Fropm UCL Provost's Newsletter : UCL alumnus Captain Jerry Roberts

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UCL Provost's Newsletter - 19 September 2011
From: Malcolm Grant, UCL

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I am grateful to Prof Susanne Kord, UCL German, for the following update 
on UCL alumnus Captain Jerry Roberts, who played a major part in 
code-breaking at Bletchley Park in the Second World War, a topic he spoke 
about at UCL in March 2009.

On 15 July this year Jerry was one of a small group of surviving veterans 
honoured by Her Majesty the Queen at Bletchley Park. He's had and will 
continue to have opportunities to tell his story on the BBC; he was on 
their breakfast show on 14 July; a 1-hour documentary entitled 
'Codebreakers', which will, in part, feature Jerry's work, will air on
BBC-2 TV on 2 October.

He's still quite active, dealing with the press attention with grace and 
aplomb, and ( at now 90 ) half-way done with his memoirs, which I'm sure 
will be well received once he publishes them....


http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0811/08112602

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0903/09031601