Episodes
Series | Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
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01 | 01 | Bridge Too Far | 20070625 | 20110801 (BBC7) 20130319 (BBC7) 20150219 (BBC7) 20160914 (BBC7) 20180823 (BBC7) 20200309 (BBC7) 20211127 (BBC7) 20211204 (BBC7) 20211205 (BBC7) 20231230 (BBC7) 20080805 (R4) | Three wartime code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as they try to break German ciphers. Charles - Robert Bathurst Archie - Tom Goodman-Hill Minka - Olivia Colman Gordon - Fergus Craig Mrs Best - Lill Roughley Joshua - Alex MacQueen Producer: Adam Bromley. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2007. Three wartime code-breakers tackle Nazi ciphers, but hate each other. From June 2007. Three wartime code-breakers tackle Nazi ciphers, but hate each other. Bletchley Park romp with Robert Bathurst. From June 2007. |
01 | 02 | Baghdad | 20070702 | 20110808 (BBC7) 20130326 (BBC7) 20150226 (BBC7) 20160921 (BBC7) 20180830 (BBC7) 20200316 (BBC7) 20211204 (BBC7) 20240106 (BBC7) | Charles and Archie jump at the chance of going to Iraq, but the posting turns out not to be as cushy as it first seemed. Three code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut, as they try to break German ciphers. Charles - Robert Bathurst Archie - Tom Goodman-Hill Minka - Olivia Colman Gordon - Fergus Craig Mrs Best - Lill Roughley Joshua - Alex MacQueen Producer: Adam Bromley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007. Two of the wartime code-breakers jump at the chance to escape Bletchley Park for Iraq. Two of the wartime code-breakers jump at the chance to escape Bletchley Park for Iraq. Stars Robert Bathurst. From June 2007. |
01 | 03 | Careless Talk | 20070709 | 20110815 (BBC7) 20130402 (BBC7) 20150305 (BBC7) 20160928 (BBC7) 20180906 (BBC7) 20200323 (BBC7) 20211211 (BBC7) 20240113 (BBC7) | A security breach at Bletchley Park puts the wartime code-breakers under suspicion. Charles - Robert Bathurst Archie - Tom Goodman-Hill Minka - Olivia Colman Gordon - Fergus Craig Joshua - Alex MacQueen With Miranda Raison. Producer: Adam Bromley. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007. A security breach at Bletchley Park puts the wartime code-breakers under suspicion. Stars Robert Bathurst. From July 2007. |
01 | 04 | Don't Bet On It | 20070716 | 20110822 (BBC7) 20130409 (BBC7) 20150312 (BBC7) 20161005 (BBC7) 20180913 (BBC7) 20200330 (BBC7) 20211218 (BBC7) 20240120 (BBC7) | The Bletchley Park codebreakers must play football against Italian prisoners of war. Charles - Robert Bathurst Archie - Tom Goodman-Hill Minka - Olivia Colman Gordon - Fergus Craig Mrs Best - Lill Roughley Joshua - Alex MacQueen Producer: Adam Bromley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007. The Bletchley Park codebreakers must play football against Italian prisoners of war. Stars Robert Bathurst. From July 2007. |
01 | 05 | Food | 20070723 | 20110829 (BBC7) 20130416 (BBC7) 20150319 (BBC7) 20161012 (BBC7) 20180920 (BBC7) 20200406 (BBC7) 20211225 (BBC7) 20240127 (BBC7) | The code-breakers think of some new ways to improve wartime rations. Charles - Robert Bathurst Archie - Tom Goodman-Hill Minka - Olivia Colman Gordon - Fergus Craig Joshua - Alex MacQueen With Lill Roughley and Lewis MacLeod Producer: Adam Bromley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007. The Bletchley Park code-breakers think of some new ways to improve wartime rations. The Bletchley Park code-breakers think of some new ways to improve wartime rations. Stars Robert Bathurst. From July 2007. |
