PCs Gone Mad: Computers in Fiction and Reality
Broadcaster and comedian Steve Punt fires up the archives to examine the cultural history of computers on screen. With guests Charlie Brooker, Zoe Kleinman and Kevin Murrell.
Broadcaster and comedian Steve Punt fires up the archives to examine the cultural history of computers on screen.
From Katharine Hepburn and the electronic brain of the 1950s, to Jurassic Park and the threat of malicious hackers; Steve explores the parallel history of how (and why) the fiction and the fact of computers developed.
With guests:
Charlie Brooker, media commentator and creator of Black Mirror
Zoe Kleinman, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Technology Editor
Kevin Murrell, co-founder of The National Museum of Computing
Producer: Becca Bryers
A Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Studios Audio production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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