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Horizon: The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, wartime master codebreaker and inventor of the computer. He was a visionary genius who saw no reason why true "thinking machines" could not be built in our lifetime. Turing was also a political and moral innocent. Openly homosexual, he was convicted of gross indecency in 1952. Two years later he killed himself by cyanide poisoning at the age of 41.
A Christopher Sykes production for BBCtv
(Stereo)
(Teletext subtitles: page 888)

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Producer:
Christopher Sykes
Series Editor:
Jana Bennett
Source: Radio Times

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