Research: Interview with Dermot Turing (2nd December), the nephew of Alan Turing(code breaker ww2).

We were lucky enough to get a 20 minute chat with Dermot Turing  at the signing of his biography about his uncle.
Questions I asked him and the response he gave:
What were you told about your uncle as a child:

• Not much really , because it was all kept secret. 
• Found out in the 1970's when the information was realise. 
• He was told that his uncle was eccentric.
• They don't talk too much about the end of Alan Turing's ( Sadly committed suicide 7th June 1954.) 

How did you find out about your uncle's work? 

• He had to go though the Bletchley Park records.( All information concerning the secret service was kept secret and wasn't realised until well after the war.)   
• He wasn't told that much about because his family knew anything.

What is your opinion on the film?

• Charles Dances character (Commander Denniston) was very sympathetic toward Alan Turing and never wore his uniform always casual cloths.(never really emphasised his rank.)
• He said that it was hard not to get drawn into that fictional world- misleading. also the time lines were different for cracking enigma, they spent longer on paper and built the machine much later.  
• Cumberbatch dose a great characterisation.  
• Film is great though.

Is there any part of Christopher (the Enigma Code Breaking Machine) remaining?

• Christopher is a myth, the machine was never called Christopher. 
• He was not obsessed with Christopher (his school friend) ,like the film portrayed, but he kept in touch with Christopher's mother for 10 yrs.
•  "The Bomb" when the machine was built, the government never knew what they where signing checks for the secret service wouldn't let them know. They just had to "Sign the bloody check".
• There is still a fully functioning model of the bomb in Bletchley Park. 

What is it like being the nephew of Alan Turing?

• "It is horrendous, but it is great". "Get asked a lot of weird questioned."