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🗓️ 17 September 2012
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September 2012
This week we will bring you the full version of the talk by Sinclair McKay about his next book which looks at the work of The Y Stations.
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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. |
0:36.7 | This is M.C. Fontaine, welcoming you to another Bletchley Park podcast Extra. |
0:41.6 | This week we have the full version of the talk given by Sinclair McKay at this year's Veterans Day. |
0:47.0 | It's on the subject of his next book, The Wise Stations. |
1:11.8 | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Can everyone hear me? Okay. Recognition has been a very long time coming. Not merely for all those brilliant veterans who worked within the bounds of Bletchley Park, but also for the thousands of veterans who were posted to the hundreds of Bletchley outstations all over the country and all over |
1:17.7 | the world. These were people who, at all hours of day and night, were tuning in to ever-changing |
1:24.6 | elusive enemy frequencies, headphones on, inhabiting a curious half-world, |
1:30.3 | and listening directly to the heart of the conflict. |
1:33.3 | These were veterans who were intercepting the German Enigma codes, |
1:37.3 | working flat out with diamond-sharp accuracy and quicksilver speed, |
1:42.3 | and sending the communications on to Bletchley Park. |
1:45.1 | Now I have to confess, before I started researching the secret life of Bletchley Park back |
1:49.8 | in 2009, I'd never heard of the Y service. |
1:54.4 | And during the course of working on that book, I still only had really, to be honest, |
1:58.8 | the most superficial idea of it and of how crucial really it was to the entire Bletchley operation. |
2:04.8 | All I knew is that it sounded suitably mysterious. |
2:08.1 | What did the Y in Y service stand for? |
2:11.9 | What went on in all those hundreds of outstations? |
2:15.5 | And who were the people who were sent to work at them. |
2:18.7 | What I also didn't quite grasp was the sheer scale of the operation. |
2:23.5 | Where did Bletchley Park get all its raw material from? |
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