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The From the home of the codebreakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.

Welcome to the September 2018 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast.

Veterans Reunion, Part 2.

During World War II, more than 10,000 people worked for GCNCS, either a Bletchley

Park, its outstations, or connected branches, both civilian and military.

This gives us a wealth of different stories to be able to tell, and in this second visit to this

year's reunion, we'll bring you three more exclusive interviews with our veterans.

We hear how 17-year-old Tom Howey thought joining the RAF would be his route to escape working on a farm,

but a failed medical and a visit from a man from Montrose sent him off to London for secret work

for the radio security service monitoring German radio transmissions. Watching London being

bombed early in the war gave Pauline Lee what she's described as a huge surge of patriotism.

After an interview at the Foreign Office, her prayers were answered, and she found herself

at Bletchley Park for the next four years. But first, RAF's sergeant Stanley Clegg served

from 1943 to 1945 in the RAF, and with Special Liaison unit 8 in North Africa, Italy and France.

His fascinating story includes jockeys hiding from the Germans

and having to give up his nice, warm palace for a tent.

Many thanks to this episode's roving reporters, Sarah Langston and Kerry Howard.

Well, I'm Stanley Clegg. I'm now 95 years of age, getting on a bit.

And I was a member of SLU8, one of the special liaison units.

I was trained initially at the Government Code and Cipher School in Oxford,

and I went from there to Broadway, where I was for probably five or six weeks then to a big radio station which

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