Speaker Colin White has identified the locations and condition of around twenty-five World War II covert listening stations (known as “Y-Stations”) in the West Country, many along the strategically important coastlines of the English and Bristol Channels.
They collected vast quantities of encrypted enemy radio messages, which were the raw material for the codebreakers at Bletchley Park who, it is believed, shortened the war by as much as two years. The Y- stations were staffed by a diverse group of people, including members of the Army, Navy, RAF, Foreign Office, GPO, and the Marconi Company.
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