Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share E103 - Enigma Unlocked
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
E103 - Enigma Unlocked
January 2020
80 years ago, in January 1940, British and French troops were freezing in their dugouts awaiting a German attack which would not come for several months yet; the so-called ‘Phony war’.
Bletchley Park, by contrast was a hive of activity as efforts were made to break into German codes and ciphers, including the Enigma system, before the land war began in earnest.
In this ‘It Happened Here’ episode we are guided by Bletchley Park’s Research Historian Dr David Kenyon through the evolution of this infamous cipher machine, and the international efforts which led to the unlocking of its secrets in January 1940.
As usual special thanks go to Mr Ben Thomson for voicing our archival documents.
Image courtesy of Vic Roberts.
#BPark, #WW2, #BletchleyParkEnigma80, #Enigma80
80 years ago, in January 1940, British and French troops were freezing in their dugouts awaiting a German attack which would not come for several months yet; the so-called ‘Phony war’.
Bletchley Park, by contrast was a hive of activity as efforts were made to break into German codes and ciphers, including the Enigma system, before the land war began in earnest.
In this ‘It Happened Here’ episode we are guided by Bletchley Park’s Research Historian Dr David Kenyon through the evolution of this infamous cipher machine, and the international efforts which led to the unlocking of its secrets in January 1940.
As usual special thanks go to Mr Ben Thomson for voicing our archival documents.
Image courtesy of Vic Roberts.
#BPark, #WW2, #BletchleyParkEnigma80, #Enigma80
View all episodes
By Bletchley Park
4.8
7070 ratings
January 2020
80 years ago, in January 1940, British and French troops were freezing in their dugouts awaiting a German attack which would not come for several months yet; the so-called ‘Phony war’.
Bletchley Park, by contrast was a hive of activity as efforts were made to break into German codes and ciphers, including the Enigma system, before the land war began in earnest.
In this ‘It Happened Here’ episode we are guided by Bletchley Park’s Research Historian Dr David Kenyon through the evolution of this infamous cipher machine, and the international efforts which led to the unlocking of its secrets in January 1940.
As usual special thanks go to Mr Ben Thomson for voicing our archival documents.
Image courtesy of Vic Roberts.
#BPark, #WW2, #BletchleyParkEnigma80, #Enigma80
80 years ago, in January 1940, British and French troops were freezing in their dugouts awaiting a German attack which would not come for several months yet; the so-called ‘Phony war’.
Bletchley Park, by contrast was a hive of activity as efforts were made to break into German codes and ciphers, including the Enigma system, before the land war began in earnest.
In this ‘It Happened Here’ episode we are guided by Bletchley Park’s Research Historian Dr David Kenyon through the evolution of this infamous cipher machine, and the international efforts which led to the unlocking of its secrets in January 1940.
As usual special thanks go to Mr Ben Thomson for voicing our archival documents.
Image courtesy of Vic Roberts.
#BPark, #WW2, #BletchleyParkEnigma80, #Enigma80
More shows like Bletchley Park
View all
In Our Time
5,542 Listeners
HistoryExtra podcast
3,239 Listeners
Witness History
958 Listeners
The WW2 Podcast
1,250 Listeners
Great Lives
492 Listeners
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
396 Listeners
Dan Snow's History Hit
4,820 Listeners
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
1,419 Listeners
The Old Front Line
185 Listeners
The Farmers Weekly Podcast
16 Listeners
The Rest Is History
15,661 Listeners
Short History Of...
2,868 Listeners
The Rest Is Politics
3,321 Listeners
Empire: World History
2,428 Listeners
The Rest Is Classified
1,095 Listeners