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Hidden Histories of the Information Age Episodes

    GPS

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

    Leo Computer

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

    Our World

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

    Tat-1

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

    Enfield Exchange

    1/5 Aleks Krotoski reveals how telephone exchanges changed young women's working lives.