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🗓️ 28 September 2013
⏱️ 22 minutes
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September 2013
Earlier in the year we interviewed some of the original members of The Bletchley Park Trust who gave us an insight into how they started to save Bletchley Park.
In this episode we bring you an interview with Doreen Sawyer, the lady, that original trust member Peter Wescombe climbed through the fence to speak to, and that started the ball rolling.
Doreen worked at Bletchley Park from 1955 for the CAA and she tells us some of the post war history of the park and about organising the very first Enigma Reunion.
Special thanks to BBC 3 Counties Radio for use of their studios to record the interview.
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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. |
0:43.6 | This is M.C. Fontaine, welcoming you to another Blexley Park podcast Extra. |
0:47.2 | Earlier in the year, we interviewed some of the original members of the Blexley Park Trust, who gave us an insight into how they first started to save Bletchley Park. |
0:52.0 | Well, in this episode, we bring you an interview with Doreen Sawyer, |
0:55.5 | the lady, the original trust member, Peter Westcom, |
0:58.4 | climbed through the fence to speak to, to start the ball rolling. |
1:02.1 | She tells us some of the post-war history of the park |
1:04.3 | and about organising that very first Enigma Reunion party. |
1:08.9 | A special thanks goes to BBC Three Counties Radio for use of their studios to record this interview. |
1:13.9 | So now, over to your podcast presenter, Catherine Lynch. |
1:22.9 | So can you tell me what your job was at Bletchley Park? |
1:25.9 | Well, I worked for the Civil Aviation Authority. |
1:28.4 | I was what they called an HEO, which is higher executive officer. |
1:32.6 | I was in charge of the administration of the college. |
1:36.7 | We took in students from all over the world on aviation. |
1:40.9 | So you're more or less running the site then? |
1:42.7 | We have a principal, obviously, who was the head, |
1:46.2 | but I was in charge of the admin-like students coming in, |
1:50.9 | recording them, and that kind of thing. |
1:53.0 | Right. |
1:53.3 | Also in charge of the budget of the college. |
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