First Genesis LAMDA Scholar in new BBC TV series

The actor Samuel Barnett, a former recipient of the Genesis Bursary at LAMDA, takes the part of Alan Turing, the World War II Enigma code-breaker, in Turing's Test.  This new audio drama runs from October 24th on The Independent's website as part of a pioneering collaboration between the newspaper and award-winning production company Made in Manchester (MIM).

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Barnett, whose credits include Alan Bennett's The History Boys and the BBC's recent series about the Pre-Raphaelites, Desperate Romantics, will also appear from early November on BBC 2 in a new series of Jonathan Harvey's comedy Beautiful People.

Turing's Test speculates on Turing's dying thoughts after he poisoned himself with cyanide in 1954.  In early September 2009, Turing received a posthumous apology from Gordon Brown for the state persecution he suffered for being gay.