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31 July, Intelligence Insight, number 013.

Welcome to this Bletchley Park, Intelligence Insight.

As COVID-19 struck, we decided to start releasing these extra episodes to give you our listeners something extra while you were in lockdown.

I'm glad we could share so many previously unheard recordings that we just hadn't been able to before,

and hopefully these shows have helped you through these extraordinary times, if even only in a small way.

Now, over the next few episodes, we'll start to return to our more normal podcast,

and eventually, are it happened here shows too.

So 18 weeks after we first started them, it seems only fitting that as our last intelligence

insight, we look at how Bletchley Park has finally managed to reopen to the public.

It's been a long journey which is still not over, but who better to hear from than some of our

paid and volunteer staff who've made it happen. So who better to start this special episode than our CEO, Ian Stanton? Ian, it's good to see you

after all these weeks. Good morning, yes. It's odd, really, having not been on the site for many months,

we're back here and see the place open, but it's great to be reopened again. A little bit strange

because obviously we're having to enforce social distancing to do this recording, so we're both

with radio mics on. But before lockdown before lockdown even did you expect this?

Well clearly as the crisis started to grow in February March of this year we were watching

very closely and there were a number of sites that closed down before us but in line with the

government direction we

closed on the 19th of March very swiftly sent people home really pleased that

the government introduced a furlough scheme which allowed us to send most of the

staff home we ended up with about 85% of the staff on furlough and the rest of the

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