E147 – Oral History 2023

Bletchley Park

January 2023

The Podcast Team wish all our listeners a Very Happy New Year.

To start the 2023 season of the podcast, producer Mark Cotton sits down with Oral History Officer Jonathan Byrne to catch-up on both our Roll of Honour and our continuing Oral History Project.

For the rest of the episode we have highlights of 3 selections from our Oral History Archive. As with previous years we have a theme … but this year the theme is unusual, they are all from people who didn’t work at either GC&CS or its Outstations. We hear from the 14 year old girl who made vital deliveries to the Codebreakers, a member of S.O.E., the Special Operations Executive and finally a Luftwaffe Radio Operator.

This episode features the following contributors from our Oral History Archive:

Jean Barratt
Lois Barefield
Rudi Schoberl

The Bletchley Park Roll of Honour can be found at:

https://bletchleypark.org.uk/roll-of-honour/

Image: ©Bletchley Park Trust 2023

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