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The Material World

on BBC Radio 4 FM

On 26th January 1926, John Logie Baird gave the world's first demonstration of true television. That "mechanical televisor" of 80 years ago has now been superseded by plasma screens and LCD flat panels. But what of tomorrow's technologies? Quentin Cooper talks to the scientists and experts who are building prototypes and investigates the way they might change how and where we watch television. Producer Colin Grant

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Unknown:
John Logie Baird
Talks:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
Colin Grant

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