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Jez Pike

Musical artist

Jul 15, 2026

3:46
So who wants to feel this next one, really? I mean, I guess what I'm looking for is an explanation of what makes the story one worth telling.
3:54
So people might be familiar with Alan Turing from the film, possibly, The Enigma Code, which is, I guess, about a decade old, and starred Benedict Cumberbatch.
4:07
And that focused quite a lot on his key role at Bletchley Park.
4:13
uh in the second world war which is where their kind of code breaking center was and their ability to break the u-boat codes which was done by a machine that the germans invented called the enigma basically kept britain in the war and and then and then enabled enable Britain to eventually succeed.
4:34
And then his life after that continued to be very cutting edge in terms of mathematics and he was involved in building the first digital computer at Manchester University.
4:46
And so really quite a genius who was at the forefront of kind of computing.
4:53
and then has this complex personal life, which the film kind of covers and the play kind of covers.
8:33
Yeah, makes it resonate more, really getting to know him like that.

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