WWII codebreaking hero Wren dies aged 98 after 'truly historic' contribution of smashing the Enigma code ⊕
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Codebreaker Ruth Bourne, from HIgh Barnet, north London, who worked alongside Alan Turing to crack the German's Enigma code, has died aged 98.
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What links Amy Adams, Teri Hatcher and Margot Kidder? The Saturday quiz ⊖
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From Cecil at Waitrose and Slinky at Tesco to an app designed to be deleted, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
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Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe is top notch as an on-trial Göring but Rami Malek lets side down ⊕⊕
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Crowe is wittily cast as the pompous Nazi in this tale from behind the scenes at the Nuremberg trials, but Malek is deeply silly as army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley
Here is a movie promising the juici…
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Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies ⊕⊕
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The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of compu…
Ultra rare Nazi cipher machine made after Bletchley Park sleuths cracked the Enigma code in WWII comes to light in 'untouched' condition ○
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The 'untouched' Lorenz SZ42 machine was introduced by the Germans in 1942 after the Bletchley Park codebreakers led by Alan Turing cracked the Enigma.
Plainclothes review – shame and anxiety in entrapment yarn about a gay cop going undercover ⊖⊖
A quietly observed New York police story explores desire, friendship and the pressures of identity
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Add to playlist: the 70s-inspired avant-pop of actor-academic Paul Grimstad and the week’s best new tracks ○
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The writer, lecturer and all-round culture maven’s restless creativity ranges from prog to pop to psych and boogie rock in a catchy, sometimes alarming mix
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Alex Lawther: ‘I really like kissing – I’m always looking forward to the next one’ ○
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The Alien: Earth star on the joys of kissing, disliking his forehead, and the time he tried (and failed) to get arrested
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Australian novel attracts controversy over fictionalised depiction of gay codebreaker Alan Turing ○
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Nick Croydon, the CEO of QBD Books, has faced criticism for his thriller The Turing Protocol
A novel written by a prominent book industry figure in which persecuted gay man Alan Turing has sex with a …
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Papers by WW2 codebreaker Alan Turing sell at auction for £465k ○
The collection, which included a copy of his PhD dissertation, were sold at auction on Tuesday.