麻豆约拍 Radio 4 - Computing Britain

Computing Britain Episodes Available now

12/12 From the ZX Spectrum to the dot com bubble, Hannah Fry looks at our computing history.

11/12 Hannah Fry looks back at the UK's rich history of computing innovation.

10/12 Hannah Fry explores how a British company shrunk chips and made the mobile revolution.

9/12 Hannah Fry traces the dot com boom and bust in Britain between 1999 and March 2000.

8/12 Teens write computer games in their bedrooms, and a billion-dollar business is created.

7/12 How 1980s Britain grew to love the home computer. Presented by mathematician Hannah Fry.

6/12 Hannah Fry describes some 1980s efforts to inspire Britain to embrace computing.

5/12 Hannah Fry explores the pervasive fear that the computer would lead to mass unemployment.

4/12 The story of packet switching, how computers learned to talk to each other.

3/12 ERNIE, machine made by wartime code-breakers, becomes an unlikely celebrity.