Flora Lichtman
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5,343 appearances
86 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Flora Lichtman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thanks for having me.
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How did you come across this story?
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And you, this is sort of a topic near and dear to your heart, right?
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Because you have a background in Russian language.
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Take us into the so-called traffic processing division where these black women codebreakers were working.
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Millions.
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I mean, this is big data before big data.
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How did these Black women find themselves working there?
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Were they recruited?
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Mm-hmm.
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I mean, did these women come in with specialized knowledge?
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Were they learning Russian at the agency?
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One of the women's stories you tell in the book is of Iris Carr.
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Tell us a little bit about her and her journey.
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A manager.
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We talk about computing a lot on the show and the history of computing.
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And I think often we have a very specific image of a person in our heads and he's wearing a turtleneck.
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These women are working right around the time when computers are introduced, I think, right, in the late 1940s.
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How are they part of that history?
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I mean, given that, were these women able to sort of build off of this experience?
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