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November 17, 2020
Congratulations to OW Jenny Wicks (P SH 1990 – 1998) of Jenny Wren Productions for producing this fantastic radio production – BLETCHLEY GIRLS a world premiere by Lou Beckett.
“Germany is winning the war, England’s being bombed into oblivion… and MI6 is depending on a small team of girls working in a freezing hut in the English countryside to break Germany’s most secret code.”
Inside Bletchley Park, Dilly Knox enlists a small team of young women to crack some of the enemy’s toughest codes. Whilst Margaret Rock is a trained statistician, the newest recruit is Mavis Lever, 19 years old and a student of German romantic poetry. A friendship develops between this unlikely pair as pressure mounts on them to decipher intercepts which will impact the course of the war. It’s a phenomenal task – “We must know what Hitler knows” – and they work against the clock – and the odds. But it’s not all night shifts and Enigma machines; there are dances, pranks, and even a touch of romance.
Jenny Wren Productions presents the untold true story of two female code-breakers at Bletchley Park at the height of World War II in this brand new radio drama.
Bletchley Girls was originally intended to be a stage play, but the Covid-19 pandemic prompted us to adapt, and we spent lockdown turning it into a radio play and recording it. We’re thrilled to announce that it is now live, in three half-hour episodes and you can listen here. The links will be live until November 2020. Enjoy!
Click on the links here to listen:
Episode 1 – https://youtu.be/KyoeFUzzMKk
Episode 2 – https://youtu.be/fyj8D5j7yvk
Episode 3 – https://youtu.be/gD4Y84C89pc
With thanks to all involved, Bletchley Park and our funders Thirty Percy and the Gloucestershire Funders Covid-19 Response.
If you enjoy listening, we would be very grateful if you would make a donation via our JustGiving page to support the company: Link
