BBC Radio 4 has just produced an excellent series about the social effect of telecommunications. Hidden Histories of the Information Age, presented by Aleks Krotoski, was broadcast in the week that the Science Museum in London opened its new information age gallery, and all five of Aleks’s programmes — each just 14 minutes’ long — tie in with sections of the gallery.
All five programmes are available as mp3 podcasts, which you can download to your smartphone, computer or mp3 player. The main page is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/infoage
They will be available indefinitely, says the BBC. And they should be available from outside the UK.
There’s more about the new Science Museum gallery here: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/exhibitions/information_age.aspx
It was a pleasure to meet Elizabeth Pearcey, who so kindly paid for my copy of Mary Mills’ booklet on Lovell’s Wharf – and at last to meet Mary herself, who signed it. In return for her generosity, I would like to give Elizabeth a copy of my book of photographs, ‘Uncommon Ground’, which includes pictures of Greenwich including Lovell’s from Ballast Quay shot in 1998. So I ask a kind soul to pass this message to Elizabeth, from whom I need a postal address for despatch. Regards from Nicholas Sack – nicholassack@yahoo.co.uk