E30 - Crucial Contributions

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

January 2015

This month we are celebrating a cast of thousands who all made Crucial Contributions.

Back in November, the families of the three Polish codebreaking geniuses, whose work proved invaluable in the breaking of Enigma, visited Bletchley Park.

We take a look ahead at what’s new in 2015 with Bletchley Park’s Director of Learning and Collections, Victoria Worpole.

A memorial plaque has been unveiled at the site of Bletchley Park’s largest outstation at Eastcote, where Bombe machines were housed & operated by over 800 Wrens during WW2. There representing Bletchley Park were Oral History Officer Jonathan Byrne and Podcast producer Mark Cotton. After the ceremony, they chatted about what’s been a bumper year for the oral history project.

Finally this month, listen in to when we took Bletchley Park Veteran Rozanne Colchester into the newly renovated Hut 6 for the very first time.

Picture: ©shaunarmstrong/mubsta.com

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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.
0:41.5	Welcome to the January 2015 edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:47.4	This month we're looking at crucial contributions, that of the Polish mathematicians,
0:51.6	whose work proved invaluable in the breaking of Enigma at the start of World War II.
0:57.0	The contribution made by each and every person who worked at Pletchley Park, like Rosanne Colchester,
1:01.2	this month she shares her memories of what she's called that terrible war.
1:06.7	We'll hear what happened when a plaque was unveiled at the site of a bomb outstation in Eastcoat.
1:12.7	And take one last look back at 2014, at what a bumper year it's been for the Oral History Project,
1:17.1	gathering veterans' precious first-hand memories for future generations.
1:23.5	And we'll look ahead at what's new this year, with Bletchley Park's director of Learning and Collections, Victoria Warpole.
1:33.4	But first, the hit film about Alan Turing The Imitation Game has been nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
1:47.6	The film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the Luminary Co-breaker and Kira Knightley as his friend, colleague and fiancée Joan Clark, is also the subject of an exciting exhibition at Bletchley Park in the very room where pivotal scenes were shot.
1:53.0	The 87th Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on the 22nd of February.
1:54.1	Are you paying attention?
1:56.3	Based on the incredible true story.
1:57.0	Who are you?
1:57.7	Alan Turing.
1:59.0	It's an instant classic.
2:00.2	Welcome to Enigma.
2:01.3	It's unbreakable.
2:03.3	A superb thriller, five stars.
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