37.1	Welcome to the March 2014 edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:41.9	This month we take you back to February 1941 as actors bring the mansion to life,
0:47.5	including the moment when a veteran bomb maintainer had the pleasure of seeing his granddaughter playing a wren.
0:53.8	We hear fascinating revelations about his own dramatic experiences,
0:57.8	including playing David Niven's legs.
1:00.6	We hear about the forthcoming biography of one of Bletchley Park's lesser-known geniuses, Gordon Welchman,
1:06.2	and will delve into the official histories of Huts 3 and 6,
1:09.8	as they're lovingly restored to their
1:11.6	wartime condition. But first, a pair of veteran children's TV presenters turned up a few months
1:17.3	ago to film a program about Alan Turing. Absolute genius with Dick and Dom will be on
1:22.7	CBBC on the 12th of March. I caught a quick word with them between takes.
1:34.3	Thank you. on the 12th of March. I caught a quick word with them between takes. A damp bottom at Bletchley Park is not that unusual.
1:37.2	Is this your first visit here?
1:38.5	It is our first visit here and we're finding very, very interesting, very.
1:42.5	You must have been doing quite a lot of reading up on allan turing yeah we
1:45.6	have actually and the interesting thing about the series that we're doing which is called absolute
1:49.0	genius is that we start this kind of five-day journey not knowing much about these people at all
1:54.6	we may have heard of them or know the basics but then we learn as the viewers do when they're
1:58.7	watching it so so much It's been really fascinating.
2:02.5	So what's leapt out to you about this story?
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