E36 - Find a Codebreaker in your family

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

July 2015

This brand new episode celebrates five years of the Roll of Honour, which aims to record all those who worked at Bletchley Park and its outstations during World War Two. It now holds nearly 11 thousand names, as well as a rich archive of memories, anecdotes and photographs.

Also this month, hear from Bletchley Park Veteran Betty Webb MBE, about how keeping news of her honour secret for seven weeks was harder than sticking to the Official Secrets Act for more than 30 years. Betty was named in the Birthday Honours list for remembering and promoting the work of Bletchley Park.

Time is rapidly running out to see The Imitation Game, The Exhibition. It features costumes, the replica Bombe machine built for the Oscar-winning film about Alan Turing plus drawings, props and exclusive interviews with the actors and director talking about what it was like to shoot parts of the story where it really happened - in the rooms where filming took place. Hear the moving acceptance speech given by screenwriter Graham Moore when he took home the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. Plus, we take one last peek behind the scenes during filming at Bletchley Park as well, in a never-heard-before interview with the Oscar nominated Production Designer Maria Djurkovic and Location Manager David Broder.

Meanwhile, the school holidays are fast approaching. Fear not, we have all the entertainment you need to keep the kids occupied. Details of BrightSparks@BletchleyPark are in this month’s episode.

Picture: ©Crown. Reproduced by kind permission, Director, GCHQ

Special thanks to everyone at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for allowing us to use Graham Moore’s acceptance speech, especially Lawreen Loeser for all the help.

#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #Enigma, #WW2Veteran, #History, #TheImitationGame

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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 July 2015 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast. Find a codebreaker in your family.
0:56.0	We're celebrating five years of the role of honour, the record of those who worked at Bletchley Park and its outstations during World War II, which now holds nearly 11,000 names, as well as a rich archive of memories, anecdotes and photographs. Also this month, we'll bring you the moving acceptance
1:01.6	speech given by the screenwriter of the imitation game, Graham Moore, as he won the Oscar for
1:06.6	Best Adapted Screenplay. We'll take one last peek behind the scenes during filming at Bletchley Park
1:11.8	as well in a never heard before interview with the Oscar nominated production designer Maria
1:16.9	Jercovic and location manager David Broder. I'll explain why in a minute. And we'll hear from a woman
1:22.8	who's awaiting a highly coveted invitation to be given she hopes by her Majesty the Queen herself.
1:29.3	Bletchley Park veteran Betty Webb has been given the MBE in the birthday honours list
1:34.3	and says that was harder to keep secret than her wartime co-breaking work.
1:38.3	But first, time is rapidly running out to see the imitation game The Exhibition.
1:43.3	It features costumes, the replica
1:45.4	bomb machine built for the film, plus drawings, props and exclusive interviews with the actors
1:50.8	and director, talking about what it was like to shoot parts of the story where it really happened,
1:56.2	all in the rooms where filming took place. The imitation game is about the life of Alan Turing
2:01.5	and stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Kira Knightley.
2:04.4	It attracted sackfuls of award nominations
2:06.6	but took home only one big one.
2:09.0	The Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay went to screenwriter Graham Moore.
2:13.3	He took the story of this remarkable man
2:15.2	from the pages of Andrew Hodges' biography,
	...

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