Kikokushijo Academy Wordcast

In the 2014 award-winning movie The Imitation Game, British actor Benedict Cumberbatch portrayed Alan Turing, the inventor of a code-breaking machine that was used during World War II at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, England, to help the British and their Allies defeat the Germans.  And Bletchley Circle was a recent BBC mini-series about a group of highly intelligent women in the mid-1950s who help solve crimes by applying the code-breaking skills they gained while doing “spy” work at Bletchley Park.  So “Bletchley” is a hot topic right now, and in today’s passage, entitled “Breaking the Enigma,” you will learn all about Alan Turing’s machine, the German code it deciphered, and the dedicated men and women “code-breakers” who helped bring the war to a swifter end.  Listen carefully to the passage and then answer the questions that follow.    The correct answers will follow immediately after the closing jingle, so make sure you stay tuned in.  Answers are also available on the KA Wordcast website