Pet Shop Boys are pleased to announce the forthcoming album release of “A man from the future”, along with a special listening and conversation event in Manchester to mark the occasion. Five days ahead of its official release, the album will be made available to hear in full during two BBC global radio broadcasts on Sunday, 4th October.
Created in collaboration with Alan Turing biographer, Andrew Hodges, and performed by Pet Shop Boys and the Manchester Camerata Octet with narration by Juliet Stevenson and string arrangements by Sven Helbig, the work explores eight significant chapters in the life and death of Alan Turing, the pioneering British mathematician and cryptanalyst who laid the foundations of modern computing. The work has been revised and updated since its first performance at the BBC Proms in 2014. This new version, produced by Pet Shop Boys and Sven Helbig, will be released as an album on October 9th via Parlophone Records. It is now available to pre-order in various formats at the link below.
The complete recording will be given its world premiere along with an interview with Neil, Chris and Alan Turing biographer Andrew Hodges during Stuart Maconie’s “Freak Zone” show on BBC Radio 6Music on Sunday, 4th October at 8pm UK time. “A man from the future” will then also be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at 11.30 pm during Elizabeth Alker’s “Unclassified” programme, which will also feature a chat with Neil and Chris.
Pet Shop Boys and Andrew Hodges will also take part in a listening and conversation event for “A man from the future” on Thursday, 8th October at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester which will feature a full playback of the album followed by a discussion about the work by Pet Shop Boys and Andrew Hodges. The conversation will also be filmed and made available online shortly afterwards.
