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Media

I'm occasionally asked to talk about my work (but usually to talk about other, more remarkable people's work) on TV or radio:

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Talking head on Time Shift.

Horizon: What is One Degree? BBC, original tx BBC2, 10 January 2011. Featuring the comedian and nearly-doctoral physicist Ben Miller, this is a wide-ranging study of the meanings of one degree of temperature change. I appear in a sequence filmed at Elgood's Brewery in Wisbech, discussing James Joule's brewery background and the paddle-wheel experiment to determine the mechanical equivalent of heat (complete with Otto Sibum-style re-creation!)

Křížem krážem Cottonopolis. Radio Vltava, Czech Republic, July 2010. Czech-language series on Manchester past and present. Programme 5, "Věda" ("Science") is an interview with me (given in English, dubbed into Czech), with sections on John Dalton and the origins of the Manchester computers.

Time Shift: Hard Drive Heaven. BBC, original tx BBC4, 9 February 2004. Documentary on the rise of home computing in Britain.

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