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Actor, writer, comedian and Turing fan Mark Gatiss re-voices the influential text from 1951. On the 15th of May 1951, the mathematician Alan Turing delivered a lecture on the Â鶹Éç Home Service called "Can Digital Computers Think?" This was a part of a series of lectures on the emerging science of computing which featured other pioneers of the time, including D.R. Hartree, M.H.A. Newman, F.C. Williams and M.V Wilkes. No recording exists of Turing’s broadcast, but his original paper script, with his handwritten notes and markings, remains in the Â鶹Éç Written Archive. With thanks to the Turing Archive at King's College Cambridge. Produced by David Hyde.