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Last broadcast on Sat, 12 Sep 2009, 09:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by businesswoman Martha Lane Fox. With poetry from Matt Harvey.
STUDIO GUEST: MARTHA LANE FOX
Martha Lane Fox is the doyenne of the dot.com world and is the government's Digital Inclusion champion.
I WAS THERE: TROOPING THE COLOUR 1981
The Pattrick family; Katherine, John and Tim, recall the Trooping of the Colour ceremony of 13 June 1981.
HEAD INJURY: JADE BRACEY
Jade Bracey was hit by a car when she was 14 sustaining life threatening head injuries and had to have part of the frontal lobe of her brain removed.
THE MINI: DR ALEX MOULTON
INHERITANCE TRACKS: RORY MCGRATH
Comedian Rory McGrath chose the finale from Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake' and 'Eleanor Rigby' by the Beatles.
POET: MATT HARVEY
POEM: Alan Turing
here’s a toast to Alan Turing
born in harsher, darker times
who thought outside the container
and loved outside the lines
and so the code-breaker was broken
and we’re sorry
yes now the s-word has been spoken
the official conscience woken
– very carefully scripted but at least it’s not encrypted –
and the story does suggest
a part 2 to the Turing Test:
1. can machines behave like humans?
2. can we?
POEM: Cyberspace-silicone-internet-satellite almost-too-inclusive digital rap
Bit bit bit bit Byte, Byte
Kilobyte, kilobyte, Bit byte kilobyte
Kilobyte megabyte, gigabyte gigabyte
Bit byte kilobyte megabyte gigabyte
Bit byte kilobyte megabyte gigabyte
Gigabyte biggerbite, biggerbite burgerking
Tuck in burgerking, bloodybig appetite, burgerking gigabyte
Bigmac megadeal, killerbug killerbyte
Lullaby night night (lullaby night night)
Glitterbug gigabyte, glitterball disco
Dancefloor set-alight, satellite, satellite
Cellulite, celibate, salivate, sell-by date
Corduroy trousers, purple tank-top (twit twit twit twit)
Internet interface, wintercoat cyberspace
Megaphone, megabyte, internet silicone
Digital silicone, digital silicone
Silicon Valley, pelican crossing
Silicone crossing, chilli con carne
Pelican valley, garlic dressing (tweet tweet tweet tweet)
Vitamin vegemite superglue araldite
Erudite ammonite Eminem Acker Bilk (dot dash dosh com)
Technophile technophobe, techno notice
Dolomite dollar-bill, Dynarod dynamite
Dial-it-up get it right, digital kilobyte
Get it right get it right
Megabyte gigabyte kilobyte alibi
Gigabyte megabyte kilobyte byte
bit bit bit bit
bit byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte
night night
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Sat 12 Sep 200909:00
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