Project Series
The original Computer Literacy Project programmes
The Silicon Factor
Current affairs presenter Bernard Falk fronts three peak hour programmes about the ‘microelectronics revolution’.
Managing the Micro
‘Today’ presenter Brian Redhead asks how small businesses can use the new technology. From knickers to greenhouses.
The Computer Programme
Chris Serles and Ian McNaught Davis explore the wide world of computer science and introduce The BBC Micro.
Making the Most of the Micro
Ian McNaught Davis, John Coll and others explain the many things computers can do, with plenty of hands on demos.
MTMOTM Live Special
Two special live programmes with audience feedback, new demos, and even on-air hacking.
Computers in Control
Ian Mc Naught Davis (Mac) presents a complete look at the principles of robotics - with ‘how to’ demos of monitoring and control.
Electronic Office
A six-part examination of the office technology of today and tomorrow.
Micro Live
Three years of regular live programmes about the world of IT - including the latest news and research. Presented by Mac, Lesley Judd, Fred Harris and Freff from the USA.
With a Little Help from the Chip
How micro-technology can help people with disability to live more independently.
Micro Mind Stretchers
Carol Vorderman sets challenges for schools to make imaginative use of their home computers and looks at the results.
The Trojan Mouse
A special programme in 1992 looks back ten years to the 1980s BBC Computer Literacy Project.
Related Programmes
Horizon (1978)
The influential 'Now the Chips are Down' drew attention to computer technology creeping up on the world and to Britain's unreadiness for it.
The BBC Computer Literacy Project
The Backstory: A talk by David Allen at the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park.
BBC Make it Digital
Bill Thompson talks about the BBC's Make it Digital initiative and the BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive.
The BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive
Behind the scenes with Steve Lowry's archive database.
The BBC Computer Literacy Project Interviews
Interviews with key figures from the Computer Literacy Project.
Other Programmes
Various BBC programmes providing insight and commentary on computing and technology
Tomorrow's World
A compilation of Tomorrow's World features looking at how computers were in the sixties and what they might become.
Visions of the Future
Michio Kaku shows how artificial intelligence is going to become ubiquitous.
Timewatch
Documentary that reveals the secret story of The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park.
Steve Jobs
Evan Davis tells the story of Steve Jobs' rise, fall and triumphant rise again.
Megabits
Five short-form videos which give students studying Computer Science an insight into how computers actually work.
Desert Island Discs
Computing-specific guest editions from the Desert Island Discs archive.
Ways of Thinking
Naomi Alderman looks at the advantages of thinking algorithmically.
Radio 4: Codes that Changed the World
Aleks Krotoski tells the story of the languages that have been used to talk to machines.
Collectaholics
Jasmine Harman meets a professor of neural computation with 4 warehouses containing 1,000 obsolete computers.
Bletchley Park: Code-breaking's Forgotten Genius
Gordon Welchman was one of the original elite Bletchley Park codebreakers crucial to defeating the Nazis in World War II.
Radio 4: The Museum Of Curiosity
A one-off coding special with mathematician Matt Parker, computer pioneer Eben Upton and illustrator and writer Sydney Padua.
The Letters of Ada Lovelace
The correspondence of Ada Lovelace, the young Victorian who predicted our digital age.
Radio 4: Computing Britain
Hannah Fry looks back at 75 years of computing history to reveal the UK's lead role in developing the technologies we rely on.
Calculating Ada
Dr Hannah Fry tells the story of computer pioneer Ada Lovelace's remarkable life.
The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms
Mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy demystifies the hidden world of algorithms.
Radio 4: The Long View
Jonathan Freedland explores today's concerns about the privacy of our communications, and debates about encryption.
Archive on 4
Naomi Alderman explores the history of interactive fiction and video games.
The Joy of Data
Mathematician Hannah Fry asks, what is data, how is it stored, shared, and made sense of?
The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook
Dominic Sandbrook looks at technological change, the microchip and Margaret Thatcher's Nation of Young Programmers of the 1980s.
Reflections
Kenneth Baker, the I.T. man of Margaret Thatcher's government, recalls the BBC Micro, the Computers into Schools initiative, and the Digital Revolution.
The Rise of the Robots
Explores questions over what happens when robots learn to think for themselves.
The Life Scientific
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading computer scientists about their work in the field.
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
Computing-specific episodes from 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy.
Hyper Evolution: The Rise of the Robots
Explores questions over what happens when robots learn to think for themselves.
Secrets of Silicon Valley
Jamie Bartlett reveals how Silicon Valley's mission to connect the world is disrupting democracy.
Aleks in Wonderland: The Story of the Internet
Aleks Krotoski unravels the complexity of the internet, meeting the people who invented it, looking behind the myths.
Radio 4: The World at One (Item)
Computing-specific item from The World at One: The Meltdown and Spectre flaws in chips, that could allow hackers to steal data.