Hut 33
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 2007 - 2009
- 18 episodes (3 series)
Radio sitcom set in Bletchley Park in 1941, about code-breakers who are forced to share a draughty wooden hut. Stars Robert Bathurst, Tom Goodman-Hill, Fergus Craig, Alex Macqueen, Olivia Colman and Lill Roughley
Episode menu
Series 3, Episode 1 - Know Thyne Enemy
Further details
It's 1942. Hut 33, the worst performing of the Bletchley Park teams, resorts to desperate measures to improve results. Archie, Gordon and Charles try to think like Germans to help them predict the letter combinations on the Enigma machine. Unfortunately their experiment in psychological warfare goes very badly awry.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 14th October 2009
- Time
- 11:30am
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Robert Bathurst | Charles |
| Tom Goodman-Hill | Archie |
| Fergus Craig | Gordon |
| Alex Macqueen | Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall |
| Olivia Colman | Minka |
| Lill Roughley | Mrs Best |
| James Cary | Writer |
| Adam Bromley | Producer |
Press
The start of the new series of this sitcom is neatly timed, considering the recent announcement of lottery funding for the restoration of part of Bletchley Park, the epicentre of Allied decoding efforts during the Second World War. In the series, which is set at the complex during the war, the feuding among the code breakers is rampant. Archie (Tom Goodman-Hill), a revolutionary socialist, clashes with Charles (Robert Bathurst) over a long-held grudge, while the young maths prodigy Gordon (Fergus Craig) attempts to keep the peace.
Jod Mitchell, The Telegraph, 14th October 2009