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🗓️ 15 December 2014
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December 2014
It’s been an extraordinary year at Bletchley Park and the icing on the cake would be to reach a record-breaking attendance level of 200,000 visitors before 31 December 2014.
We can do it with the help of our listeners.
The 200,000th visitor will be celebrated with prizes and greetings from Bletchley Park VIPs.
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0:00.0 | Bledchley Station, Blechley Station. |
0:07.0 | That was the environment where men and women, from all walks of society, from all abilities, came together to try and crack a code, |
0:14.0 | or many codes actually, that were the encryption devices of the Nazis, and they were winning the war. |
0:20.0 | The country was starving, the clock was ticking. |
0:22.6 | And to understand the importance of that is also to understand the importance of those men and women |
0:27.6 | and the actual environments of where it happened. |
0:29.6 | So to experience something of that through the extraordinary exhibits and explanations, you get both of the working environment and the tools, |
0:36.6 | the actual, you can see the machine, |
0:38.3 | you can hear the machine working. |
0:40.3 | And it's amazing. |
0:41.3 | You think from that came a reading of a code that basically won us the Second World War. |
0:47.3 | Some estimate by two years, and that meant millions of lives were saved. |
0:56.5 | And it was all done in secret. |
0:58.2 | And now we can look at that secret. |
1:00.2 | So how could that not be one of the most important legacies we have in our culture of that era? |
1:02.6 | It's incredibly important that it keeps going, |
1:04.5 | incredibly important that it's open to the public |
1:06.2 | and something that's well-funded and supported |
1:08.7 | and continues because this is our history. |
1:12.6 | If A-list movie stars are telling you to come and visit Bletchley Park, what are you waiting for? |
1:17.4 | Help us reach a landmark of 200,000 visitors at Bletchley Park in a year for the first time. |
1:23.6 | If you're lucky enough to be that 200,000 visitor, you will be treated to a day out beyond your wildest imagination. |
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