From Bletchley to Bond: An Interview with Journalist and Author Sinclair McKay (Part 1)

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🗓️ 12 November 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with British author and journalist Sinclair McKay for a two-part SpyCast. In Part 1, Vince and Sinclair discuss the role played by the codebreakers at Bletchley Park in the Allied victory in the Second World War. The author of three books and numerous articles on the topic, McKay provides compelling historical insight into a subject that you only think you really know.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the CyberWire Museum in Washington, D.C.
0:21.0	I'm Dr. Vince Hote, the Museum's historian and curator. Every month,
0:26.2	the Museum brings you interesting talks with authors, scholars, and practitioners who live in the world of
0:31.6	global espionage.
0:33.0	Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence.
0:37.0	So our guest today is journalists and author Sinclair McKay.
0:46.0	He's author of several books on British code-breaking including the Secret Lives of
0:50.5	Code Breakers, the Lost World of Bletchley Park, and the secret
0:54.1	specifically about the WISE Service, which was the people
0:59.1	actually listening and intercepting the communications.
1:01.2	He is also the author of a book on the James Bond franchise,
1:04.7	The Man with the Golden Touch.
1:06.5	And his latest book is Dunkirk, from Disaster to Deliverance,
1:10.1	which was just released, believe a couple weeks ago.
1:12.8	Yes.
1:13.8	So Sinclair, thank you for coming to the National Spy Museum.
1:16.0	Well, thank you very much for inviting me.
1:17.8	So I really wanted to start with talking about your books the cryptanalysis.
1:23.0	What got you interested in this field?
1:26.0	What got me interested was I had read quite a bit
1:31.0	about how the codes were broken, Bletchley Park and about the extraordinary work that they did at Bletchley Park,
1:36.5	which some people reckoned to have shortened the war by two years.
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