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Electronic Brains

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

• 15 mins

LEO the Electronic Office

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

• 15 mins

ERNIE Picks Prizes

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

• 15 mins

Connected Thinking

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

• 15 mins

The Job Killer

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

• 15 mins

Computers in Class

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

• 15 mins

Computers at Home

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

• 15 mins

UK Gaming

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

• 15 mins

Dotcom Bubble

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

• 15 mins

Mobile Revolution

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

• 15 mins

Omnibus: 1940s to 1970s

Hannah Fry looks back at the UK's rich history of computing innovation.

• 58 mins

Omnibus: 1980s onwards

From the ZX Spectrum to the dot com bubble, Hannah Fry looks at our computing history.

• 58 mins