On Sunday nights, Pacifica Radio KPFK is once again offering 2-hour audio presentations of stage plays recorded by the Los Angeles Theatre Works (LATW).
On July 30 at 10PM Pacific Time (1AM Eastern Time), they will be airing and live streaming "Breaking the Code" Starring Simon Templeman
In Hugh Whitemore's play, Simon Templeman stars as brilliant mathematician Alan Turing, the man who cracked the German Enigma code and enabled the Allies to win World War II. But Turing was to find that the country he saved cared less about his genius and more about his sexual orientation.
Featuring Simon Templeman, Sheelagh Cullen, Kenneth Danziger, Peter Dennis, Samantha Robson, Orlando Seale, W. Morgan Sheppard, and Andrew Sogliuzzo. Directed by Rosalind Ayres.
Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in July of 2003.
Also available at www.latw.org for one week only.[1]
[1] If this is meant to say "gratis", I haven't found that.
LATW notes
Breaking the Code is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays.
That page has DRM-free 2-CD sets and MP3s for sale ($30), available until the heat death of the universe, apparently.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @11:47AM (1 child)
In case you want to know the truth, it was actually Polish mathematicians who broke Enigma encryption. Turing can be credited with building his universal computer. But his English team were running plates smuggled from Poland. There was even a period when the smuggling was inhibited and they couldn't decrypt any Enigma messages. Essentially, Turing built hardware, Poles wrote software for it.
Saying that Turing broke Enigma is like saying that Intel made Firefox. No, it just happens to run on their hardware. The British like to remember history in this skewed manner, just like Americans like to think that Edison invented the lightbulb - he absolutely did not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @04:16PM
Are you talking about Zygalski sheets [wikipedia.org]? The Polish invented them, but the British manufactured their own, some of which were taken by Turing to the Polish cryptanalysts in France after Poland was conquered.
The Polish were reading Enigma messages and shared their techniques with the British and French. The British used that knowledge to design and build their own decryption machine, but it wasn't a mere clone of the Polish machine (bomba kryptologiczna).