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World Wise Web

Teenagers from around the world talk to technology pioneers who have shaped their lives.

World Service,15 episodes

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World Wise Web: Part two
Teenagers meet pioneering inventors, including the creator of the first mobile phone
19 Sep 2020,49 mins
World Wise Web: Part one
Teenagers meet pioneers whose inventions shaped our digital world
12 Sep 2020,49 mins
Nasa’s Curiosity rover parachute
The supersonic parachute which helped land Nasa’s Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012
28 Mar 2020,9 mins
Drones
How battery-powered aircraft deliver medical supplies in Rwanda and Ghana
21 Mar 2020,9 mins
Prosthetics
How a new generation of implants is changing the lives of amputees
14 Mar 2020,10 mins
Formula 1 simulator
How can you recreate the experience of driving a Formula 1 car?
07 Mar 2020,10 mins
The mobile phone
In 1973, Marty Cooper made the first public mobile phone call using his new cell phone
29 Feb 2020,9 mins
Internet networks
A teenager from the Philippines talks to "the mother of the internet"
22 Feb 2020,9 mins
Computer animation
How Pixar made films that changed cinema history
15 Feb 2020,9 mins
Google Search
The early days of one of the world's biggest companies
08 Feb 2020,9 mins
GPS
How Professor Bradford Parkinson and his team developed GPS
01 Feb 2020,10 mins
Lithium ion battery
How Professor John Goodenough's lithium ion battery kick-started the wireless revolution
25 Jan 2020,10 mins
Socially assistive robots
Robots that care - making technology that is a force for good
18 Jan 2020,9 mins
The iPod
In 2001, Apple’s iPod revolutionised how we listen to music
11 Jan 2020,9 mins
The preview
Who are the people designing our digital world? And how do they come up with their ideas?
24 Dec 2019,2 mins