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Radio 5 Live,2 mins

Royal Pardon for WW2 hero Alan Turing

Victoria Derbyshire

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Alan Turing, the man who cracked German communication codes in WW2, has been given a posthumous royal pardon. He was convicted of being gay in 1952, and chemically castrated.

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