E28 - Benedict Cumberbatch on Bletchley Park

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🗓️ 1 November 2014

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

November 2014

With only a couple of weeks till the UK release of THE IMITATION GAME, we can now bring you more exclusive interviews with the cast and crew.

Our roving reporter Astrid Specht braved the rain with patient fans at The Odeon Leicester Square for the London Film Festival premiere last month.

Podcast host Katherine Lynch sits down with Director Morton Tyldum, screen writer Graham Moore and actors Allen Leech and Matthew Beard.

We also bring you what was a very special moment for all of us at Bletchley Park, when Katherine sat down to start her interview with the star of the film, Benedict Cumberbatch (hear all this interview next month).

Finally, when Bletchley Park Historian and Guide, Joel Greenberg recently gave a talk on his biography of Gordon Welchman, there was a very special guest in attendance. Lord Asa Briggs served at Bletchley Park from 1942 till 1945, working with Welchman in Hut 6 and then later in Block D. He spoke to the sold out audience about his time at the Government Code & Cypher School and then sat down with us for a reflective conversation.

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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.
0:41.7	Welcome to the November 2014 edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:45.6	With only a couple of weeks to go to the general release of the imitation game,
0:49.1	we can now bring you more exclusive interviews from the cast and crew.
1:06.5	Our roving reporter, Astrid Schbeck, kindly brave the rain to chat to some of the patient fans in Leicester Square at last month's London Film Festival premiere, while podcast host Catherine Lynch sat down with screenwriter Graham Moore, director Morton Tilden and the actors Matthew Beard and Alan Leach.
1:16.6	That's what you're doing here, the top secret program at Bletchley, you're trying to break the German Enigma machine. What makes you think that?
1:18.6	It's the greatest encryption device in history and the Germans use it for all major communications.
1:24.6	If the Allies broke Enigma, well, it turned into a very short war indeed.
1:31.3	Of course that's what you're working on. But you also haven't got any way with it.
1:36.3	If you had, you wouldn't be hiring cryptographers out of university. You need me a lot more than I need you.
1:42.3	I like solving problems, Commander.
1:45.0	And Enigma is the most difficult problem in the world.
1:49.0	No, Enigma isn't difficult. It's impossible.
1:52.0	The Americans, the Russians, the French, the Germans, everyone thinks Enigma is unbreakable.
1:58.0	Good. Let me try and we'll know for sure, weren't we? I love the whole story of Bletchley Park, the code-breaking in World War II, the fact that people were pulled in from every log of life, finding people who never would have made a contribution except through this amazing place.
2:46.2	And it's how we won World War II.
2:48.1	When did you first hear about Alan Turing?
2:50.3	I only heard about Alan Turing very recently.
2:52.6	I think when Gordon Brown finally pardoned him, his story is just so amazing and tragic.
2:59.6	And after the war, he was so badly treated with the criminal prosecution for his homosexuality,
3:05.6	a chemical castration, and ultimately his suicide.
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