Computing Britain Podcast
1) Mobile Revolution
Hannah Fry tells the story of the little known British company in Cambridge that designs and build the ARM chip, found in almost every mobile device in the world, and the impact it has had in powering...Show More
2) Dotcom Bubble
The city went crazy for dot com companies in 1999. But in March 2000, the boom suddenly turned into a bust. Hannah discovers that technology then wasn't up to the job.
3) UK Gaming
Computers in British schools and homes nurtured a generation of programmers who cut their teeth in the 1980s playing and writing video games. Mathematician Hannah Fry talks to the Oliver Twins, who a...Show More
4) Computers at Home
In the 1980s, 'micro computers' invaded the home. In this episode, Hannah Fry discovers how the computer was transported from the office and the classroom right into our living room. From eccentric...Show More
5) Computers in Class
As the manufacturing industries of the 1970s became the service sector of the 1980s, the BBC tried to help democratize the coming of the affordable microchip, to help re-equip a vulnerable workforce f...Show More
6) The Job Killer
From the earliest days of electronic computers, commentators feared that mass unemployment would result from the efficiencies of computers and automation in the workplace. These fears would resurface ...Show More
7) Connected Thinking
Long before the heroics of the world wide web, the internet was born out of a mixture of American ambition and British thrift. Packet Switching was the name coined by Welsh computer scientist Donald D...Show More
8) ERNIE Picks Prizes
'Savings with a thrill!' In 1956, adverts enticed the British public with a brand new opportunity. Buy premium bonds for one pound, for the chance to win a thousand. At the time, it was a fortune - h...Show More
9) LEO the Electronic Office
Hannah Fry hears the incredible story of how a chain of British teashops produced the first office computer in the world. J Lyons and Company was the UK's largest catering company, with 250 teashops ...Show More
10) Electronic Brains
From the mobile phone to the office computer, mathematician Hannah Fry looks back at 70 years of computing history, to reveal the UK's lead role in developing the technology we use today. In the firs...Show More