FACTUAL
6 April 2008
Sunday 6 April 2008 11:15-12:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Repeated: Friday 11 April 2008 9:00-9:45 (Radio 4 FM)
Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group of people intimately involved in a moment of modern history.
She gathers together five Bletchley Park code-breakers recruited during World War II to decrypt German messages created by the complex Enigma machine. Their success, on an unprecedented scale and against enormous odds, is said to have shortened the war by two years, but ther nature of their work remained a secret for more than three decades.
