Re: GCHQ on Radio 4, Tue 30 March

Any idea if this programme will be sent on BBC knowledge also so we can see it  ?


rgds  Ragnar   in Telemark

--- Den søn 2010-03-28 skrev Martin Postranecky <mp-/[email protected]>:

> Fra: Martin Postranecky <mp-/[email protected]>
> Emne: Re: [BPARK] GCHQ on Radio 4, Tue 30 March
> Til: BLETCHLEYPARK-0lvw86wZMd/[email protected]
> Dato: Søndag 28. mars 2010 19.34
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Mark Baldwin
> wrote :
> -----------------------------------------
> > There is a programme about GCHQ scheduled for
> > 20.00 to 20.40 on BBC Radio 4, Tuesday 30 March.= 
> > In 'GCHQ: cracking the code', Gordon Corera goes
> inside
> > Britain's secret listening station.
> > Mark Baldwin
> 
> 
> see :
> -----
> 
> THE SUNDAY TIMES
> March 28, 2010
> 
> GCHQ : Spooks in socks and sandals
> ----------------------------------
> Forget the glamour of 007. We get inside GCHQ and find it
> is geeks with 
> mathematical minds and a bad dress sense who keep us safe
> Government Communication Headquarters ( GCHQ ) in the west
> of Cheltenham
> 
> Gordon Carrera
> 
> Tucked away on the outskirts of Cheltenham is a vast
> circular structure 
> wrapped in razor wire. Getting inside requires passing
> through layer after 
> layer of ever-tightening security. Everyone in the town
> knows what it is 
> "Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ ) - but few
> secrets of 
> its work emerge.
> 
> With about 5,500 employees, GCHQ is Britain's largest but
> least 
> well-known intelligence agency. Its mission is to eavesdrop
> on global 
> communications, hunting for the terrorist phone call,
> Taliban radio 
> traffic or a telling email from a foreign government.
> 
> GCHQ operates in a hermetically sealed bubble of security.
> But the 
> building - known as the doughnut because it is round with a
> hole in the 
> middle - is open and airy. Casually dressed people stroll
> down the main 
> thoroughfare, "the street", chat in coffee bars or work in
> open-plan 
> offices. Signs for "serious crime" and "Asia-Pacific team"
> hint at 
> the breadth of their work.
> 
> Intruders are unusual in this closed world. As I am
> escorted around, a 
> voice comes across the PA system : "Blinds facing "the
> street" in 
> blocks A and B should be closed immediately." A glance
> through a window 
> might reveal something secret...../snip/
> 
> 
> ....The dangers of this work are evident from a walk
> through the grassy 
> open-air space in the middle of the building. There, in one
> corner, is a 
> memorial to the small number of staff who have died in
> service. The names 
> show that more fatalities have come in Afghanistan in
> recent years than 
> anywhere else.
> 
> - GCHQ : Cracking the Code is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday at
> 8pm
> 
> 
> http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article7078644.ece
> 

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