Extra - E19 - Nick Coffer Part 1

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2013

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

April 2013

In the last episode of Podcast we gave you just a small flavour of The Third Enigma Challenge that was held in March.

For 4 days GCHQ’s Historical Section were based at The Big Bang Fair at London’s ExCel Centre were sending Enigma Coded Messages for the Bombe Rebuild Team to try and crack back at Bletchley Park.

On the Friday Nick Coffer of BBC 3 Counties Radio presented his afternoon show from Block B at Bletchley Park and that’s what we will be sharing with you over the next two Extras episodes.

So a huge thank you goes to The BBC 3 Counties OB Team, Emma Smith & Gareth Lloyd, Nick Coffer of course, The Bombe Rebuild Team & The 3 Belles.

#BPark, #Enigma, #BBC3CR, #NickCoffer

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0:00.0	The From the home of the co-breakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:36.4	This is M.C. Fontaine, welcoming you to another Bletchley Park podcast Extra.
0:42.0	In the last episode of the podcast, we gave you a small flavour of the third Enigma challenge that was held in March.
0:48.5	For four days, GCHQ's historical section were based at the Big Bang Fair at London's Excel Centre, sending
0:55.4	enigma coded messages for the bomb rebuild team to try and crack back at Bletchley Park.
1:01.3	On the Friday, Nick Koffer of BBC Three Counties Radio presented his afternoon show from Block
1:06.4	B at Bletchley Park and that's what we'll be sharing with you over the next two extras
1:10.6	episodes.
1:19.6	Love afternoons. Love Nick Koffer. BBC, Three Counties Radio.
1:25.7	And welcome to Bletchley Park live today.
1:28.4	We're code breaking in Bletchley Park.
1:31.3	I've never been to Bletchley Park.
1:32.5	I've never been to Bletchley Park.
1:32.6	Very much looking forward to spending my afternoon here this afternoon and bringing
1:36.1	it to life for you.
1:37.4	I've heard about it so much.
1:38.6	It's my first ever visit.
1:40.2	I've had a fascinating hour already.
1:41.6	I'm going to be code breaking. It's the Enigma code breaking challenge today. We've also got music from the 1950s. Well, they're actually from 2013,
1:48.4	but the three bells are going to be singing live for us. And of course, with it being comic relief,
1:52.4	we'll be looking ahead to all the comic relief events happening across the three counties today.
1:57.6	Three hours live from the brilliant Bletchley Park with me, Nick Koffer.
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