TO MARK National Numeracy Day, WE’LL BE WATCHING CODEBREAKER (2011), CO-DIRECTED BY Clare Beav
- May 19, 2021
- 1 min read
CODEBREAKER (2011)
CO-DIRECTED BY CLARE BEAVAN
Clare Beavan is an award winning British Director and producer best known for Daphne (2007), Codebreaker (2011), Simon Schama’s Power of Art (2006) and The Prince, the Showgirl and Me (2004). She was born in Hampshire and grew up in a Military family. She graduated from Goldsmiths College, London.
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Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German naval Enigma Code during World War II, arguably saving millions of lives. Turing’s achievements went unrecognised during his lifetime. Instead he ended up being treated as a common criminal, for being homosexual at a time when homosexual acts were a crime. In 1952, he was convicted of ‘gross indecency’ with another man and was forced to undergo so-called ‘organo-therapy’ – chemical castration. Two years later, he killed himself with cyanide, aged just 41. Alan Turing was driven to a terrible despair and early death by the nation he’d done so much to save.
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