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World Service,15 Aug 2006,26 mins

The communications revolution

Discovery

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A look at the evolution of the radio. How modern infrastructure and the world wide web have brought us all closer together. It's a long way from Marconi's first Atlantic wireless transmission in December 1901. The programme looks at how mathematicians have been behind the breakthroughs made in 20th and 21st Century communications.

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