Computers, Computer Science, History of Computers, Internet

Last Edited: 17-Oct-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recordings are good unless otherwise indicated.
Hardware and Software

Computing Britain

Date Title Cast Parameters
03-Aug-2009
 Chips With Everything
 Sue Nelson
produced by Anna Lacey
 27:56, 26192, S
26-Sep-2011
03-Oct-2011		 Robots that Care
 Jon Stewart
Producer: Colin Grant
 27:50, 26047, S
27:45, 25976, S
12-Jun-2012 The Turing Solution Matt Parker
produced by Roland Pease		 27:45, 25967, S
20-Oct-2014 to
24-Oct-2014		 Hidden Histories of the Information Age
  1. Enfield Exchange
  2. Tat-1
  3. Our World
  4. Leo Computer
  5. GPS
 Aleks Krotoski 13:34, 12776, S
13:41, 12875, S
13:36, 12801, S
13:33, 12761, S
13:33, 12750, S
06-Apr-2015 to
10-Apr-2015
 Codes that Changed the World
  1. Fortran
  2. Cobol
  3. Basic
  4. Java
  5. Babel

 Aleks Krotoski

 5 files
1:09:24, 63.5 MB, S
Information Technology

Click On

Date Title Cast Parameters
06-Oct-2004
13-Oct-2004
 Losing the Past
Preserving Analogue and Digital Data
  1. What’s Been Lost Already
  2. Saving Our History
 Richard Hollingham
Arlen Gregorius
 8:04, 26315, S
28:12, 26440, S
WAMU
10-Oct-2006
 IM Records and the Law
 Corey Flintoff
 48:43, 45688, S
02-Jan-2008
 The Computer with a Poker Face
 Simon Singh
Produced by Amanda Hargreaves
 28:02, 26306, S
21-Aug-2013 The I.T. Girls Martha Lane Fox
Producer: Oliver Woods 		27:50, 26055, S
04-Nov-2013 Invalid Password: The Password, a History of Failure Tim Samuels
Producer: Barney Rowntree		 27:38, 25858, S
10-Dec-2013 Data, Data Everywhere... Timandra Harkness
Producer: Martin Rosenbaum		 27:52, 26079, S
08-Jan-2014 Natalie Haynes's Brave New Algo-World Natalie Haynes
produced by Paul Smith		 27:50, 26050, S
16-Mar-2014 Crypto Wars Gordon Corera
Producer: Mark Savage		 27:44, 25949, S
Applications

