ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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, open daily.
The Bletchley Park Podcast brings you fascinating stories from Veterans, staff and volunteers on the significance and continued relevance of this site today.
Hosts:
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Average audio length:
46 minutes
Guest interviews
English
297 episodes
since Aug. 4, 2012
episodic
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
September 2026
Most of the wartime staff at Bletchley Park were serving away from their homes and loved ones. But almost nobody actually lived on site. So where were they housed, and how were they fed? Billets - assigned living quarters - had to be found in the local area. These could vary enormo…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
August 2026
Bletchley Park Trust was proud to celebrate our first 'Polish Codebreaking Festival' in July 2026 with over 2,000 members of the public, musicians and Polish community groups on site.
We also welcomed a group of experts whose works bring attention to tales of Polish wartime heroism a…
July 2026
Lord Asa Briggs – the Keighley-born historian of the Victorian age and of broadcasting, served most prominently as vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex and later Chancellor of the Open University. He was one of Britain’s most influential public intellectuals of the 20th Century. …
June 2026
The story of the vital contribution of Polish codebreakers to the cracking of Enigma before World War Two is well known, but what happened to those codebreakers after the invasion of Poland in 1939?
In this episode we follow the long and winding path of the Polish cryptanalysts from War…
May 2026
Against the backdrop of war and secrecy, the Codebreakers of Bletchley Park were often able to enjoy comfort in music. From choirs to orchestras, gramophone evenings to opera, music appears again and again as a recurring motif in the social lives of those working at the Government Code &…
April 2026
Thriving in the world of wartime codebreaking took more than just smarts and skill.
Tact, diplomacy and organisational talent were needed to achieve results and navigate the fractious politics of the intelligence community.
In these circumstances even the most shining of lights could b…
March 2026
The 28th of March 2026 will be the 85th anniversary of the naval Battle of Cape Matapan, fought by the Royal Navy against the Italian fleet in the Mediterranean. The battle was a significant victory for the Allies and cast a shadow over the Italian navy, making them reluctant to chall…
February 2026
Even amongst the distinguished ranks of WW2 codebreakers, Emily Anderson stood out. Recruited into military intelligence during WWI, her stellar career in diplomatic codebreaking lasted into the 1950s. Her greatest achievement came with the breaking of high-level Italian ciphers dur…
January 2026
Rome: the 1930s, and the Italian secret services were having extraordinary success in reading the messages sent by rival countries’ diplomats from their embassies in the ‘Eternal City’.
With the road to World War Two still ahead, it was a time of significant geo-political tension. T…
December 2025This is the fifth instalment of our annual episode where we celebrate the oncoming festivities of the snowy season - religious or secular - with a surfeit not of turkey and roasties but of questions! Questions sent in by our listeners, gifted to us through the medium of social media.A …
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