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

This is M.C. Fontaine, welcoming you to another Bletchley Park podcast Extra.

In the last episode, we gave you a small excerpt of Martin Davidson's talk that he gave at Bletchley Park

about the book he's written tracing the history of his grandfather.

So over the next two extras episodes, we'll be bringing you the entire talk and discovering the perfect Nazi.

Please welcome Martin Davidson.

Well, thank you so much for coming out.

First of all, just to say thank you for coming in the middle of a freezing cold January night.

I applaud your tenacity and your commitment to history.

I feel particularly honoured to be doing this at Bletchley Park.

My day job is I'm a commissioner for history television at the BBC,

and we have the huge pleasure of commissioning and making a film about Bletchley Park,

went out last year called The Code Breakers of Blackchley Park,

which told the story of Bill Tutton, Tommy Flowers,

and it was a wonderful, wonderful film, and I can't commend it enough to you if you haven't seen it.

Brilliant local guys explaining with chalk how all those calculations work that Colossus was based on.

Don't ask me to recount it.

I was stupefied.

There's a great line that Byron wrote in Don Juan about German philosophy, and he was describing

Coleridge.

Coleridge spends his day explaining metaphysics to the nation.

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