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RE: [UK] Cracking the Code - BBC1 Tonight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mullen, Patrick)
Wed Feb 5 13:45:53 1997
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 13:40:42 -0500
From: "Mullen, Patrick" <Patrick.Mullen@GSC.GTE.Com>
To: "'Simon E Spero'" <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: "'Cryptography'" <cryptography@c2.net>
Sounds interesting. Anyone know of any plans to air it in the States?
(PBS??)
Thanks!
~~ Patrick
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>From: Simon E Spero[SMTP:ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 1997 12:40 PM
>To: cryptography@c2.net
>Subject: [UK] Cracking the Code - BBC1 Tonight
>
>
>BBC1 will be showing "Cracking the Code" tonight at 10:30pm. This play is a
>biography of Alan Turing covering his life, work and death, and is being
>broadcast as part of BBC educations Numeracy season.
>
>Simon
>p.s.
> Strange how many cryptographers this century have been from groups
>targeted by Hitler for the death camps. Lots of Jews, Turing and co with
>pink triangles, the Polish contingent at Bletchley, etc. Now, were there
>any notable WW II crytographers of gypsy heritage?
>
>
