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🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny. |
0:04.0 | Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s. |
0:08.0 | Tea break. |
0:09.0 | Lunt break. |
0:10.0 | Maybe listen to the outbreak. |
0:12.0 | Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right? |
0:15.0 | It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down |
0:23.9 | tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org |
0:29.4 | welcome it's time for the second of our Rosebud Christmas Crackers. These are two special surprise shows in the run-up to our Christmas special program that's released on Friday. Let's get ready to pull the second Christmas Cracker. All held hands now, make sure you give it a really good, and let's find out who's inside. |
0:59.0 | Oh, it's someone very special. |
1:07.7 | Our guest is Patricia Outram. You may not know the name, but you'll want to hear the story. |
1:14.3 | She's a centenarian who was involved in critical code-breaking work during World War II. |
1:19.1 | Every now and then on Rosebud, we're going to introduce you to a guest who isn't famous in the obvious celebrity sense of the word, but who is interesting because they've led a fascinating |
1:24.6 | life. |
1:25.5 | Patricia Outram is the first of these people. She was born |
1:29.2 | literally 100 years ago. She grew up in Lancashire. She learned German from the family's |
1:35.6 | Austrian cook, and it was this skill which led her to get a job as part of the White Service run out |
1:41.1 | of Bletchley Park when the Second World War started back in 1939. |
1:45.6 | She signed the Official Secrets Act and didn't even tell her family the nature of her work. |
1:51.0 | Her main job was interception, listening into the shipping broadcasts of the German fleet. |
1:57.3 | In recognition of her services, Pat won the Léjean d'Ares, the highest French award of merit. |
2:03.6 | She now lives in Chiswick, West London, and very kindly invited me into her home for this conversation, which I begin, I must say the first thing I noticed when I came into your room on the mantelpiece was a card featuring the king and the queen. It really happens. People when |
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