01 | 06 LAST | Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? | 20070730 | 20110905 (BBC7) 20130423 (BBC7) 20150326 (BBC7) 20161019 (BBC7) 20180927 (BBC7) 20200413 (BBC7) 20220101 (BBC7) 20240203 (BBC7) | The Bletchley Park codebreakers grapple with the complexities of religion. The Bletchley Park codebreakers grapple with the complexities of religion. From July 2007. Charles - Robert Bathurst Archie - Tom Goodman-Hill Minka - Olivia Colman Gordon - Fergus Craig Mrs Best - Lill Roughley Joshua - Alex MacQueen. Producer: Adam Bromley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007. The Bletchley Park codebreakers grapple with the complexities of religion. Stars Robert Bathurst. From July 2007. |
02 | 01 | Royal Visit | 20080521 | 20120329 (BBC7) 20130901 (BBC7) 20150402 (BBC7) 20161130 (BBC7) 20181115 (BBC7) 20200615 (BBC7) 20220219 (BBC7) 20220226 (BBC7) 20220227 (BBC7) 20240330 (BBC7) | It's panic stations at Hut 33! A member of the royal family is paying a visit but the top brass suspect he might be a Nazi sympathiser. The team has to delay him and make sure he doesn't see any of the codebreaking machines. James Cary's sitcom set at Bletchley Park - the top-secret home of the Second World War codebreakers, Archie Charles - Robert Bathurst Gordon - Fergus Craig Joshua - Alex McQueen Minka - Olivia Colman Duke of Kent - Michael Fenton Stevens First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2008. The Bletchley Park codebreakers hit panic stations when a royal visitor arrives. Archie - Tom Goodman-Hill Mrs Best - Lill Roughley Producer: Adam Bromley The Bletchley Park codebreakers hit panic stations when a royal visitor arrives. Stars Robert Bathurst. From May 2008. |
02 | 02 | Pigs N Spivs | 20080528 | 20120405 (BBC7) 20130908 (BBC7) 20150409 (BBC7) 20161207 (BBC7) 20181122 (BBC7) 20200622 (BBC7) 20220226 (BBC7) 20240406 (BBC7) | It's 1941 and supplies are running short in Bletchley Park, centre of the Allies' codebreaking effort. Archie reluctantly uses the services of Mrs Best's shady contact to get some extra food and Gordon is seduced by the promise of a Superman comic. Charles - Robert Bathurst Archie - Tom Goodman-Hill Minka - Olivia Colman Mrs Best - Lill Roughley Gordon - Fergus Craig Joshua - Alex McQueen Spiv - Stephen Critchlow Producer: Adam Bromley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2008. The codebreakers run out of rations. Can special new recruit Willis save their bacon? The codebreakers run out of rations. Can special new recruit Willis save their bacon? Stars Robert Bathurst. From May 2008. |
02 | 03 | Yellow | 20080604 | 20120412 (BBC7) 20130915 (BBC7) 20150416 (BBC7) 20161214 (BBC7) 20181129 (BBC7) 20200629 (BBC7) 20220305 (BBC7) 20240413 (BBC7) | The code breaking staff are ordered to be vaccinated against yellow fever, but Charles refuses to be injected by an Australian. Archie is scared of needles and Gordon needs a note from his mum. Charles - Robert Bathurst Archie - Tom Goodman-Hill Minka - Olivia Colman Mrs Best - Lill Roughley Gordon - Fergus Craig Joshua - Alex McQueen With Ben Crowe and Brendon Burns. Producer: Adam Bromley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008. The codebreakers must get jabs, but they all rustle up excuses to avoid the needle. The code breakers must get jabs - but they all rustle up excuses to avoid the needle. Stars Robert Bathurst. From June 2008. The code-breaking staff are ordered to be vaccinated against yellow fever, but Charles refuses to be injected by an Australian. |
02 | 04 | Where Boffins Dare | 20101128 | 20120419 (BBC7) 20130922 (BBC7) 20150423 (BBC7) 20161221 (BBC7) 20181206 (BBC7) 20200706 (BBC7) 20220312 (BBC7) 20240420 (BBC7) | The codebreakers are threatened with being sent to Burma after making yet another mistake with a message. In an attempt to redeem themselves before their superiors, they set out to capture a German spy. Charles - Robert Bathurst Archie - Tom Goodman-Hill Minka - Olivia Colman Mrs Best - Lill Roughley Gordon - Fergus Craig Joshua - Alex McQueen With Ben Willbond. Producer: Adam Bromley First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008. To avoid a war posting to Burma, the blundering codebreakers must catch a German spy. To avoid a war posting to Burma, the blundering codebreakers must catch a German spy. Stars Robert Bathurst. From June 2008. |
