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Who Did What Now

147. Alan Turing - The Codebreaker

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

Feminist, History

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Alan Turing is a man who deserved to be celebrated, a cryptanalyst, mathematician and codebreaker who helped win the Second World War, A man who was possibly neurodivergent and definitely homosexual. This pride month I am so excited to finally tell you about about the genius, Alan Turing.


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0:00.0

Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now, the History Podcast

0:12.1

that's not your history class, with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet and

0:17.7

Reader of Books. I may have been ranting on the internet this week.

0:23.0

I mean, I did have some good stuff, but let's start with the ranting.

0:26.9

Because yet again, our souls cannot keep Anne Frank's name out of their damn mouths.

0:34.0

One week, they're arguing that she never existed.

0:39.1

And the very next, they're going,

0:42.4

don't use her as a comparison as to what ICE are doing.

0:44.3

What?

0:48.8

And may I add, the fuck, because here's the thing.

0:56.3

As historical references go, this is a fairly accurate one. And I know I don't really talk about the Holocaust too much because one, it's incredibly depressing. And two, this is not your history class.

1:04.8

Like, I don't cover the very, very basics. Like, hey, they mass deported people into camps. Like, this, I felt,

1:15.3

was a general knowledge situation, although in recent years I've discovered what I've thought

1:20.1

is a fact everyone knew. Like, general knowledge, common knowledge, has turned out to be not

1:26.0

the case. So, yeah, okay. So anyway,

1:30.0

I've been ranting on the internet about that because it's like, how dare you? I also got

1:37.0

to use a Malibu-Stacey reference, so that was fun for me. But it's just like, how dare you?

1:42.4

How dare you try and use this poor girl who suffered in life and in death?

1:50.0

How dare you?

1:52.0

I am levitt.

1:54.0

I am, to quote my boss, cross.

1:56.0

I am cross.

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