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Welcome to the August 2018 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast. Countdown to D-Day.

In August 1943 at the Quebec conference, the Allies began the initial discussions for what would ultimately become Operation Overlord, the invasion of France in 1944.

So it seems fitting that 75 years later, Bletchley Park have released the plans for what will be an exciting new exhibition, opening in spring 2019.

D-Day, Interception, Intelligence Invasion, will tell the story of the vital role that GCNCS played in

informing the D-Day invasion. It will introduce the people involved and show how different kinds

of intelligence were used by the Allies to enable the invasion of Normandy on the 6th of June

1944 with precise detail. In this episode, we'll take you behind the hoardings of the teleprinter building.

Our research historian, Dr. David Kenyon, tells us how the restoration has revealed a wealth

of new insights into the buildings.

But first, exhibitions manager Erica Monroe explains why this story is so important.

Erica, can you tell us why this new exhibition is going to be so important to how we tell the full story of Bletchley Park?

Well, whilst elsewhere on the site, we've been able to talk in quite a lot of detail

about the co-breaking work that went on

here and the people that did that work. We haven't really had the chance to look at the bigger

effect of what that had on the war, the role that work had in wartime. But the exhibition that we're

looking at now, the D-Day exhibition, will really give us the opportunity

to look at the impact of Bletchley Park's work on the wider wall.

Well, that's the thing, isn't it?

We tend to, I suppose we could be found a little guilty maybe of the fact that we concentrate

on the capturing of the radio signals and then the decryption of that and how important

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