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Hidden Histories of the Information AgeEpisodes

  1. Mon 4 May 202609:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra

    1. Enfield Exchange

    1/5How telephone exchanges changed young women's working lives. Presented by Aleks Krotoski.

  2. Tue 5 May 202609:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    2/5How Paul Robeson used the transatlantic telephone cable to sing live to British fans.

  3. Wed 6 May 202609:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra

    3. Our World

    3/5How "Our World" became the first programme to link the globe by satellite in June 1967.

  4. Thu 7 May 202609:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra

    4. Leo Computer

    4/5How the teashop and cake company, Lyons, built the first business computer in the 1950s.

  5. Fri 8 May 202609:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra

    5. GPS

    5/5Aleks Krotoski tells the story of how GPS helped navigation in the first Gulf War.