BBC Radio Podcasts from Hidden Histories of the Information Age

Hidden Histories of the Information Age

GPS

Aleks Krotoski tells the story of how GPS helped navigation in the first Gulf War.

Leo Computer

How the teashop and cake company Lyons built the first business computer in the 1950s.

Our World

How Our World became the first programme to link the globe by satellite in June 1967.

Tat-1

How Paul Robeson used the transatlantic telephone cable to sing live to British fans.

Enfield Exchange

Aleks Krotoski reveals how telephone exchanges changed young women's working lives.