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🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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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 | 22nd of May, |
0:24.0 | Intelligence Insight, number zero zero six. |
0:29.0 | Welcome to this Bletchley Park, Intelligence Insight. |
0:33.1 | In this episode, we stay with the attack on the Lorentz code that Bill Tut played such an important part in |
0:35.5 | with a first-hand account. |
0:39.1 | Captain Jerry Roberts worked with Bill Tut in the testery, cracking what they called Tunney, the German High Command's |
0:44.2 | Code, used by Hitler and his top generals. Jerry tells us what it was like to work in the |
0:49.7 | testery, why breaking Tunney was so important to the ultimate Allied victory victory and of his three heroes of Bletchley Park. |
0:57.5 | Jerry's was the last of the day of talks held in 2012 as part of the celebrations of Alan Turing Centenary. |
1:03.5 | He's introduced by Lord Charles Brockett, who acted as Master of Ceremonies for the day. |
1:24.8 | Ladies and gentlemen, the last speaker of the day, we are very lucky to have Jerry Roberts here with us. |
1:31.4 | Now, I first met Jerry not long after, I met up formally with Bletchley Park. |
1:37.0 | That day I was filming with my son and I thought I knew so much about the place and I realized I didn't really know much at all. As a result of that, I went to meet one or two people and we filmed |
1:43.2 | them with a company that I was working with |
1:45.5 | for a documentary. |
1:47.3 | The second person that I filmed after Mavis Beatty was Jerry. |
1:52.4 | And what a surprise. |
1:54.3 | Bright as a button doesn't miss a trick with a razor sharp memory. |
2:00.4 | And then when I wanted to find out what he actually did, |
2:04.3 | he wasn't so interested in telling me what he did. He was more interested in telling me what |
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