Cracking the Code

Sky History 2

8:00 AM to 9:00 AM

Tuesday 15 October

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How codes and ciphers have been used for millennia to send secret messages, hide identities and operate outside the law. This episode reveals the story of one of history's greatest codebreakers - suburban mother Elizebeth Friedman. Armed with just a pencil and paper, she cracked the codes that brought down the Mob, saved countless lives in the Second World War and prevented a Nazi invasion of America