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The From the home of the co-breakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.

Hello, this is M.C. Fontaine. I'm the producer of the Blechley Park podcast.

This is the first in what we plan as a series of extra content that you'll be able to download

between the monthly podcast being released. So for the next few weeks, these will all be recordings

that were made at the Turing Education Day, which was held on a 30th of June 2012

at Blexley Park. This is where a number of eminent speakers were brought together to celebrate

Alan Turing's centenary. Each of the talks are based around one of the many fields that Turing

worked in during his short life. But for this first one, we have the introduction to the day

made by Lord Charles

Brockett, who was the Master of Ceremonies. That's then followed by Sir John Dermott-Turing,

Alan Turing's nephew, given us more of the family's insights. We'd like to thank the

Alan Turing year for supplying these recordings. They also have an account on Audiaboo

where you can find more content based around Alan Turing and his life.

Ladies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome to Bletchley.

It's an odd thing that I'm here and it's a so strange of strange coincidence, because when I was in the army, I knew about Bletchley.

Well, every army person did.

And I came here about four years ago, filming with my youngest son, we were filming some sort of D'F TV program that had a sort of code-breaking element to it. So I ended up here

and I was completely gobsmacked by what I saw. I simply, I sort of in my naive way, I'd assumed

that a country values sufficiently its real assets to look after them. I just, just couldn't understand it. Buildings falling down

and the place desperately needed funds. So from that day, I thought, right, well, we must all do

something about it. I wrote a proposal for the BBC and did a short film which we showed a can

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