Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is one of the greatest books written in English.Children love the story of Gulliver the giant, who is shipwrecked in Lilliput. Adults who delve deeper into the novel admire the sometimes savage satire that Swift displays.
But Gulliver Travels also holds one of literature's most enduring mysteries, for the names of the characters in the story are encrypted anagrams of real people.
Not only that, but the code used by Swift was a real cryptographic technique used by Swift's friends to send secret messages.
Now the codes is being cracked, and the mysteries in Gulliver's Travels are starting to unravel. Join us as we investigate the secrets behind a computer that Swift calls the literary engine - the Word Machine of Lagado.
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Alastair Sweeny