Description
Tracklist:
A1: Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know
A2: He Dreamed Of Machines
A3: The Enigma
A4: Other Ranks
B1: The Memory And The Control
B2: The Trial
B3: Only In His Death
B4: A Man From The Future
This work has been revised and updated since its first performance at the BBC Proms in 2014. This new version, created in collaboration with Alan Turing biographer, Andrew Hodges, and with narration by Juliet Stevenson, explores eight significant chapters in the life and death of Alan Turing, the pioneering British mathematician and cryptanalyst who laid the foundations of modern computing.
Includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes, credits, lyrics/narrations, and photos. And the record in an inner picture sleeve.
Manchester Camerata Octet and the Manchester Grammar School choir recorded at Stoller Hall, Manchester.
Gordon Brown’s apology to Alan Turing (2009) Crown Copyright. Licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence V3.0.
Photographs:
Alan Turing portraits adapted from photographs owned by the Provost and Scholars of King’s College, Cambridge.
Three-mile race: National Physical Laboratory Crown Copyright / Science Photo Library.
The Enigma machine & Intercept control room: Bletchley Park Trust.
Delilah system: The National Archives.
With thanks to Black Bear Pictures.
& 2026 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd, under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Limited.
Made in Germany.
In the runouts, the “1=” is mirrored and all is hand-etched.
