LEO editor

Granada TV (2003), London’s Home Movies. Episode 3 includes a section on LEO
featuring David Caminer and Peter Byford. Copy held by Trevor Hughes ex LEO
peripheral equipment engineer on VHS tapes

The event received wide coverage including interviews on the BBC Today programme,
BBC World Service, and BBC5 Live Outriders programme. It was also covered by the
Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail website. A video interview of Georgina Ferry,
Ernest Kaye, Mary Coombs, Ralph Land and Frank Land made for Google was also
presented. The links below include reports in media, video recordings, radio recordings,
photographs.
http://www.youtube.com/user/LeoCompSoc/videos
http://storify.com/lynetter/leo-60th-anniversary
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Tools/Print.aspx?CIID=280510

Second and Third link broken

“You (UK) invented computers in both concept and practice. (It is not widely known, but
the world’s first office computer was built in 1951 by Lyons’ chain of teashops!). Yet
today none of the world’s leading exponents in these fields are from the UK”
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/238974/mactaggart-lecture-2011.pdf

The Guardian on 2011 McTaggart Lecture Bridging the arts and sciences divide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/29/bridging-arts-science-divide

Sunday Telegraph July 1st 2012 Christopher Middleton interviews Eric Schmidt as
part of the paper’s campaign to “Make Britain Count” and in his comment on the
interview repeats Eric Schmidt’s earlier notes on the role played by LEO in pioneering
business computing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/maths–reform/9288256/Make-Britain-Count-Google-head-Eric-Schmidt-supports-our-campaign.html

TV Channel 5 ran a series of programmes on Disappearing Britain. The third episode
in December 2006, entitled The BRITISH CUPPA WITH WENDY CRAIG, and
included a section on J. Lyons with its Corner Houses and Teashops. This included the
story of LEO including an interview with Frank Land. See also
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/824846?view=synopsis and watch on
http://www.ovguide.com/tv_episode/disappearing-britain-season-1-episode-3-the-britishcuppa-with-wendy-craig-536421

Broken links above but this link refers https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmItems/153808988

BBC Radio 4 commissioned a programme from Pennine Productions called Electronic
Brains which was broadcast on 30 October 2001. The programme was compiled by and
fronted by Mike Hally and one of the four episodes featured the story of LEO. See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/electronicbrains.shtml

BBC Radio 5/Live Tuesday, 29 November 2011. Short piece by Jammilah Knowles on
the pioneering LEO enterprise. LEO: Making history.
BBC – Outriders: LEO: Making history

Celebrating LEO, the world’s first business computer, Google Europe Blog,,
November 17, 2011
http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/celebrating-leo-worlds-first-business.html

ITV (LWT London area only ) is to show a series of 8 programmes called London
Home Movies on Sunday afternoons. The series will start on 9th November 2012 at 5.30.
Several members have contributed to the series and Trevor Hughes’s contribution is
included in the first programme.
References to LEO will appear in the programme devoted to Work which will appear
on Sunday November 30th at 5.30 pm.
Interviews with David Caminer and Peter Byford will be included with the LEO film
and it will include some footage of a home movie taken by Brian Eaton in the sixties, of
LEO 3 together with an interview with Brian