CONTENTS 3 LETTER FROM THE CEO Iain Standen surveys a remarkable year for Bletchley Park as the major first phase of restoration is completed
40 INSIDE STORY Tour the impressive displays and richly atmospheric buildings at the restored Bletchley Park
4 NEWS All the latest announcements, events and exhibitions
46 VISITOR INFORMATION Tickets, opening times and members’ events
7 MYTHBUSTERS Michael Smith asks: Did gender equality really exist among the Codebreakers?
48 MY BLETCHLEY Television director Sarah Harding found work and family history meet on ITV’s The Bletchley Circle
8 ONE FROM THE ARCHIVE The documents that expose the great D-Day double cross 14 A PHOTOGRAPHIC MYSTERY On the enigmatic GCHQ photographs that show Bletchley Park in action
F E AT U R E S 18 THE MAN WHO BECAME ALAN TURING We speak to British star Benedict Cumberbatch about bringing the father of modern computing to life on the big screen 24 FRONT PAGE NEWS A visit from Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge made headlines in June, but Bletchley Park and its Veterans are big stories in their own right
32 LABOUR OF LOVE Behind the scenes with the writer, director and location manager of this year’s Codebreaking thriller, The Imitation Game, set at Bletchley Park
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