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🗓️ 1 December 2013
⏱️ 32 minutes
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December 2013
In this month’s Bletchley Park Podcast we brought you some highlights of the day we spent with two amazing Veterans, Norah Boswell, a Wren Bombe Operator who was stationed at Stanmore & Joyce Roberts, a WAAF Teleprinter Operator at Bletchley Park.
In this extended version join tour guide Mike Chapman as we roll back 70 years for these two amazing ladies & listen in as Norah gets her revenge on The Bombe & Joyce finds a dear old friend in the Hut she worked in.
It is times like this that make producing the Bletchley Park Podcast such an honour.
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Bombe, #Enigma, #Veterans, #audiowrangler, #mcfontaine
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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. |
0:37.4 | Welcome to another Bletchley Park podcast Extra. |
0:40.8 | There really is no predicting who will pop in to Bletchley Park |
0:44.2 | and what secrets they'll reveal about what happened here during World War II. |
0:48.5 | In the last few months alone, we've heard Sir Arthur Bonsel telling the tale |
0:51.9 | of why stones were put around the oval. |
0:54.5 | The bud children talking about climbing trees and seeing the comings and goings of the co-breakers |
0:59.2 | around the clock, and bomb wrens taken back in time by a recreation of a bossy boots warrant |
1:04.4 | officer in Hutt 11. |
1:06.1 | Podcast producer Mark Cotter and tour guide Mike Chapman met some women who recalled how |
1:10.5 | the pneumatic conveyor system was used in Block E, |
1:13.6 | not for vital intelligence, but live frogs plucked from the lake. |
1:24.5 | One of our visitors here today at Bletchley Park, we're very pleased to have here. She is a veteran, Nora. |
1:30.2 | Today she's known as Nora Boswell, but during the Second World War, she was Nora Knight. |
1:34.9 | Nora, would you please tell us where you were based and what you did? |
1:37.9 | I was based at Stammore, which was one of the outstations for Bletchley, and I was a bomb operator. |
1:45.3 | You mentioned before this that you came here once before. |
1:49.1 | Would you like to tell us the story behind how you came to Blechley Park? |
1:52.1 | I came to Bletchley once because I was sent up on remand |
1:56.3 | because I've been late three times for duty. |
2:00.2 | And so I had to come and see the chief officer up here. |
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