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That Time The Pet Shop Boys Wrote An Opera About Alan Turing For The BBC Proms

MUSIC Posted: July 21, 2014 9:30 am

“The fact that a public work like this [is] going ahead in the very centre of one of our most famous concert series, on the BBC … there’s a sense of making up and making good, of expunging a lot of what was so bad about the old world.”

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MUSIC Published: 07.19.14

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