http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b068xwm7

30 minute BBC Radio4 programme

Topics include, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, old UK computers
and more

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This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd (QI) and his newest new=20
curator, comedian Sarah Millican welcome:

- Matt Parker, who left Australia to teach maths in the UK before joining=20
the Festival of the Spoken Nerd comedy group. He is a regular on Radio 4's=
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The Infinite Monkey Cage, presents the Discovery Channel's You Have Been=20
Warned and has shown off his Rubik's Cube skills on CBBC's How to Be Epic a=
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Everything. His latest book Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension=20
explores such topics as the fairest way to cut a pizza and the most=20
efficient way to tie your shoelaces. Matt's favourite numbers are 496, 3,43=
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and 2,025.

- Eben Upton, who in 2006 conceived the idea of the Raspberry Pi, a=20
credit-card sized fully-programmable computer that went on sale in 2011 and=
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has since sold more than 5 million, becoming the fastest-selling British=20
personal computer in history. MIT has since named him one of the world's to=
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35 innovators under the age of 35 and he has been awarded the Royal Academy=
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of Engineering Silver Medal.

- Sydney Padua, a Canadian graphic novelist and animator and who has worked=
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on blockbuster movies such as The Illusionist, Clash of the Titans and John=
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Carter as well as teaching at the Animation Workshop in Denmark and at the=
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University of Middlesex. Most recently she has written and illustrated The=
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Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, a New York Times bestselling=
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graphic novel in which 19th century computer pioneers Ada Lovelace and=20
Charles Babbage build a vast mechanical computer - and use it to fight crim=
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for Queen Victoria.

This week, the Museum's Steering Committee discusses computers made with=20
dominoes, praises the mother of all computer programs and reveals that the=
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first computer bug was actually a moth.

The show was researched by Anne Miller and Stevyn Colgan of QI.

The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin and was a BBC Radio=20
Comedy Production.



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