Extra - E42 - 2014 Christmas Special

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

December 2014

Bletchley Park Podcast – 2014 Christmas Special. 2014 has been a landmark year at Bletchley Park. It’s seen the transformation of the site, returning it to its wartime glory with phase one of the restorations. Royalty returned with not one but two Veterans in the family this time, and the stranger than fiction story of Alan Turing hit the silver screen.

Join podcast host Katherine and producer Mark as they take you on a virtual trip around the park and back through the year to hear Royalty, Hollywood Stars and of course lots of our wonderful Veterans.

Many thanks to The Three Belles for the use of their music. Their charity single for The Royal British Legion can be purchased here: http://thethreebelles.com/christmas-single

Thanks to everyone who took part in our show this year and thank you to our listeners. We will be back in the New Year with more stories from The Home of The Code Breakers and wish you all, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.

Picture: ©mcfontaine

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Transcript

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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.
0:36.6	Welcome. Welcome to the Bletchley Park podcast Christmas special 2014. I don't know when we'll ever be able to look back on quite such a year as 2014, a landmark year.
0:47.4	We knew it was going to be a busy year, but I don't think we realised quite how busy it was going to be.
0:52.6	Transformational is not an understatement.
0:54.6	We're standing outside Block C at the moment
0:56.1	where you now arrive to be welcome to Bletchley Park in our new visitor centre.
1:00.1	And what a difference.
1:01.1	This was derelict.
1:02.1	We had a confusing entrance.
1:04.1	Now it makes sense and it tells you the story.
1:06.3	Let's go inside.
1:07.2	What happened in January, Mark?
1:08.9	The year actually started on the very last day of last year for me,
1:12.4	because I was in the early hours recording an episode of the Angry History podcast
1:17.3	with our friends in the States, Owen and Dean.
1:20.5	Remind me what they wanted to talk to you about.
1:22.4	They fight against historical inaccuracies,
1:25.6	so they've done their own special on the Coventry myth.
1:29.3	And we gave them a recording of Sir Arthur Bonswell.
1:32.2	I've sadly passed away recently.
1:33.8	It did, unfortunately. And it was a nice piece because it looked at the human side, as well as
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