E63 - Veterans' Reunion 2017 Part 2

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

September 2017

There were so many memories shared at this year’s Veterans’ Reunion, that we’ve split this month’s episode into two parts. This time, we’ll hear some of the longer conversations, as people who spent part of their youth carrying out vital war work, tucked away in the Buckinghamshire countryside or at one of Bletchley Park’s equally secretive outstations. They went on to keep their lips sealed about what they’d done for at least another 30 years. Now, when the memories begin to flow, the best thing to do is sit back, listen and feel inspired by their incredible achievements.

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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.
0:42.4	Welcome to part two of the September episode of the Bletchley Park podcast,
0:48.4	The Veterans Reunion. This year's reunion was so packed with veterans keen to share their memories that we've had to split it into two parts, and this is part two. This time we'll
0:53.8	bring you some of the longer conversations.
0:56.6	The story of how the government code and cipher school cracked Hitler's fiendishly complex codes
1:01.9	and produced war-winning intelligence lives on in the memories of the people who worked there.
1:07.6	They were, for the most part, a very young bunch, and many were away from home for the first
1:12.2	time, so it's never just the work, they remember.
1:15.3	So let's take you back to a warm afternoon in September, somewhere in the Buckinghamshire
1:19.3	countryside, to hear more memories from the veterans themselves.
1:26.8	The night. You made my You made my life so glamorous
1:39.3	You can blame me for me for feeling amorous
1:47.0	Oh, it's wonderful, marvelous
1:53.0	That you should be.
2:03.6	Can you tell me who you are?
2:07.6	I'm Betty Turner.
2:09.6	And where did you work in the war?
2:11.6	I was a wireless operator in Morse Code receiving in Winslow in Buckinghamshire.
2:18.3	I was in the OREF.
2:20.3	And what joined?
2:22.3	What did that entail? What were you doing?
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