Scene: Breaking the Code

📺BBC Schools TV

started14th Feb 1997

ended7th Mar 1997

1 school year

episodes3

duration30 mins

subject ⚖️Citizenship

age rangeAge 13-16

languageenIn English

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Breaking the Code is a unit of the BBC schools TV series Scene from the 1990s, covering citizenship for secondary school pupils.

Originally broadcast as a 90-minute film in the evening on 5th February 1997, edited into three-parts for the broadcast on Scene a few weeks later.

From the teacher's notes

"This is a play about two types of code - the Enigma code and the Social code - both of which Alan Turing breaks. Study of the play should focus on these two codes, and how they are represented in parallel. Between then, the two codes create a tragic inevitability - the more Turing is indispensable to the state, the more his personal relationships and behaviour become a potential threat." - Scene teacher's notes spring 1997 p.33.

Credits

Written by

Hugh Whitemore

Broadcasts

Spring 1997

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Breaking the Code on the Internet Movie Database
Breaking the Code on Wikipedia

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