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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Letters That Changed The World

Intelligence Squared

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A Brief History of Turing's Affair With a Young Man

Alan Turing was arrested for gross indecency in 1952. He avoided a prison sentence by agreeing to undergo chemical treatment. But he committed suicide two years later, and didn't live to see homosexuality decriminalised. The story of how it all came to be found out is 'a long and fascinating one'

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