Michael Smith is the author of the bestseller 'Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park' (Channel Four, 1998) and a number of other books on the work of Britain's wartime codebreakers, including 'The Emperor's Codes: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers' and 'The Bletchley Park Codebreakers', which he co-edited with Ralph Erskine. He has worked as a journalist for the BBC, the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Times. He is a member of the board of the Bletchley Park Trust and the main adviser to the Trust on the work of the code-breakers.