even the bletchley park story is often told through the great inventors like alan turing.ve in 1944, it's effectively a code breaking factory, isn't it? >> it was a factory. it's a really highly organised from a to b to c to this, that hut and into the bombe room back and then decrypts it. and then it had to be paraphrased and somebody picking it up wouldn't know that it was the original message . message. >> that's a really important point. so you are the coalface of the decryption with the bombe machine. but once this ultra rich material is being harvested, you then have to translate it differently from the original german. you have to rewrite it. yeah. so the germans don't know that you've been reading their hand. >> yeah, like the good old fashioned rac that we used to do at school. >> could you spend what it was like to first meet a bomb? and what those bombs did? >> well, we met the bomb . it was >> well, we met the bomb. it was a little bit surprising. it was a little bit surprising. it was a very tall. i think it was seven feet high, six foot wide, about two foot d

even the bletchley park story is often told through the great inventors like alan turing.live in 1944, it's effectively a code breaking factory, isn't it? >> it was a factory. it's a really highly organised from a to b to c to this, that hut and into the bombe room back and then decrypts it. and then it had to be paraphrased and somebody picking it up wouldn't know that it was the original message . message. >> that's a really important point. so you are the coalface of the decryption with the bombe machine. but once this ultra rich material is being harvested, you then have to translate it differently from the original german. you have to rewrite it. yeah. so the germans don't know that you've been reading their hand. >> yeah, like the good old fashioned rac that we used to do at school. >> could you spend what it was like to first meet a bomb? and what those bombs did? >> well, we met the bomb . it was >> well, we met the bomb. it was a little bit surprising. it was a little bit surprising. it was a very tall. i think it was seven feet high, six foot wide, about two foot

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they occupied numerous vital roles , including at bletchley roles, including at bletchley park, whereong their number was ruth bourne. nowadays she's 98, but then she was a young wren, fighting the same war as the men on the beaches. ruth operated one of alan turing's bombe machines that helped decrypt enigma encoded communications. >> we were initially told the work we were doing was specialised . it was to be quite specialised. it was to be quite hard work . hard work. >> so you are the coalface of the decryption with the bombe machine. but once this ultra rich material is being harvested, you then have to translate it differently from the original german . you have to the original german. you have to rewrite it. yeah. so the germans don't know that you've been reading their hand? yeah, like the good old fashioned procedure that we used to do at school . that we used to do at school. could you say what it was like to first meet a bomb and what those bombs did? >> well, we met the bomb. it was a little bit surprising. it was a little bit surprising. it was a very tall. i think it was

we did a report on bletchley park earlier on, and judy says this.ure our freedoms. i cannot thank these incredibly smart ladies enough . thank smart ladies enough. thank goodness for their unique talents and that they were not wasted. but loads of emails on sir keir starmer and his energy policy. a lot of you don't think much of his great british energy policy . see this. labour and the policy. see this. labour and the tories always talk big. we will do then in power they do nothing. things can only get worse and on on, on starmer's energy policy, gerald says this labour's policy on north sea oil seems like madness . it supplies seems like madness. it supplies about 75% of our present oil and gas, and that means we have to buy it elsewhere. we will need huge quantities until 2050 and beyond, and cassie adds this the oil companies will not invest as much if they are taxed too heavily by the labour party, and thatis heavily by the labour party, and that is their problem. they see pound signs in successful companies , tax them to the hilt companies, ta

park, helped bnng helped at bletchley park, helped bring the war to a speedy conclusion.ated lead in time, allowing automated machines that accept cash to be updated to recognise the new design. so much has gone on behind the scenes. it's not a case of just changing the printer. >> where do you think the photo was taken of the king? >> i think it's i mean, it does it does look quite like him. you know, sometimes you think if they said, what image would you like on the banknote, you might go, oh, can you pick one from about 20 years ago because he's on he's on there twice. but but he does look like him now. possibly a little younger maybe. yeah. yeah. it's maybe a little flattering but grey. yeah. >> that's fine. >> that's fine. >> absolutely. so they of course a lot of people want to get rid of this stuff. >> i can cash you can, of course, still use the ones with the queen on for a little while at least. right. let's see what you've been saying at home. barbara. we were talking about keir starmer. keir starmer not being able. not smiling, not looking jolly, even though he

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ruth didn't get a bletchley park medal until the late 1990s, and then the resistance.ifferent if it hadnt been complete different if it hadn't been for not just doing something in the war didn't make my life different , but when it my life different, but when it all came out, the importance of what we'd done, i was very privileged to have been chosen. and no , i'm very privileged . and no, i'm very privileged. thank you ruth, thank you for sharing . sharing. >> the modesty, the modesty, the privilege for her to be part of that extraordinary operation. because cracking the enigma code definitely speeded up the end of the war. you stopped the u—boats taking out all our merchant shipping. extraordinary. and there she says, it was a privilege for her to be part of it. i think it was a privilege just to hear her. >> wasn't it written with a pen and paper? yeah. now up next, we are being warned about ticket fraud and scams online. we'll have some tips to stop you being a victim of it's too easy to be fooled. this gb news. it's 1150. so. gb news. it's1150. so. music and sport