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

Welcome to another Bletchley Park podcast Extra.

Four women whose top secret jobs with the government code and cipher school during World War II

came together to tell their unique stories at Bletchley Park presents the real women of Bletchley Park one Sunday in July.

After the talks, podcast producer Mark Cotton caught up with Gwendolyn Page,

who was a wren in the naval section from 1944

and has since written books about her memories.

I volunteered at 17 for the Wrens and was called up at 18, went to the Wrens training at Mill Hill,

which is called Pembroke 3, and we learned all the naval terms.

Our corridor became the main deck, and our bedrooms were cabins.

Where you had your meal was the mess, and the folks all was where you relaxed, and various things like that.

So we learnt a lot of naval terms. They did ask me in an interview

if I spoke German. I said very badly. And could you speak any German? I could speak some

German, but I learned at school, but it wasn't a suitable German for this, you see. So if I had

been fluent in German, I'd probably been sent to the

Y service listening in to the German signals, as many of our people were, who sent the signals

to us. So anyway, I didn't know what was going to happen. They sent me to new college for a little

while. Fortnite, I think, I was there working on Nightwatch, which I didn't like very much.

Then they just told me to get into the transport next day, and I was whisked off, and I was hoping I was going to a port.

And let me guess, you got a railway warrant to Bletchley?

I didn't even get a railway warrant.

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