Listen "02 - How BOATS is THE IMITATION GAME (2014)? With Tim Bergsma"
Episode Synopsis
How Based On A True Story is The Imitation Game?Rob and his little brother Tim break the code or some other such pun on The Imitation Game! How true to life is the story of Alan Turing and his time at Bletchley Park breaking the Nazi enigma code and saving the world?Where to watch The Imitation Game: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-imitation-gameAlan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film the Imitation Game - Updated Edition (Revised) by Andrew Hodges: https://bookshop.org/a/4479/9780691164724The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptographyby Simon Singh: https://bookshop.org/a/4479/9780385495325Further Reading / Watching:Two part video explaining how Enigma worked:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_Q9FoD-oQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4V2bpZlqx8More about Enigma and Turing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2NWPG2gB_Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj_7Jc1mS9kInfo about Welchman and traffic analysis:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZNayEPFKcA lot of similar info from the videos above but at 3:20 there's a good shot of the Enigma rotors taken out of the machine:https://youtu.be/ASfAPOiq_eQ?t=201 Good recap of how BOATS:https://slate.com/culture/2014/12/the-imitation-game-fact-vs-fiction-how-true-the-new-movie-is-to-alan-turings-real-life-story.html5 min video explaining the basics of Turing Machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNRDvLACg5QVideos on Colossus, the computer Tommy Flowers designed that broke the harder Lorenz cipher:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HH-asvLAj4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cDeG3hyraAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knXWMjIA59c