Talking Books have been in the newspapers recently with some interesting articles by author Sinclair McKay about the recording process. Find out more about his experiences and why tactical snacking is important!
Sinclair McKay is the author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park which is available to borrow now on RNIB Talking Book.
About the book
"Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain's most brilliant mathematical brains, like Alan Turing, and the scene of Immense advances in technology - indeed, the birth of modern computing.
Sinclair McKay's book is the first history for the general reader of life at Bletchley Park, and an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties - of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed Angus Wilson, the novelist, once thre himself in) - of a youthful Roy Jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels - and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each other's work."