<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Internet History is a fascinating topic, and one learns something new with every approach, so looking forward to this. Each episode is just 30 mins, and will be available on demand for 30 days subsequent to broadcast.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></div><br><br><u></u>
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joly posted: "On Wednesday August 16 2017 at 08:00 UTC (repeated at 20:30 UTC) BBC Radio 4 will broadcast the first of a 4 part-series Aleks in Wonderland: The Story of the Internet.
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In this series Aleks Krotoski unravels the complexity of the inte" </span>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090y9zt" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="m_-5413288233859549183size-full m_-5413288233859549183wp-image-9335" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/bbc-radio4-logo.jpg" alt="BBC " style="max-width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:12px;clear:both;float:right;margin-left:1em;padding:4px;background-color:white;border:1px solid #ccc"></a>On <strong>Wednesday August 16 2017</strong> at <strong>08:00 UTC</strong> (repeated at <strong>20:30 UTC</strong>) <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4" target="_blank"><b>BBC Radio 4</b></a> will broadcast the first of a 4 part-series <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09254ll/episodes" target="_blank">Aleks in Wonderland: The Story of the Internet</a></strong>.</p>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em">In this series Aleks Krotoski unravels the complexity of the internet, meeting the people who really invented it, looking behind the myths and cultural constructs to explain what it actually is and how it came to exist outside of conventional regulation.<br>
We'll ask whether the nature of the net itself really is cause for concern - and if so what can be done to reign in the negatives of the internet without restricting the positives?</p>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em">This first episode is entitled '<strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b090y9zt" target="_blank">The International League of Geeky Gentlemen</a></strong>".</p></div>
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