Bletchley Park
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Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is the home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict. The site is now a museum and heritage attraction, ope...
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E183 - 'Ladies & gentlemen, go your ways!'
September 2025
In 1945, Britain celebrated VE Day in May and VJ Day in August, as the war - first in Europe and then the Fa...
E182 - "… and Peace at Last"
August 2025
On 15 August 2025 the UK commemorated the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, the day on which the surrender of Japan a...
E181 - Blitzkrieg in Burma
July 2025
By late 1944, the tide had turned against the Japanese in south-east Asia, with the repulse of their attempted in...
E180 - Dire Straits
June 2025
In May 1945 the Royal Navy fought its last surface action against the Japanese fleet, sinking the cruiser Haguro...
E179 - Dollis Hill Days
May 2025
During World War Two, Bletchley Park collaborated with several external engineering institutions in developing the...
E178 - VE Day 80: Objects and Memories
April 2025
To mark 80 years since the end of the war in Europe, this episode takes a closer look at four intriguing items f...
E177 - Vengeance from the Skies
March 2025
In 1943 there seemed to be few mysteries left unsolved for Bletchley Park. But by the middle of that year, whisp...
E176 - The Age of AI
February 2025
Here at Bletchley Park - one of the birthplaces of modern computing – our latest temporary exhibition ‘The Ag...
E175 - Decoding the Holocaust
January 2025
The 27th of January 2025 is the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp at Auschwitz...
E174 - Top Secret Misinformation Part 4
December 2024
For this year’s festive episode, we once again put the word out to our listeners: what baffles you about Blet...
E173 - Hunting the Beast Part 2
December 2024
On the 12th of November 1944 Germany’s largest battleship – Tirpitz – was sunk by British RAF Lancaster bombe...
E172 - Hunting the Beast Part 1
November 2024
On the 12th of November 1944 Germany’s largest battleship – Tirpitz – was sunk by British RAF Lancaster bombe...
E171 - Bletchley Park & Bomber Command Part 2
November 2024
The crews of RAF Bomber Command had one of the most hazardous jobs of the war. Flying by night to their targe...
E170 – Bletchley Park & Bomber Command Part 1
October 2024
The crews of RAF Bomber Command had one of the most hazardous jobs of the war. Flying by night to their target...
E169 - Learning the Ropes
September 2024
The Government Code and Cypher School employed thousands of people during the war. These varied from Cambrid...
E168 - Inside Hut 6
August 2024
Hut 6 was the section at Bletchley Park which broke the German army and air force Enigma ciphers. Historical ac...
E167 - The Forgotten Army
July 2024
In early 1942 one of the most disastrous defeats of the war saw British forces pushed out of Burma, now known as...
E166 - D-Day80 Part 3 Block D to Bocage
June 2024
To commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, we are releasing 3 special episodes to tell the full story of The...
E165 - D-Day80 Part 2 Overlord
June 2024
To commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, we will be releasing 3 special episodes to tell the full story of...
E164 - D-Day80 Part 1 Tide of Victory
May 2024
Over the next 6 weeks, to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, we will be releasing 3 special episodes to...
E163 - The Women of Newnham College
April 2024
Women were the backbone of Bletchley Park during World War Two. At its peak in January 1945, the workforce was 7...
E162 - Before the Codebreakers
March 2024
Bletchley Park is famous as the home of World War 2 codebreaking. But what was there before the Government Code...
E161 - Learning: Past, Present and Future
February 2024
In 2023, Bletchley Park Trust completed its biggest refurbishment project to date – a £13 million, three-phas...
E160 - Colossus in Context Part 2
January 2024
Eighty years ago, in January 1944, the first Colossus computer was delivered to Bletchley Park. This machine a...
E159 - Colossus in Context Part 1
January 2024
Eighty years ago, in January 1944, the first Colossus computer was delivered to Bletchley Park. This machine...
E158 - We Shall Fight to the Last Shell
December 2023
Eighty years ago this month Britain was marking its fifth Christmas of the war with still no end in sight. D-...
E157 - Security & Insecurity Part 2
November 2023
For our tenth anniversary episode, E141 “Security & Insecurity”, we discussed one of the most important facto...
E156 - Italian Tiebreaker
October 2023
The fight up the Italian peninsula involved some of the most arduous battles of the war for Allied soldiers, b...
E155 - Veterans’ Reunion 2023
September 2023
The annual Bletchley Park Veterans’ Reunion is one of the highlights of our year. A chance to welcome back t...
E154 - The Diplomatic Section
August 2023
This month we examine the often-overlooked story of GC&CS’s work on diplomatic codes and ciphers.
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E153 - Sicilian Deception
July 2023
In 1943, when the guns fell silent in Tunisia, a lull fell over the war in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, the work...
E152 - Sinclair in Focus
June 2023
Who chose Bletchley Park – a vacant estate in Buckinghamshire – as the wartime home of the Codebreakers? That dec...
E151 - Stored Secrets
May 2023
Like many heritage organisations, Bletchley Park Trust holds a collection within its storerooms. And we are always...
E150 - Communication is Key
April 2023
80 years ago, Bletchley Park’s communications centre opened in Block E. Employing hundreds of staff, mainly you...
E149 - Bletchley Park Poetry
March 2023
To celebrate World Poetry Day on the 21st of March, we have been looking into the poets and poetry of Bletchley...
E148 - A New Look at Newman
February 2023
The breaking of the German Lorenz cipher system was one of BP's most complex technical achievements. This wo...
E147 – Oral History 2023
January 2023
The Podcast Team wish all our listeners a Very Happy New Year.
To start the 2023 season of the...
E146 - Top Secret Misinformation Part 3
December 2022
Since the first two Top Secret Misinformation podcasts in 2020 & 2021, our listeners have been asking us to record...
E145 - Torch to Tunis
November 2022
The Allied victory in the Second Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 proved to be the beginning of the end of the...
E144 - Shark Attack
October 2022
In February 1942 the worst fears of the teams working on Enigma in Hut 8 and Naval Section were realised. The German...