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Station X, was a 1999 UK Channel 4 documentary series detailing the story of how the Germany's Enigma code was broken.〔Brown, Maggie, The Guardian, 15 March 1999〕 John Smithson was executive producer. It was accompanied by the "Channel 4 Books" publication ''Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park'' (1998), authoried by Michael Smith which became a UK Number 1 bestseller. The first episode aired on Channel 4 on 19 January 1999 〔Sheffield, Emily. ''My grandmother, my hero'', Evening Standard, 15 January 1999〕 Tim Gardam, Channel 4's new director of programmes insisted that Station X, was broadcast at the peak viewing time.〔 The programme maker Peter Bate used full-scale reconstructions. Instead of a chronological narrative; Bate relied on short dramatised shots and anecdotes by various Bletchley veterans.〔Hanks, Robert. ''Television Review'' The Independent 20 January 1999〕〔Burge, Jim. Essay: ''On the reconstruction... '', The Independent, 14 February 1999〕 Those featured included Peter Calvocoressi, Ralph Bennett, Mavis Batey, John Herivel, Lord Briggs, Donald Michie, Shaun Wylie, Leslie Yoxall and Alan Rogers. The story covered the contributions of various real life characters including Hans-Thilo Schmidt, Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski, Jerzy Różycki, Geoffrey Tandy, Dilly Knox, Josh Cooper and Andrew Cunningham. The series was split into four episodes ''1.The keys to the Reich'',〔Hewson, David. ''A cracking good story'' Sunday Times 17 January 1999〕 ''2. Тhe goose, that laid the golden eggs'', ''3. The Ultra Secret'' and ''4. The war of the machines''. The stories covered various aspects of the breaking of the Enigma naval codes, the captures from the U-boat U-110 and other relevant material from German weather ship Lauenburg and München and the German armed trawler Krebs during the Lofoten raid. ==The keys to the Reich== The first episode revealed that Station X was the cover name for the World War II radio interception station co-located with the Government Code & Cypher School at Bletchley Park.〔Marchant, Herbert ''Secrets of Station X'' The Observer, 15 October 1978〕 In 1938 the British Secret Service bought Bletchley Park, installing wireless receiver (call-sign: "Station X") to pick up German messages. A small group of aristocratic codebreakers visited the Country house with their staff and butlers under the guise of "Captain Ridley's shooting party" to establish its suitability. With war Military Intelligence began to recruit various skillsets. Geoffrey Tandy, a marine biologist expert in Cryptogams, was selected when someone confused these with cryptograms.〔〔Smithies, Sandy. ''Television Tuesday Watching brief'', The Guardian 19 January 1999〕〔Davies, Mike. ''Cracking the code at last of Station X'' Birmingham Post 20 January 1999〕 The youthfulness of many staff was noted by biographer Andrew Hodges, who noted that young people had ''the keys to the Reich''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Station X (TV documentary)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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