Don’t have a TARDIS.
Do have an Ada.
Ada and Noor
are extraordinary women
and I think
there’s a lot more to their stories
than we can tell
in a Doctor Who story.
You’re Ada Lovelace!
Daughter of Lord Byron
and Annabella Millbanke
one of the great minds.
Ada Lovelace was a 
19th Century aristocrat
but in her own right she became
what we now would say the first 
computer programmer.
She wrote the first algorithm,
she worked with Charles Babbage
who invented the first 
mechanical computer.
It will count and perform quadratic equations.
He had built this machine
and she was the one
who saw the possibilities of that.
I am not a fool Doctor.
And I’m not treating you as one.
The exposure she had to this 
invention
and the thoughts that 
provoked in her
ripple down through time
and sort of are the kind of
foundation stone really 
of computer science today.
Don’t move.
I said don’t move.
We’re not hostile.
We’re here by accident.
Noor Inayat Khan was
the first female
special operations executive officer
essentially a spy
to be landed behind enemy lines.
Ada wait until you hear about Noor
she’s as impressive as you.
She was one of the first sort of
British wartime female Muslim 
heroines.
She was moving equipment 
around,
hiding it under floorboards,
felt completely alone
and her only sort of link
was these messages she was 
sending.
For me at that point I realised
just how lonely it must have been
in a really dangerous city.
She’s a remarkable figure
and we tell a tiny fraction of 
her character
but there’s a whole story there 
where you just go
she was amazing.
