Computing Britain Podcast
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
Episodes to download
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Mobile Revolution
Fri 25 Sep 2015
10/12 Hannah Fry explores how a British company shrunk chips and made the mobile revolution.
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Dotcom Bubble
Thu 24 Sep 2015
9/12 Hannah Fry traces the dot com boom and bust in Britain between 1999 and March 2000.
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UK Gaming
Wed 23 Sep 2015
8/12 Teens write computer games in their bedrooms, and a billion-dollar business is created.
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Computers at Home
Tue 22 Sep 2015
7/12 How 1980s Britain grew to love the home computer. Presented by mathematician Hannah Fry.
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Computers in Class
Mon 21 Sep 2015
6/12 Hannah Fry describes some 1980s efforts to inspire Britain to embrace computing.
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The Job Killer
Fri 18 Sep 2015
5/12 Hannah Fry explores the pervasive fear that the computer would lead to mass unemployment.
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Connected Thinking
Thu 17 Sep 2015
4/12 The story of packet switching, how computers learned to talk to each other.
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ERNIE Picks Prizes
Wed 16 Sep 2015
3/12 ERNIE, machine made by wartime code-breakers, becomes an unlikely celebrity.
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LEO the Electronic Office
Tue 15 Sep 2015
2/12 The story of the chain of British teashops that created the first office computer.
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Electronic Brains
Mon 14 Sep 2015
1/12 Hannah Fry travels back to the 1940s to hear the story of the creation of computer memory.
