The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR
The world’s largest collection of working historic computers, kept at England’s wartime code-cracking nerve centre of Bletchley Park, has thrown open its doors – virtually – so anyone anywhere can view it.
With but a click, you will be whisked away to a 3D render of the Buckinghamshire hoard, then zoomed down into the museum’s entrance lobby. From there, you can navigate the long white halls of computing history in Google StreetView style.
Following his TV success with Monty Python in the 1970s, Eric Idle’s first solo venture - predating ITV’s Rutland Weekend Television by a year - was his very own hour-long music and comedy shows for BBC Radio 1.
Ever the innovator, Idle’s Radio 5 pre-dated the real BBC network of that name by some 18 years!
Eric links his eclectic choice of music (from the Beach Boys to Joni Mitchell) with self-penned sketches, for which he provides all of the voices.
Sketches include: unusual ways to join the Radio 5 Club and the latest headlines from The World at Radio One.
A weatherman can’t quite manage to sign off his bulletin - plus a new panel game called Absolute Rubbish.
Producer: Clive Burrows
First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 medium wave and VHF in May 1973.
‘Get out of my office, you’re being a pest!’ Yes, son. Toymaker releases work-from-home-themed play sets
The eight-piece set includes a laptop with a fabric desktop so very important apps like a picture of bespectacled cat and a graph going upwards can be stuck to it; a wooden smartphone plastered with images of dogs in a conference call; a headset; and the all-important Starbucks-esque coffee cup.
Cat memes and virtual meetings with no functional audio – Fisher-Price has really hit the nail on the head in depicting the current world of work.
