Hidden Histories of the Information Age

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2014-10-24

  GPS

Soldiers traditionally learned to find their way around with a compass and a map. Aleks Krotoski explores how GPS transformed navigation during the first Gulf War in 1991. An early brick sized GPS device is on display in the 'Information Age' gallery ... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2014-10-23

  Leo Computer

The company that brought computers into business was Lyons, known for its cakes and teashops. Aleks Krotoski tells the story of how this technology transformed office work. One element of the first Lyons Electronic Office, or LEO, computer is on disp... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2014-10-22

  Our World

On June 25th 1967, 400 million people across the globe watched a ground-breaking TV show. It was called, in English, OUR WORLD and it was a feat beyond technological imagination: it was the first programme that linked up countries live by satellite. So... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2014-10-21

  Tat-1

In 1957 the singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson in 1957 performed a concert to an audience sitting in St Pancras Town Hall in London. Astonishingly, Paul Robeson was in New York at the time, and he was performing live over a transatlan... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2014-10-20

  Enfield Exchange

"Hello Girls" In 1960 the women telephonists of the Enfield exchange said goodbye to the last manual telephone exchange in Greater London. For decades they had put through calls using this plugboard machine, providing a polite and friendly voice to an... 		  BBC Radio 4 author