Made in the 80s…
DOCUMENTARY 10PM, C4, ALL 4 (BOX SET)
…The Decade That Shaped Our World. Following politics and culture, the final episode of this series focuses on the tech revolution. The industrial decline under Margaret Thatcher’s Britain saw coal replaced with computers. It was the microprocessor that held the key to the future, and Clive Sinclair and Acorn Computers emerged as the first UK start-ups. Britain’s youth needed a distraction from social unrest and found it in a new genre of music: electro-pop. Meanwhile, budding entrepreneurs programmed video games on home PCS and UK computer scientists developed the first piece in the puzzle for the worldwide web. ★★★ MC