Summary Part of Codes and Code-breakers Week on WW2TV The Far East Combined Bureau, an outstation of the British Government Code and Cypher School, was set up in Hong Kong in March 1935, to monitor Japanese, and also Chinese and Russian intelligence and radio traffic. Later it moved to Singapore, Colombo (Ceylon), Kilindini (Kenya), then returned to Colombo. Our guest is Andrew Boyd, OBE, DPhil, FRHistS who was educated at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and St John's College, Oxford. He served as a submariner in the Royal Navy in the 1970s and subsequently in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He received his DPhil in naval history from the University of Buckingham in 2015 where he remains a senior research fellow. He was appointed a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2021. He is the author of the critically acclaimed books The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters (Seaforth, 2017) and British Naval Intelligence through the Twentieth Century (Seaforth 2020).

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