4.8 • 177 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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May 2014
Bestselling author & Bletchley Park Trustee, Michael Smith discusses the life & work of John Tiltman, whom many consider may have been Britain’s greatest ever code breaker.
For these highlights we have concentrated on the lesser known parts of Tiltman’s life, both before & after his time at Bletchley Park.
This talk was recorded at last year’s sell-out day of talks,
Codebreakers’ Legacy. If you would like to attend a similar
event in the Bletchley Park Presents series, then please go to
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ & look in the What’s On
section.
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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. |
0:36.9 | This is M.C. Fontaine, welcoming you to another Bletchley Park podcast Extra. |
0:43.1 | In this episode, we bring you another of the talks from last year's Code Breaker Legacy event that was held at Bletchley Park. |
0:49.5 | It's best-selling author and Blexley Park trustee, Michael Smith. |
0:54.0 | Michael discusses the life and work of |
0:55.9 | John Tilton who many consider |
0:57.7 | may have been Britain's greatest ever codebreaker |
0:59.9 | for these highlights |
1:01.7 | we decided to concentrate on the lesser known parts |
1:04.0 | of Tilton's life both before |
1:05.8 | and after his time at Blechley Park |
1:07.6 | if you'd like to attend a similar event |
1:10.1 | to this in the Bletchley Park. If you'd like to attend a similar event to this in the Bletchley |
1:10.9 | Park Present series and please go to www.bletchleypark.org.org and look in the what's on section. |
1:20.4 | So now over to another one of our excellent previous speakers and Bletchley Park volunteer, |
1:25.4 | Bob Horner, to introduce Michael Smith. |
1:33.7 | Without further ado, can I just welcome Michael Smith? Michael, you wrote the first book |
1:38.1 | that I've ever read about Bletchley Park. I hope none of you here have written the last one I |
1:43.1 | read about Bletchley Park and we look forward to hearing all about what you're going to be telling us. |
1:49.0 | Well, we've been talking about different people who had made different contributions to |
1:54.0 | Bexchery Park and it's interesting the question, who was the greatest co-breaker, |
2:00.0 | because it's not necessarily a great co-breaker who is an |
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