BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2nd November, 2013:

BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2nd November, 2013, 9.00-12.00 am and 7.00- 10.pm. A three
hour compilation of computing history from the BBC radio archives, fronted by Maggie
Philbin at Bletchley Park. The programme started with Charles Babbage, and Ada
Lovelace, went on to Bletchley and the second world war code breaking exploits, then
the LEO story from the Make Hally LEO episode in the four-part story of the Dawn of
Computers (about 20 minutes), Clive Sinclair and the Micro Computer revolution,
Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web, and finally the spread of Social Computing with
Facebook and Twitter. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g8lxl

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