E29 - Ghosts of Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

December 2014

This month we again have more exclusive content for you from The Imitation Game.

Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Alan Turing in the film, tells us about how nerve wracking, special and even ghostly it was filming scenes at Bletchley Park.

We also take you to the opening of The Imitation Game, The Exhibition, which was held at the Home of The Codebreakers with a special screening of the film. BBC 3 Counties Jane Killick and our own roving podcast reporter Astrid Specht speak to some of the guests at the black-tie event, including David Broder, location manager on The Imitation Game and a long time champion of Bletchley Park.

The Turing Test is an underlying theme of the film and it’s still confounding computer scientists to this day. For more than two decades Dr Hugh Loebner has turned that into a competition which for the second time was hosted at Bletchley Park. We find out why it is still important today from the organisers and one of the judges, BBC TV’s James May.

Finally this month we hear from Veteran Kathleen Wing, an Intercept Operator from 1944 to 45, who caught up with researcher, author and roving podcast reporter Kerry Howard, at the 2014 Veterans’ Reunion.

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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.
0:41.9	Welcome to the December 2014 edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:47.8	This has been a landmark year for Bletchley Park with the completion of Phase 1 of the Restoration,
0:51.4	crowned by a visit from Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.
0:55.0	More recently, the release of the hit film about Alan Turing,
1:00.5	The Imitation Game, has brought this amazing story to the attention of whole new swathes of people.
1:05.2	In this episode, we hear from Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Alan Turing in the film,
1:10.4	about how nerve-wracking, special and even ghostly it was, filming scenes at Bletchley Park. We also take you to the filming scenes at Bletchley Park.
1:15.7	We also take you to the special screening at Bletchley Park, which launched the imitation game,
1:16.6	The Exhibition.
1:23.0	We give you a peek into 2015 with a look at upcoming events, and we hear from veteran Kathleen Wing,
1:26.5	an intercept operator from 1944 to 45.
1:31.4	But first, the Turing Test is an underlying theme of the film The Imitation Game,
1:35.1	and it's still confounding computer scientists to this day.
1:38.2	Dr. Hugh Lobner has turned that into a competition,
1:40.8	which he's been running for more than two decades,
1:43.5	putting software under very human scrutiny. For the second time, it was hosted
1:45.8	here at Bletchley Park. Could machines ever think as human beings do? Most people say
1:53.5	not. You're not most people. Well, the problem is you're asking a stupid question.
2:01.6	I am.
2:03.6	Of course, machines can't think as people do.
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