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00:13When I came to college I had no idea that people from Newnham went to work at Bletchley Park
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00:26No idea at all.
00:28And that's because they'd signed the Official Secrets Act, and that meant they weren't going to talk about anything to
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00:35It was only when I saw articles later on I realised that women that I might have known had been
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00:58And these are women we talk about as if they are doing nothing.
01:03They are carrying that through their lives.
01:06They can't get a proper reference because nobody could say what they did.
01:11So they were said to be entirely satisfactory in their work, which is no reference for getting a good job.
01:19So they lived with the pain of it.
01:21They lived with the anonymity of it.
01:25And nobody was ever able to say thank you.
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