He cracked the Nazi's unbreakable code and saved an estimated two million lives. Winston Churchill called his work the single greatest contribution to Allied victory. But when the war ended, Britain repaid him with a criminal trial, forced chemical castration, and a death shrouded in mystery. Alan Turing invented the computer age, pioneered artificial intelligence, and shortened World War Two by years. Then his own government destroyed him for being gay.

This is the story of a mathematical genius whose mind could see patterns no one else could perceive, who built machines that thought before anyone believed machines could think, and who paid the ultimate price for loving the wrong person in the wrong era. It's about a man who kept the world's most important secret, only to have his most private secret weaponized against him. And it raises a question that still haunts us today: How many other brilliant minds have we lost to prejudice, fear, and cruelty disguised as morality?

Perfect for fans of forgotten heroes, WWII history, LGBTQ+ history, scientific breakthroughs with tragic endings, and stories about institutional betrayal that demand we ask: What do we owe the people who save us?

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Content Warning: This episode discusses state-sanctioned persecution, chemical castration, and suicide.