Below is an announcement from Wilmington Community Television’s “Book Stew:”
I’m so pleased to welcome back local author and podcaster Jane Healey for a discussion of her fifth historical fiction novel, The Women of Arlington Hall, in the September Book Stew episode!
While reading an issue of Smithsonian Magazine, Jane discovered an article about the top-secret Venona Project, created to decipher coded messages about the atomic bomb being shared between spies in the US and the Soviet Union, before, during, and after WW II. Based in Washington DC, the team of cryptanalysts were primarily women, though no reason was ever given for their preference in the roles, which involved complicated pattern recognition and problem-solving skills. The work was so highly classified that even President Truman did not know of its existence.
Jane Healey is also the host of Historical Happy Hour, a podcast featuring such renowned authors as Kristin Hannah, Rhys Bowen, and Fiona Davis.
Listen to the podcast version on SoundCloud HERE.
Eileen MacDougall is the host/producer of 140+ episodes of Book Stew, a web series and podcast originating in 2013, featuring every variety of authors, illustrators, poets, and playwrights, plus a cat that survived a tornado and lived to write about it!
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