Michael Ventris Centenary: 1922 - 2022
His former teacher Patrick Hunter reads a poem in Greek which the young Michael Ventris wrote at school.
Michael's great achievement was his decipherment of Linear B, an ancient writing system found on clay tablets in Crete in 1900. Deciphering the script became Michael's overriding passion until he cracked it shortly before his thirtieth birthday in 1952, when he discovered it was an early form of Greek. His achievement is regularly compared to the decipherment of the Enigma code by Alan Turing.
Patrick Hunter, Michael's teacher, was interviewed by author Andrew Robinson in 1990 at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The footage was never used and at Andrew's suggestion I acquired it from Brook Lapping Productions and edited it into the film you see. I would like to thank Andrew and Brian Lapping for their help and for allowing me to use the material.
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