02 | 05 | Getting Heavy | 20080618 | 20120426 (BBC7) 20130929 (BBC7) 20150430 (BBC7) 20161228 (BBC7) 20181213 (BBC7) 20200713 (BBC7) 20220319 (BBC7) | ~Hut 33 has come bottom in the ranking at Bletchley Park, and the code breakers must do something to prove themselves. Charles Charles - Robert Bathurst Minka - Olivia Colman Gordon - Fergus Craig Joshua - Alex McQueen With Lisa Sutherland, Arnab Chanda and Ben Crowe. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008. Bottom of Bletchley Park's league, the codebreakers set out to prove themselves. |
02 | 06 LAST | Yankee Diddle | 20080625 | 20120503 (BBC7) 20131006 (BBC7) 20150514 (BBC7) 20170104 (BBC7) 20181220 (BBC7) 20200720 (BBC7) 20220326 (BBC7) | The Bletchley Park cipher-busting team decide that a wealthy American visitor is a ripe target for fleecing... Fergus Craig (Gordon) 3rd Lieutenant Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall - Alex MacQueen Freddie G. Roosevelt - Arnab Chanda First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008. The Bletchley Park codebreakers' attempt to fleece a wealthy American backfires. |
03 | 01 | Know Thyne Enemy | 20091014 | 20120529 (BBC7) 20140402 (BBC7) 20150819 (BBC7) 20170223 (BBC7) 20190307 (BBC7) 20200914 (BBC7) 20220604 (BBC7) 20220611 (BBC7) 20220612 (BBC7) | It's 1942 and the war is not going well - so the codebreakers of Bletchley Park are under even more pressure than usual. Archie, Gordon and Charles try to think like Germans to predict the Enigma machine code... Bletchley Park codebreaker Gordon gets carried away trying to think like a German. |
03 | 02 | Big Machine | 20091021 | 20120605 (BBC7) 20140409 (BBC7) 20150826 (BBC7) 20170302 (BBC7) 20190314 (BBC7) 20200921 (BBC7) 20220611 (BBC7) | 1942: can Gordon's new computing invention help the Bletchley Park code-breakers? Can Gordon's new computing invention help the Bletchley Park codebreakers? |
03 | 03 | Back To Your Post | 20091028 | 20120612 (BBC7) 20140416 (BBC7) 20150902 (BBC7) 20170309 (BBC7) 20190321 (BBC7) 20200928 (BBC7) 20220618 (BBC7) | Everything German's under suspicion in 1942, especially in Bletchley Park. When it's discovered Charles has German relatives, he's threatened with internment. Will Archie help him, and can he avoid Minka's attention now she knows a true German is among them? With everything German under suspicion, the codebreakers tackle censoring letters. |
03 | 04 | Spitfire Poker | 20091104 | 20120619 (BBC7) 20140423 (BBC7) 20150909 (BBC7) 20170316 (BBC7) 20190328 (BBC7) 20201005 (BBC7) 20220625 (BBC7) | The Bletchley Park code breakers try help raise money for the town's spitfire fund. The Bletchley Park codebreakers try to help raise money for the town's spitfire fund. |
03 | 05 | Unlucky For Some | 20091111 | 20120626 (BBC7) 20140430 (BBC7) 20150916 (BBC7) 20170323 (BBC7) 20190404 (BBC7) 20201012 (BBC7) 20220702 (BBC7) | 1942: It's unlucky for some of the code breakers at Bletchley when they're forced to move into spooky Hut 13. Can the Bletchley codebreakers remain rational as they move into spooky Hut 13? |
03 | 06 LAST | Entente Cordiale | 20091118 | 20120703 (BBC7) 20140507 (BBC7) 20150923 (BBC7) 20170330 (BBC7) 20190411 (BBC7) 20201019 (BBC7) 20220709 (BBC7) | 1942: can the wartime code breakers improve Anglo-French relations with a little derring-do? Can the wartime codebreakers improve Anglo-French relations with a little derring-do? |