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Synopsis: The highs and lows of Alan Turing's life, tracking his extraordinary accomplishments, his government persecution through to his tragic death in 1954. In the last 18 months of his short life, Turing visited a psychiatrist, Dr. Franz Greenbaum, who tried to help him. Each therapy session in this drama documentary is based on real events. The conversations between Turing and Greenbaum explore the pivotal moments in his controversial life and examine the pressures that may have contributed to his early death. The film also includes the testimony of people who actually knew and remember Turing. Plus, this film features interviews with contemporary experts from the world of technology and high science including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. These contributors bring Turing's exciting impact up to the present day, explaining why, in many ways, modern technology has only just begun to explore the potential of Turing's ideas.
Genre: Biography, Documentary, Drama
Director(s): Clare Beavan, Nic Stacey
Actors: Ed Stoppard, Henry Goodman, Paul McGann, Asa Briggs
Production: TODpix
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IMDB:
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2011
62 min
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are always going to be with us.

All our modern computing

grew from this one idea of Alan Turing's.

Incredible.

But that would be the future.

Back in 1939, Turing's brilliant visions

were interrupted by the shock of war.

In 1939, with the advent

of the Second World War

Turing was recruited to be part of a team

who were involved in the effort

to break German codes.

The centre of operations for this

code-breaking effort was Bletchley Park

which was a country estate,

equidistant from Cambridge and Oxford.

And also very easily accessible from London.

It was a completely secret effort.

There's never been a place

where secrets were better kept

than they were kept at Bletchley.

We were on our honour not

to talk about this and we didn't.

My parents never knew what I did

until the day they died.

It was an extremely eccentric

bunch of people who were recruited.

There were mathematicians.

There was a British chess champion.

There were people who had won contests

to do crossword puzzles in a very, very fast time.

Turing was, in some ways,

the main architect of the code-breaking effort.

You needed exceptional talent

you needed genius at Bletchley,

and Turing was the genius.

I regarded him with a certain amount of awe

because he was 'The Prof'.

He was just regarded as very clever.

The Germans were coding their messages

using what was called an Enigma machine.

What you have here is a

German Enigma machine

developed in

World War II

to encipher messages between

parts of the German forces.

The whole point about the Enigma machine

is it could be configured

in a large number of ways -

15 million, million ways.

The German operator set the machine up

keyed the message in which scrambled it

transmitted the scrambled text.

The other intended recipient had a machine

set to exactly the same settings

and that descrambled the message

and revealed the plain text.

The Germans believed that this machine

was completely unbreakable.

Turing sat down with an Enigma machine,

and he looked at it

and he thought I can break that.

I had a dream.

Oh, good.

I didn't write it down though.

You should write them down.

What did you dream about?

I dreamt about Joan Clarke.

We worked together. I can't say.

Of course.

But, we were...

It was...

There was a war on.

I 'loved' her.

Or rather - I didn't not love her.

Joan Clarke was a rarity at Bletchley.

She was a woman who did the same work

and had the same status as male codebreakers

but she was probably paid less.

She was a mathematician.

It was known that

she and Turing had been close.

Joan and I, we...

we went to the pictures.

One didn't have to speak differently to her.

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Craig Warner

Craig Warner (born 25 April 1964) is a multiple award-winning playwright and screenwriter who lives and works in Suffolk, England. His play Strangers on a Train, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, ran in London's West End in 2013–14, and starred Jack Huston, Laurence Fox, Miranda Raison, Imogen Stubbs, Christian McKay, and MyAnna Buring. It was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and produced by Barbara Broccoli. He wrote The Queen's Sister for Channel 4, which was nominated for several BAFTA awards (including Best Single Drama), Maxwell for BBC2, which garnered a Broadcasting Press Guild Award nomination for Best Single Drama and won David Suchet an International Emmy for Best Actor, and The Last Days of Lehman Brothers , for which Warner was longlisted for a BAFTA Craft Award for Best Writer, and which won him the award for Best Writer at the Seoul International Drama Awards in 2010. He wrote the mini-series Julius Caesar for Warner Bros., which gained Warner a Writers Guild Award nomination for Best Original Long-Form Drama, and he performed an extensive uncredited rewrite on The Mists of Avalon, also for Warner Bros., which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award and nine Emmys, including Best Mini-series. Warner wrote the screenplay for Codebreaker, a film about Alan Turing. Craig Warner started out writing for the theatre and for radio. His first radio play for BBC Radio 4, Great Men of Music, was performed by Philip Davis and was included in Radio 4's first Young Playwrights Festival. His second play By Where the Old Shed Used to Be, with Miranda Richardson, won the Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Plays of the Year, and it was included in the volume of winners for 1989, published by Methuen. His play Figure With Meat also won a Giles Cooper Award and was published in the Methuen volume of 1991. Craig Warner is the award's youngest ever winner, having received it for the first time when he was 24. He is also a composer and has written music and songs for a number of his works, including a full-length musical for BBC Radio 3 about the legend of Cassandra, called Agonies Awakening. Warner received a BA in Philosophy from King's College London and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He was born in Los Angeles. more…

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