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 to be paid compliments for something other than what I did with the Rolling Stones but something just as important." The lyrics on the album were written by Petit except ""Shotgun Venus"", which saw another collaboration between Petit and performance poet Pete Brown, famed for his songwriting with British blues rock pioneers Cream in the 1960s (they previously co-wrote the title track on Petit's album "The Crave"). Commenting on the album's guest appearances, UK music journalist Henry Yates wrote that Petit keeps "hallowed company, but [he] is their equal." Cracking The Code was recorded, mixed, mastered and cut from analogue