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: https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk...

For more information on the radio series see: http://oro.open.ac.uk/5609/1/01299654...

Photo: Alan Turing (right) at the console of Mark II computer, c. 1951, at the University of Manchester.