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BBC Radio 4: Hidden Histories of the Information Age 23rd October 2014 at 13.45.
Repeated week commencing January 4th with LEO story on 7th January at 9.30 am. One
of six 15 minute programmes, presented by Aleks Krotoski, devoted to specific exhibits
at the new Information Age Gallery which opened on 24th October in the London
Science Museum. The program, on the 23rd of October, told the story of LEO as ushering
in the new age of business computing. It involved interviews with Jessica Bradford from
the Museum (content manager of the new Gallery, Gloria Guy and Frank Land from the
LEO Computers Society, a teashop manageress who had been a user of the original
teashop ordering program and nicely rounded off by Tilly Blyth (who had been largely
instrumental in the making of the new Gallery from concept to final exhibit) from the
Science Museum. Altogether a well-balanced telling of the LEO story and how it fits
into the development of the Information Age. It can be heard on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04m3ftg

The Guardian Notes and Theories from the Science Desk, 22rd October carries a
comprehensive note on the Science Museum Information Age Gallery LEO Story
Exhibit, including the film clip which forms part of the LEO exhibit.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/oct/22/information-age-cake-computer-changed-world-science-museum

The Richmond and Twickenham Times Nov 2014 carried a photograph of the
presentation to Jackie Caminer and Helen Pinkerton of framed photographs of David
Caminer and John Pinkerton respectively by Peter Byford and Ray Hennessy. Included
was a brief summary of the LEO story and the key roles played by David Caminer and
John Pinkerton in the LEO story. See
http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/11581099.Widows_gather
_for_tribute_to_their_husbands_pioneering_computer_work/

The Sound of LEO I (1955) as heard in the BC Television Series Quartermas II. Only a
short piece which can be downloaded at
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/56533/Quatermass-II-(Sound-of-LEO-I)/

BBC Radio 4 ‘Ways of thinking’ 4th April, 2015, 1.30. An account by Naomi
Alderman of what programming and coding involves including looking back at what
underlies high level languages with an excerpt from Mary Coombs Oral History talking
about programming LEO I

BBC Radio 4 ‘In Business’ 9 April 2015 8.30 pm includes reference to LEO with some
photos. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pqx2g

Stewarts & Lloyds. Corby Town Council is holding a heritage exhibition, open until end of
September, 2015 1.00-4..00 weekdays, 11.00-2.00 Saturday, celebrating the town’s connection
with early computers. It features LEO II/3, the first LEO delivered to an outside company:
Stewart & Lloyds, steel makers located at that time in
Corby. See Ravenscraig Article

Both links Broken

Living Legends Hidden Histories Exhibition, including a presentation on LEO II/3 at
Stewarts and Lloyds and exhibit of Mercury Delay memory. Thursday 3rd May 2018 at
6.00pm
Rooftop Arts Centre. Chisholm House, Queens Square, Corby, NN17 1PZ

BBC Radio London, 2010, interview of Neville Lyons, with Robert Elms, on the
occasion of opening of the new Modern London gallery in the Museum of London,
which featured part of the frontage of the Coventry Street Corner House, donated by J
Lyons company to the Museum

BBC Radio 4 ‘Today Programme’ 2013 on the occasion of a major exhibition of the
Lyons Teashop Lithographs at the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne. The recording,
introduced by Justin Webb, was conducted by Nicola Stanbridge, the interviewees
Neville Lyons, Charlie Batchelor, Curator and David Gentleman, one of the lithograph
artists.