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Hidden Histories of the Information Age

Aleks Krotoski explores technological innovations and cultural events from the age of communication.

Radio 4,5 episodes

Episodes

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Enfield Exchange
Aleks Krotoski reveals how telephone exchanges changed young women's working lives.
20 Oct 2014,15 mins
Tat-1
How Paul Robeson used the transatlantic telephone cable to sing live to British fans.
21 Oct 2014,15 mins
Our World
How Our World became the first programme to link the globe by satellite in June 1967.
22 Oct 2014,15 mins
Leo Computer
How the teashop and cake company Lyons built the first business computer in the 1950s.
23 Oct 2014,15 mins
GPS
Aleks Krotoski tells the story of how GPS helped navigation in the first Gulf War.
24 Oct 2014,15 mins

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