Back in nineteen ninety...something I saw Derek Jacobi play Alan Turing the the play of Breaking the Code. It was fantastic. The best theatrical performance I ever attended, including Derek Jacobi in Macbeth years later! I was really lucky because I saw it at Guildford, where the theatre is so small you can virtually spit on the actors (should you want to). Anyway, it changed my life. I was only 16 at the time and hadn't thought much about homosexuality, but after that it became a huge fascination. It was something about the tragedy and forbidden-ness of it all I found thrilling, I suppose. It's probably because of that play that I'm so open to slash like Jooster now.

Anyway, I agree, what happened to him was diabolical. I suppose he did have a choice, unlike Oscar Wilde, but - well - not much of one, eh.

I got the impression, though, that it was the way the government of his own country turned on him and dogged him with their mistrust, after the enormous service he had contributed in the war - that was what really got to him. Poor guy.