E27 - From The Red Carpet

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

October 2014

This month we come to you from the red carpet at The Odeon Leicester Square for the premiere of THE IMITATION GAME. The movie based on the life and work of Codebreaker Alan Turing was picked to open the prestigious 2014 BFI London Film Festival.

To celebrate the film’s release in UK cinemas on the 14th of November, Bletchley Park will open a major new exhibition, taking visitors behind the scenes of this highly anticipated movie. We’ll bring you more on that next month, now, though, we can bring you exclusive behind the scenes interviews recorded during filming in the Mansion at Bletchley Park in late 2013.

We first spoke to two members of the Turing family. Dermot Turing is a Bletchley Park Trustee as well as being Alan Turing’s nephew. His son, James, signed up as a supporting actor - once known as extras, for the film .We chatted to them both about what it was like to be involved in a film about the famous relative they’re both too young to have ever met.

Then, screen writer Graham Moore and executive producer Teddy Schwarzmann somehow managed to find time in the busy schedule of filming to sit down with us to talk about how they first discovered Alan’s story and wanted to bring it to the world.

Finally this month, as always, we bring you an interview with a real Bletchley Park Veteran. Dot Tuffin was a Bombe Wren based first at Eastcote and later posted to Colombo. When she visited the newly restored buildings at the Veterans’ preview in May, the memories came flooding back.

For more information about The Turing Trust www.turingtrust.co.uk

#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #AlanTuring, #theimitationgame

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The From the home of the co-breakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:41.6	Welcome to the October 2014 edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:49.9	We join you from a slightly soggy red carpet at the Odeon-Lester Square for the UK premiere of the film about Alan Turing the imitation game.
0:57.4	The film was chosen to open the BFI London Film Festival and is already the subject of much speculation about Oscar nominations.
1:05.5	The crowds have braved the weather to see the stars arrive and I'm huddled under an umbrella with my boss, Bletchley Park's Director of Communications, Kelsey Griffin.
1:08.0	So how exciting is it to be here, Kelsey?
1:16.6	Oh, I can tell you, Catherine, this is amazingly exciting. We've been tracing the development and the buildup of this film for the last three years when we first heard about it. Combinating last year in some filming that was done on the location of Leicester Park, which was very excited to have
1:22.6	Kiranke and Benedict Cumberbatch on site for the filming.
1:25.6	And so to have it here today opening the
1:28.6	London Film Festival is incredible for us we're hoping that it's going to be extremely popular
1:33.7	film and that many many thousands of people are going to see it and then be inspired to come and
1:39.4	visit Bletchley Park before we go in and watch this hotly anticipated film, let's cast our minds back about a year
1:45.0	to when part of the film was shot at Bletchley Park.
1:48.0	We spoke then to the screenwriter Graham Moore, the executive producer, Teddy Schwartzman,
1:52.0	and Dermott Turing, along with his son James, who, if you know where to look, is actually in the film.
1:58.0	What did you do during the war?
2:00.0	I worked in a radio factory. What did you really do during the war? I worked in a radio factory.
2:01.6	What did you really do during the war?
2:04.6	Are you paying attention?
2:07.6	If you speak a word of what I'm about to show you, you will be executed.
2:14.6	It's beautiful. It's the greatest encryption device in history.
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