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Bletchley Park: Code-breaking's Forgotten Genius
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Title: Bletchley Park: Code-breaking's Forgotten Genius

Release Date: 7 Sep 2015

Runtime: 46m

Genre: Documentary

Director: BBC

Production Companies: BBC

Overview: Gordon Welchman was one of the original elite codebreakers crucial to the allies defeating the Nazis in World War II. He is the forgotten genius of Bletchley Park.

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Average Vote: 6.8 (6 votes)

Cast

  • Himself - Narrator: Steven Mackintosh
  • Gordon Welchman (voice): Brian Deacon
  • Herself - Gordon Welchman's Daughter: Rosamund Welchman
  • Himself - Ex-Head of Hut 6, Bletchley Park (1939-1941) (archive footage): W. Gordon Welchman
  • Himself - Author, 'The Secret Life of Bletchley Park': Sinclair McKay
  • Himself - Veteran, Hut 6: Jimmy Thirsk
  • Himself - Veteran, Hut 6: Asa Briggs
  • Herself - Veteran, Hut 6: Jane Fawcett
  • Himself - GCHQ Historian and Former Analyst: Tony Comer
  • Himself - Vice President, Wolfson College, Cambridge (as Prof John Naughton): John Naughton
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