BBC Radio Podcasts from Computing Britain

Computing Britain

Mobile Revolution

Hannah Fry explores how a British company shrunk chips and made the mobile revolution.

Dotcom Bubble

Hannah Fry traces the dot com boom and bust in Britain between 1999 and March 2000.

UK Gaming

Teens write computer games in their bedrooms, and a billion-dollar business is created.

Computers at Home

How 1980s Britain grew to love the home computer. Presented by mathematician Hannah Fry.

Computers in Class

Hannah Fry describes some 1980s efforts to inspire Britain to embrace computing.

The Job Killer

Hannah Fry explores the pervasive fear that the computer would lead to mass unemployment.

Connected Thinking

The story of packet switching, how computers learned to talk to each other.

ERNIE Picks Prizes

ERNIE, machine made by wartime code-breakers, becomes an unlikely celebrity.

LEO the Electronic Office

The story of the chain of British teashops that created the first office computer.

Electronic Brains

Hannah Fry travels back to the 1940s to hear the story of the creation of computer memory.