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The real life Bletchley Park ladies

I thought it was far too over dramatic which spoilt it. It leads you to making mistakes of things which weren't quite true.

Lady Marion Body on The Imitation Game

Ahead of The Imitation Game's multiple Oscar nominations, the real life Bletchley Park ladies join us to talk about official secrets and their reaction to the film and other TV portrayals of their lives during the World War II.

Lady Marion Body and Marigold Freeman-Atwood feature in a book just out called The Debs of Bletchley Park: a look at the eight thousand women who helped win the war.

Of the film, Lady Marion Body said: "There were things that weren't quite true. I think it was very wrong to portray Commander Dennison as an enormous rumbustious man.

"He was actually a rather quiet man, who was actually very nice."

The paid admitted they find it hard knowing know that everyone knows they were involved in the done during theSecond World War at Bletchley Park.

Marigold said: "I found horrid to talk about it. I somehow felt signing the Official Secrets Act your lips were sealed for life."

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