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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.
15 mins20 Oct 2014
Tat-1
How Paul Robeson used the transatlantic telephone cable to sing live to British fans.
15 mins21 Oct 2014
Our World
How Our World became the first programme to link the globe by satellite in June 1967.
15 mins22 Oct 2014
Leo Computer
How the teashop and cake company Lyons built the first business computer in the 1950s.
15 mins23 Oct 2014
GPS
Aleks Krotoski tells the story of how GPS helped navigation in the first Gulf War.
15 mins24 Oct 2014