Bletchley Park in the News

A codebreaker whose work deciphering secret German messages is said to have reduced World War II, is to be honoured in his Suffolk hometown.

Seven decades of electronica at code-breaking park museum Are programmers the new rock stars? That may be a bit of a stretch, but it hasn't stopped one IT engineer staging a computer music exhibition at Blighty's Bletchley Park.…

Lord Sharkey files private member's bill        

Miniature homage to codebreaking giant It's a tip of the hat today to Lego fan James Pegrum, who's created a splendid miniature representation of Bletchley Park's famous Colossus Mark 2 :…

ITV mystery drama is recommissioned and will return with four new episodes.

Each week Times TV Critic Mary McNamara offers her viewing picks for the coming week:        

Electronica album sales pumped into programming lessons Audio Synthesizer-loving programmers have released their very own electronica album to raise cash for kids' classes at Bletchley Park.…

Another show to watch on Sunday nights        

British coders release electronica album to raise money for a computer club

Last year marked the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, the daddy of computer scientists. Turing was working at Bletchley Park, helping to decode Germany’s Enigma ciphers, years before Bill Gates or Steve Jobs were conceived. He should have been rich and famous.