Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

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Post by jgrahamc » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 9:10 AM UTC

Re: Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes

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Post by jgrahamc » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 9:11 AM UTC

Excellent BBC documentary about "the other" cipher at Bletchley Park: Lorenz (my personal favourite and precursor of modern cryptography).

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Post by jgrahamc » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 9:33 AM UTC

And if you like that sort of thing you might like this old blog post of mine about application of Bayes Theorem to code breaking: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/07/bayes-bletchley-jn-25-and-modern...

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Post by dfc » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 9:56 AM UTC

Is this a new documentary? I swear I've seen a documentary with the exact same title.

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Post by jgrahamc » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 10:00 AM UTC

dfc wrote: post #4

Is this a new documentary? I swear I've seen a documentary with the exact same title.

It's new.

#6

Post by haasted » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 10:02 AM UTC

Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only

Can anyone point to an alternative source?

#7

Post by stewsnooze » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 10:10 AM UTC

I watched this last night. It was brilliant.

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Post by gazzer » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 10:12 AM UTC

haasted wrote: post #6

Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only Can anyone point to an alternative source?

Just use one of the many vpn services - I like ukivpn.com but there's plenty more.

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Post by RyanMcGreal » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 10:43 AM UTC

"Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only, but all BBC iPlayer Radio programmes are available to you." Bleagh.

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Post by J_Darnley » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 11:00 AM UTC

haasted wrote: post #6

Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only Can anyone point to an alternative source?