The Imitation Game Christopher soon dies from tuberculosis. When Britain declares war on Germany in 1939, Turing travels to Bletchley Park. Under the direction of Commander Alastair Denniston, he joins the cryptography team of Hugh Alexander, John Cairncross, Peter Hilton, Keith Furman and Charles Richards. The team are trying to decrypt the Enigma machine, which the Nazis use to send coded messages. Turing is difficult to work with, and considers his colleagues inferior; he works alone to design a machine to decipher Enigma. After Denniston refuses to fund construction of the machine, Turing writes to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who puts Turing in
Cracking The Code Guitarist Mick Taylor and jazz trombonist Chris Barber also appear on the album and have been long-term collaborators with Petit since their involvement in his successful campaign to "Save The 100 Club" in December 2010. Their contributions were recorded at Petit’s home studio in late 2012. Mick Taylor spoke of "Cracking The Code" to "Guitar & Bass Magazine": "I went to see Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings and when I went to meet Bill backstage there were a few guitar fanatics there. A few of them said "we really enjoyed your playing on the Stephen Dale Petit album" it was nice