Andrew Chatterton

So for example, in Norfolk, there was a gate.

If there was a horseshoe on the gate, if the horseshoe was facing up, there was no message.

If it was facing down, there was a message.

And then in the side of the gate was a fake gate bolt and you'd pull it out and it was hollow and the message would be in there.

So then you take it onto the next dead letter drop, that would continue going and it would end up with a civilian.

Are you full of bullshit, Andrew?

They'll never believe that.

It talks a lot about to the guys that they were recruiting.

I mean, a lot of this stuff was because each of these people knew their area really well.

So what's going to work in my particular area?

So Norfolk, rural, let's stick it in a big old gate.

Trying to think about my...

Yeah.

So these messages would end up with a civilian wireless operator who would have his wireless set.

So quite often...

So basically, they're recruiting these types of people, the elderly mothers, doctors, vicars, because they're not going to attract the attention of the German army.

If you've got a 35-year-old farmer standing on the street staring at the army going through, that's going to grab the Germans' attention.

A mother pushing a pushchair or an elderly woman hobbling along the roads is not going to attract their attention.

And likewise, the people that had the wireless sets were vicars and doctors and people like that.

So in Wales, there's a vicar who had the wireless set under his altar.