Intelligence Insight No. 003

Bletchley Park

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🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

April 2020

Over the years we have been very fortunate to welcome the families of some of our more famous Codebreakers for a visit to Bletchley Park. The families always have such an immense pride in their ancestors and the work they did for GC&CS and it’s always an honour for the podcast to sit down with them for our listeners.

Following on from our last podcast, Invasion Norway, where we looked at the vital work Harry Hinsley carried out in the Naval Section, we go back to 2017 when two of his children, Clarissa & Hugo paid a visit with 3 generations of the family. They not only speak about their famous father but also their mother Hillary who also worked at Bletchley Park.

We will then hear from Gordon Welchman’s grandson Geoffrey on his first visit to Bletchley Park and how emotional it was for him.

Finally we sit down with Welchman’s biographer Dr Joel Greenberg, his granddaughter Jenny and two Veterans Jimmy Thirsk and Betty Webb as they discuss his wartime work and his book The Hut 6 Story.

Image: ©Bletchley Park Trust 2020

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0:00.0	Top Secret for Senior Officer, immediate.
0:15.0	Decipher and pass to all relevant sections.
0:19.0	17th of April, Intelligence Insight, number 003.
0:24.6	Welcome to this Bletchley Park Intelligence Insight.
0:29.6	Over the years we've been very fortunate to welcome the families of some of our more famous codebreakers
0:34.6	when they've come for a visit to Plexley Park.
0:43.0	The families always have such an immense pride in their ancestors and the work they did at GCNCS during the war. And it's always an honour for the podcast to sit down with them so we can share
0:47.4	their stories with our listeners. Following on from our last podcast, Invasion Norway, where we
0:53.7	looked at the vital work Harry Hinsley
0:55.4	carried out in the naval section, we go back to 2017 when two of his children, Clarissa
1:00.7	and Hugo, paid a visit with three generations of the family. They're not only talk about
1:06.5	their famous father, but also their mother, Hilary Brett Smith, who also carried out vital
1:11.6	work at Bletchley Park during World War II.
1:13.6	And it's where they met.
1:15.6	I'm Clarissa Lloyd.
1:25.6	My maiden name is Hinsley, and my father was Sir Harry Hinsley, and my mother was Hillary Brett Smith.
1:31.3	And I'm Hugo Hinsley, the son of Harry Hinsley and Hilary Brett Smith, and we have another brother. So there are three of us who grew up together in Cambridge after the war when not unusually there was a wartime
1:46.3	romance and then they married in 1945 I think didn't they immediately yeah 946
1:52.9	946 1st of April 1946 they married and then decided to settle in Cambridge where my father
2:00.1	had been an undergraduate before he was recruited
2:02.3	to British Park. How many members of the family have we had here today? I think about 12.
2:07.6	Yeah, 12th. Including the third generation, the youngest. I was going to say it's been three
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