Hut 33

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Hut 33 is a BBC Radio 4 sitcom set at Bletchley Park in 1941. It includes both the writer (James Cary) and producer (Adam Bromley) from Think the Unthinkable and Concrete Cow. rdf:langString

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rdf:langString Charles has German relatives and is threatened with internment. Gordon gets mail from a secret admirer. Josh gets confused about how many Charleses he knows.

rdf:langString Food shortages are chronic, with the U-boats sinking vital supplies in the Atlantic. Things get so bad, Charles joins Archie's Marxist society.

rdf:langString The United Kingdom is surrounded by enemies, so when there's news of a security breach at Bletchley Park, everyone in Hut 33 is under suspicion. Then Nancy arrives, the beautiful stranger who seems to want to know all about them.

rdf:langString Hut 33 try to improve their status within the Park by taking matters into their own hands. When they intercepts a message that a German spy is to be parachuted nearby, they decide to be there ready for him. But when he arrives, Charles is in for a pleasant surprise. And then several unpleasant ones.

rdf:langString The codebreakers of Bletchley Park are in the doghouse again, so to make amends they help raise money for the town's Supermarine Spitfire fund. Unfortunately Charles promptly loses the money in a card game, trying to impress an old school chum, so the hut must try to win it back somehow. Archie can't believe Charles is so desperate to curry favour with a former prefect and Minka has trouble understanding the rules of gentlemen's clubs.

rdf:langString Chalk from lower Newcastle meets Cheese from the upper classes. Charles gets fringe benefits from Mrs. Best, but Archie knows how to pull a fast one. Meanwhile, Hut 33 are playing Hut 6 in the Bletchley Inter-hut bridge tournament. Gordon can't play because he has a date with Minka – so rather than play with Charles, Archie would rather try and teach Josh how to play. It doesn't go well.

rdf:langString Hut 33 are at the bottom of the interhut league tables. Deeply ashamed, but keen to make amends, they break into Hut 7b to steal crucial information on a message being decoded. But soon they end up in very hot water. Fortunately, Gordon becomes a man and takes charge.

rdf:langString The hut have to play a football match against the local prisoners-of-war. Charles refuses to get involved, deeming Association Football to be beneath him. Archie wants to prove his masculinity on the pitch, but Hut 33's team are a shambolic mess. That's until Minka gets involved. Meanwhile, some private wagers between Charles and Josh get out of hand.

rdf:langString It's 1942, the war is not going well and the codebreakers of Bletchley Park are under even more pressure than before. Hut 33, the worst performing hut, 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.

rdf:langString French resistance operative Marie-Anne is looking for brave, resourceful and courageous men to help her on an intelligence mission over France. Instead she meets the occupants of Hut 33. Archie, Gordon and Charles are all keen to impress their new lady friend, while Minka takes an irrational dislike to a fellow resistance fighter. Could things get any worse? With Josh in charge of supplies and his brother Neville flying the plane, the answer is yes.

rdf:langString Gordon invents a new form of computing device to help break codes. Mrs. Best uses her unique talents to get the materials, but then the machine puts the codebreakers out of work. They are re-assigned to a suicide mission. This episode is rich in sly references to information technology, including an "iTube" and a machine filling up with spam.

rdf:langString Gordon is convinced that Hut 33's recent run of luck is thanks to his lucky mascot, Mr Pickles. But Archie is determined to prove that it's all down to natural intelligence and decides to put an end to Gordon's childish superstitions. At which point their luck promptly runs out; none of the codes make even the slightest sense. They are forced to move into Hut 13 – although a mystery surrounds the whereabouts of the former inhabitants. Perhaps the rumours about the Devil's Equation are true after all.

rdf:langString The Duke of Kent is coming to inspect Bletchley Park, but the top brass are worried he is a Nazi sympathiser. Hut 33 has to delay him and make sure he doesn't see any of the code-breaking machines. Archie has to distract the Prince, but ends up making a bigger impact than he expected.

rdf:langString There's a problem in Hut 33, they have to get their yellow fever vaccinations, from an aggressive Australian army doctor. Soon enough, they are in quarantine and the SS29 German 'whiskey' at the 1942 New Year's Eve party turns out to be something else entirely. Guests – Ben Crowe and Brendon Burns

rdf:langString A posting to Iraq is up for grabs. Archie wants it but mainly to stop Charles from going. Charles is the obvious candidate being able to speak the local language and having been there before. Using bribery and blackmail, both seek to persuade Josh to nominate them, until Charles finds out the posting is not to Baghdad, but Iraq's version of Death Valley.

rdf:langString Rations are in short supply so Hut 33 resorts to the services of a spiv. But when they order bacon in bulk they end up with more than they bargaining for. They take delivery of actual pig – which turns out to have come from a very questionable source.

rdf:langString Archie is expecting a visit from his brother, but leave is restricted to one day per hut – and Charles has booked it. Archie seeks to persuade Charles to give him his day of leave. Meanwhile, Gordon undergoes a rapid Catholic conversion in an attempt to woo Minka.

rdf:langString A rich American arrives at Hut 33 – and Archie and Charles see their chance to make some serious money, showing and selling him the finest, and fakest, British artifacts. But the American's true identity proves to be very significant and severely problematic.

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xsd:date 2009-11-18

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rdf:langString Baghdad

rdf:langString Food

rdf:langString A Bridge Too Far

rdf:langString Big Machine

rdf:langString Entente Cordiale

rdf:langString Careless Talk

rdf:langString Yellow Fever

rdf:langString Back to Your Post

rdf:langString Don't Bet On It

rdf:langString Getting Heavy

rdf:langString Know Thyne Enemy

rdf:langString Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

rdf:langString Pigs N' Spivs

rdf:langString Royal Visit

rdf:langString Spitfire Poker

rdf:langString Unlucky for Some

rdf:langString Where Boffins Dare

rdf:langString Yankee Diddle

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rdf:langString Hut 33 is a BBC Radio 4 sitcom set at Bletchley Park in 1941. It includes both the writer (James Cary) and producer (Adam Bromley) from Think the Unthinkable and Concrete Cow.

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