This week’s selection comes from Tom Lean, Project Interviewer for An Oral History of British Science. It has been 55 years since the commissioning of Atlas at the University of Manchester in 1962, one of the world’s very first supercomputers. Developed largely by the University of Manchester and Ferranti, the… read more
This week’s selection comes from Cheryl Tipp, Curator of Wildlife & Environmental Sounds. Have you ever wondered what a pond sounds like? Most of us will have spent some time dipping for tadpoles, watching insects glide across the surface or looking out for flashes of colour as fish move beneath… read more
This week’s selection comes from Cheryl Tipp, Curator of Wildlife and Environmental Sounds. Right about now, hundreds of thousands of birds will be en route to the UK, returning to wintering grounds that have provided their populations with food and shelter for millennia. The Wigeon is just one of the… read more
This week’s selection comes from Stephen Cleary, Lead Curator of Literary & Creative Recordings. It is now 10 years since the death of Norman Mailer, one of the best-known and most widely read US authors of the post-war period. This week’s recording features Mailer in discussion with Melvyn Bragg at… read more
This week’s selection comes from Tom Lean, Project Interviewer for An Oral History of British Science. On 8th November 1957, hundreds of British military and scientific personnel gathered at Christmas Island, a remote speck of land in the Pacific Ocean. They were there for Operation Grapple X, the first successful… read more