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27:49My old BBC Micro system
70K views • 9 years ago
mikeselectricstuff
Mike of mikeselectricstuff shows his heavily modified old BBC Micro system in a 28-minute tour of 8-bit hardware archaeology.
49:31Black Wednesday (BBC 1997)
1.1M views • 13 years ago
batrachious
A 1997 BBC documentary on Black Wednesday in 1992, when sterling was forced out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism. It covers the crisis from the British government side, including George Soros's trade and political mistakes.
55:43Ben Marking's Fake BBC Nuclear Attack Broadcast (Full Resolution, Uncut, Unedited)
108K views • 5 years ago
Tooth
A 56-minute fake BBC nuclear attack news broadcast originally made by Ben Marking, re-uploaded in full resolution. It is a fictional breaking-news special depicting nuclear war, and the uploader states it is not real.
39:23BBC How They Dug the Victoria Line
1.1M views • 12 years ago
Graham W
A 39-minute BBC documentary, built from earlier British Transport Films footage, on how the London Underground's Victoria Line was dug in the 1960s.
49:05The Three Rocketeers-2012:BBC-Future of Space trav
152K views • 14 years ago
FirstSecondThoughts
A BBC Four documentary following Alan Bond and Reaction Engines as they pursue the Skylon spaceplane and its SABRE engine. It covers the history from HOTOL and the heat-exchanger breakthrough.
25:23The Computer Programme (1): It's Happening Now (Introduction to Computing)
84K views • 14 years ago
Jesús Zafra (Lobogris)
The first episode of the BBC's 1982 television series The Computer Programme, introducing home computing to a general audience. It surveys mainframes, early personal computers such as the BBC Micro and Commodore PET, and the changing computer market of the time.
49:22James Burke Connections, Ep. 1 "The Trigger Effect"
764K views • 7 years ago
DRS_Education
The first episode of James Burke's 1978 BBC series Connections traces modern dependence on complex technological networks, starting with the 1965 New York blackout, and moves through ancient agriculture to Kuwait's oil-driven leap.
44:07Pandora's Box, E1: The Engineers' Plot
325K views • 14 years ago
nagualdesign
The first episode of Adam Curtis's 1992 BBC series Pandora's Box, on the engineers' plot, examining communism in the Soviet Union and the rise and limits of technocratic central planning.
29:361. How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand - 1 of 6 - “Flow”
115K views • 14 years ago
Stewart Brand
The first episode of Stewart Brand's 1997 BBC series based on his book How Buildings Learn, covering how buildings change after they are built. Brand presents and the series has music by Brian Eno.
30:18Noam Chomsky on Propaganda - The Big Idea - Interview with Andrew Marr
293K views • 14 years ago
k1mk1mk1m
A 1996 BBC interview in which Noam Chomsky explains his propaganda model of the media to Andrew Marr, including how filters shape what journalists report and the role of self-censorship.
49:22Douglas Adams - Hyperland
55K views • 12 years ago
UJ ObscureMedia
Hyperland is a 1990 BBC documentary written by and starring Douglas Adams, who tours an imagined future of hypertext and software agents. It features Ted Nelson among others.