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E128 - Whitehall 7947 - The Early Days Exhibition
August 2021
Hindsight and the lifting of decades of secrecy, allows us to know that by 1945 Bletchley Park had become a ‘codebreaking factory’ supply…
4 years, 5 months ago
E127 - Top Secret Misinformation Part 2
July 2021
In late 2020 we asked on social media for any questions our listeners wanted the podcast team to answer. We had so many that we needed to…
4 years, 7 months ago
E126 - Barbarossa
June 2021
Eighty years ago in June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in what Hitler hoped would be a lightning campaign to destroy Bolshevi…
4 years, 8 months ago
E125 - Fall Gelb Part Two
June 2021
By late May 1940 the Germans have arrived at the French coast, cutting the Allied forces in two. Their risky invasion plan ‘Fall Gelb’ (o…
4 years, 8 months ago
E124 - Fall Gelb Part One
June 2021
In May 1940, the much-anticipated German attack on France brings the Phoney War to an end. The French have the largest land army in the wor…
4 years, 8 months ago
E124 - Oral History Special No. 7
May 2021 In this episode we bring you the second part of our interview with SLU Intelligence Officer Patricia Johnston. This time Oral History Volun…
4 years, 9 months ago
E123 - Oral History Special No. 6
April 2021 Patricia Johnston’s idyllic childhood in Rangoon came to an abrupt end on the 7th of December 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbour. In …
4 years, 9 months ago
E122 - Never Alone
April 2021 Bletchley Park’s latest temporary exhibition is called ‘Never Alone’ and asks ‘what happens when everything is connected?’ Based on an …
4 years, 10 months ago
E121 - Oral History Special No. 5
April 2021 Our Veterans who served in one of the three women’s auxiliary services during World War Two are always proud of their particular branch…
4 years, 10 months ago
E120 - Oral History Special No. 4
March 2021 In our last Oral History Special we brought you the first part of a 2017 interview with former WREN, Mary Sherrard. From 1942 until the…
4 years, 11 months ago