Bletchley Park in the News

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.

Both of those icons are alive and well in the four women who go after a necrophilic serial killer in 1952 London in “Bletchley Circle,” a three-part mystery miniseries coming to PBS Sunday night. Susan is brilliant at seeing patterns and solving puzzles; Millie speaks 14 languages; Lucy has a photographic memory; and Jean was able to use her leadership skills as the head of the decoding unit ...

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

World War II codebreakers, all of them women, get together to solve a serial murder in “The Bletchley Circle” on PBS.