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Bletchley Park

E32 - Turings Pay Tribute

Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park

History

4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

March 2015

This month join us on a very special tour of Bletchley Park, when more than twenty members of Alan Turing’s family gathered to pay tribute to his contribution to the war-winning intelligence that emerged from this unassuming country estate. It was a poignant visit for members of his family, some of whom had never been before and most who’d never met the man. Sir John Dermot Turing, a Trustee of Bletchley Park and Alan Turing’s nephew, took the opportunity to talk about exciting plans to tell the story of his uncle’s co-invention, in the newly restored Hut 11A.

Find out what year six pupils from Greenleys Junior School in Milton Keynes thought of their free school trip to Bletchley Park, when they became the first school to take advantage of a pilot bursary scheme, funded by Winton Global Investment Management.

Graham Moore has become a member of Hollywood’s most exclusive club, an Oscar winner. Graham won the little gold statue for his script for The Imitation Game, adapted from Andrew Hodges’ biography of Alan Turing. Dermot Turing gives us his reaction to the news and we have edited our previous interviews with Graham for this episode. We send him our congratulations and thanks.

Finally this month we bring you a very poignant interview with another of our wonderful Veterans. Bombe Wren Joan Martin was one of a number of women who joined the Navy only to find they were on dry land and operating state-of-the-art machines that helped speed up the codebreaking process. Joan talks about her days working at the outstation, Eastcote, where she worked with her life-long friend Joyce Rogers.

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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.

0:43.9

Welcome to the March 2015 edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.

0:47.4

This month we hear from screenwriter Graham Moore,

0:52.0

whose adaptation of Andrew Hodges' book made him and the film The Imitation Game members of Hollywood's most exclusive set, Oscar winners.

0:56.1

We'll hear what the Year 6 is from Greenlee's junior school in Milton Keynes made of their free school trip to Bletchley Park

1:01.8

when they became the first school to take advantage of a pilot bursary scheme.

1:06.4

And we'll hear from a bomb ren, one of the women who joined the Navy, only to find out they'd be on dry land and operating state-of-the-art machinery that helped speed up the code-breaking

1:15.8

process. Joan Martin was singled out during basic training along with her lifelong friend Joyce,

1:21.3

and they ended up working as a pair at the outstation in Eastcut. But first we take you on

1:25.8

a very special tour of Bletchley Park with more

1:28.1

than 20 members of Alan Turing's family. They came to walk in their famous relatives footsteps,

1:33.9

seeing the places where his work helped shorten the war. More than 20 members of Alan Turing's

1:39.2

family gathered at Bletchley Park to pay tribute to his contributions to the war-winning

1:43.4

intelligence that emerged from this unassuming country estate. Arguably, the most well-known of the

1:49.4

Code Breakers, Turing's tragic death contributed to his fame, as well as his breathtaking achievements.

1:55.1

So it was a poignant visit for members of his family, some of whom had never been before,

1:59.7

and most who'd never met the man.

2:02.0

Dermott Turing, a trustee of Bletchley Park and Alan Turing's nephew, took the opportunity to talk

2:07.1

about exciting plans to tell the story of his uncle's co-invention in the newly restored

2:11.8

Hutt 11A.

2:23.3

Good. Good morning, welcome to the first part. It's good to have a fantastic team-turing turnout.

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