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Britain's Greatest Codebreaker

Country: UK, Language: English, 60 mins

  • Director: Clare Beavan; Nic Stacey
  • Writer: Craig Warner; Simon Berthon
  • Producer: Paul Ashby; Jennifer Beamish

CGiii Comment

The tragedy of Alan Turing...

Chemically castrated by English law...

This decent docu-drama attempts to make amends...it is, possibly, an impossible task to make those amends.

Alan Turing took his own life...thanks to the treatment he received from the English Government...

Without him, there would have been no English Government.

RIP Mr Turing.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

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.

Cast & Characters

Ed Stoppard as Alan Turing;
Henry Goodman as Franz Greenbaum;
Paul McGann as Himself - Narrator;
Asa Briggs as Himself - Codebreaker, Bletchley Park;
Jean Valentine as Herself - WRNS and Bombe Operator, Bletchley Park;
David Leavitt as Himself - Alan Turing's Biographer;
Rolf Noskwith as Himself - Codebreaker, Bletchley Park;
Dermot Turing as Himself - Alan Turing's Nephew;
Christopher Morcom as Himself - Christopher Morcom's Nephew;
Ian Stewart as Himself - University of Warwick