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Welcome to this additional episode of the Bletchley Park podcast.

David Kenyon presents Bletchley Park and D-Day.

On June the 6th, 2019, here at Bletchley Park, we ran a number of events to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

Never before seen handwritten decrypts were released to the public, and we took over

Twitter for the day to tweet those very messages in real time, as if it was 1944.

You can now find these messages on our website.

In this episode, we take you to the dining room of the iconic mansion

to hear our research historian, Dr David Kenyon.

This is a talk he gave on the day to celebrate the launch of his new book,

Bletchley Park and D-Day, which is published by Yale University Press.

Thank you very much. Let's just do a show of hands. How many people have actually seen the exhibition?

I'll get me coat then. I will apologise in advance that you won't be surprised to hear that I draw some of the same conclusions that are drawn in the film.

That's because that film has been the last two and a half years of my life.

I'm trying not to watch it for a few months because I've seen it so many times every single frame.

So the research I've been doing was mainly to support the exhibition project, but we decided fairly on in the process that it was a natural step to turn that research also into a book.

And as always, these things seem like a brilliant idea when you start.

And now I'm standing here with it published, it seems like a brilliant idea when you finish,

but there are points in the middle when you wonder what the hell you're doing.

But anyway, what I'm going to try and do this afternoon is going to a little bit more depth

about the story which we inevitably have to tell in headline form across the way.

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