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Episode 6: Computers in Class

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

Hannah Fry describes some 1980s efforts to inspire Britain to embrace computing, the birth of the BBC Micro and computers in schools.

As the manufacturing industries of the 1970s became the service sector of the 1980s, the BBC tried to help democratize the coming of the affordable microchip, to help re-equip a vulnerable workforce for a digital future.

The BBC Computer Literacy Project was aimed initially at adults, but somehow ended up putting a beige BBC Microcomputer in the corner of nearly every classroom in the land.

Presented by Hannah Fry

Produced by Alex Mansfield.

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Hannah Fry reveals the UK's lead role in developing computer technologies we rely on today

Hannah Fry looks back at 75 years of computing history to reveal the UK's lead role in developing the technologies we rely on today

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