E92 - The D-Day Dodgers
July 2019 In this It Happened Here episode we leave the invasion of Western Europe and return to the hard fought battles of the Italian Campaign. Since first invading in September 1943, Italy had...
9 Jul 20191h 2min
E91 – David Kenyon presents: Bletchley Park and D-Day
June 2019 On June the 6th 2019, Bletchley Park ran a number of events to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Never before seen handwritten decrypts were release to the public and we took over Twi...
20 Jun 201948min
E90 – Overlord
June 2019 75 years ago today, more than 150,000 allied troops were boarding planes, gliders and landing craft as they prepared to invade Fortress Europe in Operation Overlord, the Normandy Invasion...
5 Jun 201954min
E89 - Bletchley Park and D-Day
May 2019 With the opening of D-Day: Interception, Intelligence, Invasion, the key role that Bletchley Park played in the success of the Normandy campaign is finally being told. Now, a new book wri...
23 Mai 201923min
E88 - The Tide of Victory
May 2019 It Happened Here this month takes us to a Britain who’s south coast in May 1944 resembled one huge army camp as over 2 million men waited for D-Day. In the Buckinghamshire countryside the...
9 Mai 201958min
E87 - D-Day: Interception, Intelligence, Invasion
April 2019 In this month’s episode we take you to the preview opening of a major new exhibition, D-Day: Interception, Intelligence, Invasion. For 18 months prior to the launch of Overlord the ...
15 Apr 201955min
E86 - From Cassino to Kohima
March 2019 In this It Happened Here episode we go back to the spring of 1944 when much of Europe, and indeed the world held its breath awaiting the ‘Second Front’ in Europe. This would be realised...
10 Mar 201958min
E85 - Drama at Bletchley Park
February 2019 This month we leave the code breaking behind and focus on what became an important part of the Off-Duty time for many of the staff at GC&CS during World War 2. Working long shift...
10 Feb 201952min
