Computing Britain

Hannah Fry tells the story of the little known British company in Cambridge that designs and build the ARM chip, found i... Read more

The city went crazy for dot com companies in 1999. But in March 2000, the boom suddenly turned into a bust. Hannah disco... Read more

Computers in British schools and homes nurtured a generation of programmers who cut their teeth in the 1980s playing and... Read more

In the 1980s, 'micro computers' invaded the home. In this episode, Hannah Fry discovers how the computer was transported... Read more

As the manufacturing industries of the 1970s became the service sector of the 1980s, the BBC tried to help democratize t... Read more

From the earliest days of electronic computers, commentators feared that mass unemployment would result from the efficie... Read more

Long before the heroics of the world wide web, the internet was born out of a mixture of American ambition and British t... Read more

'Savings with a thrill!'In 1956, adverts enticed the British public with a brand new opportunity. Buy premium bonds for ... Read more

Hannah Fry hears the incredible story of how a chain of British teashops produced the first office computer in the world... Read more

From the mobile phone to the office computer, mathematician Hannah Fry looks back at 70 years of computing history, to r... Read more