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Description: On the 15th of May 1951 the BBC broadcasted a short lecture on the radio by the mathematician Alan Turing. His lecture was titled “Can Digital Computers Think?” and was part of a series of lectures which featured other leading figures in computing at the time. Unfortunately, these recording no longer exist, along with all other recordings of Alan Turing. The following is a rerecording of Alan Turing’s lost broadcast from his original script. See Turing's script at the Turing Digital Archive from King's College, Cambridge: turingarchive.org/browse.php/B/5 For more information on the radio series see: oro.open.ac.uk/5609/1/01299654.pdf Photo: Alan Turing (right) at the console of Mark II computer, c. 1951, at the University of Manchester.