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Station X (Radio Station)
Station X may refer to: *''Station X'', 1919 novel by George McLeod Winsor * Station X, code name for a codebreaking site at Bletchley Park Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following ... during World War II * ''Station X'' (UK TV series), a 1999 UK TV documentary about code-breaking at Bletchley Park * ''Station X'' (Canadian TV series), a 2005 animated series about six young people produced by Teletoon {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George McLeod Winsor
George McLeod Winsor (1856, Gateshead - 27 July 1939, Isleworth, Middlesex Isleworth ( ) is a town located within the London Borough of Hounslow in West London, England. It lies immediately east of the town of Hounslow and west of the River Thames and its tributary the River Crane. Isleworth's original area of settl ...) was a British writer of fantastic fiction and mysteries. Published under the name 'G. McLeod Winsor'. His novel ''Station X'' (1919) is a novel of the radio age and was noted by H.P. Lovecraft as a "semi-classic" in his 1934 essay “Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction”. The novel narrates a psychic invasion of the Earth from Mars, told much in the manner of Jules Verne. It was later reprinted as a serial in ''Amazing'' magazine in 1926, to reader acclaim. Noted author van Vogt singled it out as a key work in the famous ''Arkham Sampler'' survey of 1948, but others on the panel did not share his opinion. His ''The Mysterious Disappearances'' (1926), re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following 1883 for the financier and politician Sir Herbert Leon in the Victorian Gothic, Tudor, and Dutch Baroque styles, on the site of older buildings of the same name. During World War II, the estate housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powersmost importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. The GC&CS team of codebreakers included Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander, Bill Tutte, and Stuart Milner-Barry. The nature of the work at Bletchley remained secret until many years after the war. According to the official historian of British Intelligence, the "Ultra" intelligence produced at Bletchley shortened the war by two to four years, and withou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Station X (UK TV Series)
''Station X'' is a British television documentary series detailing the story of how Germany's Enigma code was broken. It was broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999.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), authored by Michael Smith which became a UK Number 1 bestseller. The first episode aired on Channel 4 on 19 January 1999. Tim Gardam, Channel 4's director of programmes, insisted that ''Station X'' be 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 1999Burge, Jim. Essay: ''On the reconstruction... '', The Independent, 14 February 1999 Those featured included Peter Calvocoressi, Ralph Bennett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
