Breaking the Code Breaking the Code Breaking the Code is a 1986 play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II and a pioneer of computer science. The play thematically links Turing's cryptographic activities with his attempts to grapple with his homosexuality. It was adapted as a 1996 television film directed by Herbert Wise, with Derek Jacobi reprising his stage role as Turing. Following an eight-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London's West End beginning on 21 October 1986, the play
Cracking The Code was the last music Hubert ever made… so I felt a duty of care. I asked [Dr. John] to help me finish it and he agreed." Hubert Sumlin died 13 days after the recording session for "Cracking The Code" and the album captures his last ever recorded performance. Sumlin also posthumously provided inspiration for lead-off single ""Holla"". Petit recalled: "I’m thinking… it’s a shame we’ve got all these people celebrating [Hubert] and he’s not on [Hubert’s Blues]. So I went back to the tape of Hubert and I arranging the song and picked out the bits that might work. And