Date Title Cast Parameters
18-Oct-2004
 Microsoft Powerpoint and the Decline of Civilisation
 D J Taylor
Produced by Michael Blastland
 14:09, 13278, S
11-Feb-2005
 From Arial to Wide Latin
Typography, Fonts and what they say about us
 Ian Peacock
Produced by Erika Wright
 28:11, 26431, S
11-Jan-2007
 Open Source
 Paul Bennun
Produced by Matt Hayward
 28:14, 26470, S
14-Dec-2007
21-Dec-2007
 Game Academy
 Anthony Baxter
Produced by Richard Finney
 27:43, 25994, S
27:56, 26203, S
01-Jun-2009
 Inside the Virtual Anthill:
Open Source Means Business
 Gerry Northam
produced by Mike Halley
 28:10, 26420, S
20-Apr-2010
 Biometrics: An Identity Crisis
 Gerry Northam
produced by Rami Tzabar
 36:53, 34583, S
04-Jun-2010
11-Jun-2010
 The eSportsmen -- professional gamers
 Kate Russell
Producer: Paul Peachey
 27:17, 25595, S
27:45, 26017, S
15-Feb-2011
 Bleep Bleep Bloop: Music and Video Games
 Paul Bennun
Producer: Russell Finch
 27:39, 25930, S
03-Jun-2011
 Virtually Famous --
a 48 hour Games Jam for video games designers
 Ellie Gibson
Producer: Toby Field
 27:38, 25923, S
14-May-2013
 State of Play
 Alex Butterworth
Producer: Emma Kingsley
 27:27, 25724, S
Internet and the Web
Date Title Cast Parameters
13-Mar-2006
 Virus Wars
 Quentin Cooper
Producer: Patrick Campbell
 28:03, 26312, S
29-Aug-2006 to
26-Sep-2006
 Meet the Bloggers
  1. Ticket Tales
  2. It's Personal
  3. That's Entertainment
  4. It's Political
  5. In Sickness and in Health
 Mark Savage
Edited by Gwynneth Williams
 13:58, 13103, S
13:44, 12882, S
14:01, 13150, S
14:01, 13146, S
14:14, 13360, S
24-Apr-2007
 Internet Sleuths
 produced by Sarah Parker
 28:17, 26518, S
24-Jul-2007
 The Wikipedia Story
 Clive Anderson
Produced by Simon Hollis, Rose Garnet
 28:20, 26569, S
24-Sep-2007 to
26-Sep-2007
 Bullying.com
 Penny Marshall
Produced by Eve Streeter
 28:35, 26798, S
28:05, 26329, S
27:48, 26064, S
28-Nov-2007
05-Dec-2007
 Power and the Web
 Matthew d'Ancona
Produced by Helen Grady
 13:50, 12973, S
13:38, 12788, S
13-Dec-2007
 Investigation – Spam
 Simon Cox
Produced by Richard Vardon
 27:53, 26152, S
19-Dec-2007
 New Kids on the Blog
 Matt Frei
Produced by Naomi Grimley
 28:18, 26534, S
13-Jan-2009
 Online Damage - Porn in the 21st Century
 Penny Marshall
produced by Sue Mitchell
 37:24, 34925, S
09-Feb-2009
 God.com
 Robert Beckford
Produced by Madeleine Brolly
 27:55, 26181, S
10-Mar-2009
 What Texting Owes to the Literary Enlightenment
 Chris Addison, Ian Rankin, Scott Tyrell
produced by Sally Harrison
 27:08, 25449, S
28-Apr-2009
 Hacked to Pieces
 Jolyon Jenkins
 37:12, 34886, S
07-Aug-2009
 Can't Connect, Won't Connect
 Chris Bowlby
 27:43, 25987, S
16-Feb-2010
 Watching the Watchdog --
Examining a new internet watchdog to protect children
 Penny Marshall
produced by Eve Streater
 27:59, 26244, S
21-May-2010
 i-shrine
how the internet and technology is changing
the way we deal with death
 Producer: Peregrine Andrews
 28:00, 26265, S
26-Jan-2011 to
09-Feb-2011
 The Secret History of Social Networking
 Rory Cellan-Jones
produced by Mike Wendling
 27:52, 26137, S
27:40, 25949, S
27:56, 26196, S
22-Mar-2011
 What's in a Meme?
 Susan Blackmore  
produced by Jessica Treen
 27:44, 26008, S
06-Jan-2012
 The Internet Millionaires' Club
 Jolyon Jenkins
27:47, 26001, S
27-Nov-2012
 The Hackers
 Simon Cox
produced by John Murphy
 35:40, 33375, S
07-Jan-2013
 Do I Have a Right to Be Forgotten?
 Emma Barnett
Producer: Clare Walker
 27:46, 25979, S
01-Jul-2013
08-Jul-2013
15-Jul-2013
 Under Attack: The Threat from Cyberspace
  1. Espionage
  2. Sabotage and Subversion
  3. Warfare
 Gordon Corera
Producer: Mark Savage
 27:44, 25957, S
27:46, 25986, S
27:41, 25911, S
15-Jul-2013
22-Jul-2013
29-Jul-2013
 Privacy under Pressure
  1. Online privacy
  2. Visual privacy
  3. Panel discussion
 Steve Hewlett
Producer: Jane Ashley
 27:57, 26153, S
27:59, 26192, S
27:34, 25806, S
BBC R4
13-Oct-2014 to
17-Oct-2014
 Networking Nation
  1. Networks Are Everywhere
  2. Networking Selfie
  3. The Science of Networks
  4. The World of Work
  5. Nation of Networkers
 Julia Hobsbawm
Producer: Karen Gregor
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1:07:18, 61.6 MB, S