Absolutely right. It was disgraceful, but another time, another place.
My favorite podcast is a BBC production called "In Our Time." The host Melvyn Bragg brings on brilliant guests, usually three during an episode, to discuss a topic. The guests are all experts on the selected topic. I love to play these in the car whenever I'm driving on a long trip or on errands about town. They are available on Apple Podcasts or from BBC itself.
The topic on October 15, 2020 was Alan Turing. The podcast is excellent -- all about Turing's life, his brilliant work, his awkward social life, and his tragic end. Highly recommended.
BBC Podcast: Alan Turing
Apple Podcast: Alan Turing
Podcast blurb: "Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Alan Turing (1912-1954) whose 1936 paper On Computable Numbers effectively founded computer science. Immediately recognised by his peers, his wider reputation has grown as our reliance on computers has grown. He was a leading figure at Bletchley Park in the Second World War, using his ideas for cracking enemy codes, work said to have shortened the war by two years and saved millions of lives. That vital work was still secret when Turing was convicted in 1952 for having a sexual relationship with another man for which he was given oestrogen for a year, or chemically castrated. Turing was to kill himself two years later. The immensity of his contribution to computing was recognised in the 1960s by the creation of the Turing Award, known as the Nobel of computer science, and he is to be the new face on the £50 note.">
Related from a few days ago: Nazi Operated Enigma Machine Retrieved In Baltic Sea.
I listening to the program now- excellent!