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bletchley park podcast welcome to the december edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.

This month we'll look back over Alan Turing's centenary year when people around the world celebrated the codebreaker, mathematician and computer scientist.

We'll hear a moving remembrance poem written for and about Bletchley Park veterans by the Milton Keynes Poet Laureate Mark Neal

and will bring you an exclusive reading by Turing expert Professor Jack

Copeland from his new book.

But first, the Alan Turing special edition Monopoly Board has proved a big hit for

the Bletchley Park Trust this year.

The initial run of 2,000 copies sold out in short order, and now an army of

volunteers are furiously packing a second batch to make sure they arrive in time to be underneath

Christmas trees. William Newman, Max Newman's son, who drew the original board the special

edition is based on when he was just a boy, came in with Alan Turing's nephew, Sir John Dermott Turing,

to increase the value of a handful of boards by signing them.

This year has been quite incredible. You've become Dermott, quite a public figure,

talking about your uncle, haven't you? It's been the man everyone wants to hear about this year, hasn't it?

He has been the man everyone wants to hear about this year. Yes, I'm not quite sure why I get

there a reflected glory, but it's been a funny year, but it's also been very, very interesting

because one of the consequences of the

centenary year is that there have been many, many events, not just a pledgerly, but in various

parts of the country and indeed abroad, where various aspects of Vanityering's life and work

of being explored. And so I've been to a very large number of academic conferences and learned all sorts of

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