E100 – Légion d’honneur
December 2019 At the end of each year we like to focus on the important work that our Oral History Officer Jonathan Byrne and his team of staff and volunteers carry out. The interviews they record ...
12 Des 20191h 11min
E99 - 100 Years of Codebreaking
November 2019 In this month’s 2nd episode celebrating the anniversary of the creation of GCHQ, where better to learn more about those 100 years than in the heart of its current Headquarters. We w...
21 Nov 201959min
E98 - GCHQ at 100
November 2019 During WW1 the United Kingdom had two separate cryptographic organisations, the Navy’s Room 40 & the Army’s MI1(b). Both had major codebreaking success during the conflict but it was ...
11 Nov 201942min
E97 - Early Days
October 2019 “Gas masks are to be taken” so ends what seems a rather mundane government memo dated the 2nd of August 1939. It importance becomes apparent when you discover this was the Move Order s...
10 Okt 20191h 13min
E96 - Market Garden
September 2019 By early September 1944, with the Normandy Campaign behind them, 6 Allied Armies were racing across Northern France and into the Low Countries. Ahead of them the remnants of the Germ...
17 Sep 20191h 1min
E95 - Veterans’ Reunion 2019
September 2019 Each year, to mark the arrival of the first Codebreakers at Station X in 1939 we hold our Veterans Reunion. This year it was made more poignant as the date fell on the 80th anniversa...
10 Sep 201952min
E94 - 90 Days
August 2019 In earlier episodes this year we have concentrated on the preparations for, and the events of D-Day itself, the 6th of June. However D-Day was only the beginning of the Normandy Campaig...
10 Aug 20191h 4min
E93 - The GPO and GC&CS
July 2019 Most people now know of the work carried out by Tommy Flowers and his team that ultimately led to the design and construction of ‘Colossus’, the world’s first large-scale electronic digit...
23 Jul 20191h
