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Computing Britain

Hannah Fry looks back at 75 years of computing history to reveal the UK's lead role in developing the technologies we rely on today

Radio 4,12 episodes

Episodes

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Electronic Brains
Hannah Fry travels back to the 1940s to hear the story of the creation of computer memory.
15 mins14 Sep 2015
LEO the Electronic Office
The story of the chain of British teashops that created the first office computer.
15 mins15 Sep 2015
ERNIE Picks Prizes
ERNIE, machine made by wartime code-breakers, becomes an unlikely celebrity.
15 mins16 Sep 2015
Connected Thinking
The story of packet switching, how computers learned to talk to each other.
15 mins17 Sep 2015
The Job Killer
Hannah Fry explores the pervasive fear that the computer would lead to mass unemployment.
15 mins18 Sep 2015
Computers in Class
Hannah Fry describes some 1980s efforts to inspire Britain to embrace computing.
15 mins21 Sep 2015
Computers at �鶹Լ��
How 1980s Britain grew to love the home computer. Presented by mathematician Hannah Fry.
15 mins22 Sep 2015
UK Gaming
Teens write computer games in their bedrooms, and a billion-dollar business is created.
15 mins23 Sep 2015
Dotcom Bubble
Hannah Fry traces the dot com boom and bust in Britain between 1999 and March 2000.
15 mins24 Sep 2015
Mobile Revolution
Hannah Fry explores how a British company shrunk chips and made the mobile revolution.
15 mins25 Sep 2015
Omnibus: 1940s to 1970s
Hannah Fry looks back at the UK's rich history of computing innovation.
58 mins10 Mar 2017
Omnibus: 1980s onwards
From the ZX Spectrum to the dot com bubble, Hannah Fry looks at our computing history.
58 mins17 Mar 2017