April 2018 Acorn TV Calendar

Monday, April 30th

STATION X

1999 UK Channel 4 WWII documentary series detailing the story of how the Germany's Enigma code was broken. The Enigma coding machine should have been Germany's greatest weapon during World War II. It could reconfigure each message in 150 million ways and, unsurprisingly, was thought to be unbreakable. This two-part doc tells the remarkable story of Station X, Britain's code-breaking headquarters based at the country estate of Bletchley Park. Ten thousand code-breakers were recruited, an eccentric mob of schoolboys and academics, crossword fanatics and chess players. Against the odds, Enigma was broken, rendering it Germany's greatest liability. The series mixes recollections from code-breakers with meticulous reconstructions filmed in Bletchley itself. (2 EPS)