Computing Britain

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2015-11-16

  Mobile Revolution

Hannah Fry tells the story of the little known British company in Cambridge that designs and build the ARM chip, found in almost every mobile device in the world, and the impact it has had in powering the digital age. The team at Acorn had designed th... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2015-11-16

  Dotcom Bubble

The city went crazy for dot com companies in 1999. But in March 2000, the boom suddenly turned into a bust. Hannah discovers that technology then wasn't up to the job. 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2015-11-16

  UK Gaming

Computers in British schools and homes nurtured a generation of programmers who cut their teeth in the 1980s playing and writing video games. Mathematician Hannah Fry talks to the Oliver Twins, who as teenagers won a games-writing competition on ITV's... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2015-11-16

  Computers at Home

In the 1980s, 'micro computers' invaded the home. In this episode, Hannah Fry discovers how the computer was transported from the office and the classroom right into our living room. From eccentric electronics genius Clive Sinclair and his ZX80, to ... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2015-11-16

  Computers in Class

As the manufacturing industries of the 1970s became the service sector of the 1980s, the BBC tried to help democratize the coming of the affordable microchip, to help re-equip a vulnerable workforce for a digital future. The BBC Computer Literacy Proj... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2015-11-16

  The Job Killer

From the earliest days of electronic computers, commentators feared that mass unemployment would result from the efficiencies of computers and automation in the workplace. These fears would resurface over the decades, but came to a head towards the end... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2015-11-16

  Connected Thinking

Long before the heroics of the world wide web, the internet was born out of a mixture of American ambition and British thrift. Packet Switching was the name coined by Welsh computer scientist Donald Davies in an effort to link the early computers in th... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2015-11-16

  ERNIE Picks Prizes

'Savings with a thrill!' In 1956, adverts enticed the British public with a brand new opportunity. Buy premium bonds for one pound, for the chance to win a thousand. At the time, it was a fortune - half the price of the average house. Behind this tan... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2015-11-16

  LEO the Electronic Office

Hannah Fry hears the incredible story of how a chain of British teashops produced the first office computer in the world. J Lyons and Company was the UK's largest catering company, with 250 teashops across the country. They also owned their own bakeri... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2015-11-16

  Electronic Brains

From the mobile phone to the office computer, mathematician Hannah Fry looks back at 70 years of computing history, to reveal the UK's lead role in developing the technology we use today. In the first episode, she travels back to the 1940s, to hear th... 		  BBC Radio 4 author