LEO editor

Sunday Telegraph July 1st 2012 Christopher Middleton interviews Eric Schmidt as
part of the paper’s campaign to “Make Britain Count” and in his comment on the
interview repeats Eric Schmidt’s earlier notes on the role played by LEO in pioneering
business computing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/maths–reform/9288256/Make-Britain-Count-Google-head-Eric-Schmidt-supports-our-campaign.html

TV Channel 5 ran a series of programmes on Disappearing Britain. The third episode
in December 2006, entitled The BRITISH CUPPA WITH WENDY CRAIG, and
included a section on J. Lyons with its Corner Houses and Teashops. This included the
story of LEO including an interview with Frank Land. See also
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/824846?view=synopsis and watch on
http://www.ovguide.com/tv_episode/disappearing-britain-season-1-episode-3-the-britishcuppa-with-wendy-craig-536421

Broken links above but this link refers https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmItems/153808988

BBC Radio 4 commissioned a programme from Pennine Productions called Electronic
Brains which was broadcast on 30 October 2001. The programme was compiled by and
fronted by Mike Hally and one of the four episodes featured the story of LEO. See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/electronicbrains.shtml

BBC Radio 5/Live Tuesday, 29 November 2011. Short piece by Jammilah Knowles on
the pioneering LEO enterprise. LEO: Making history.
BBC – Outriders: LEO: Making history

Celebrating LEO, the world’s first business computer, Google Europe Blog,,
November 17, 2011
http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/celebrating-leo-worlds-first-business.html

ITV (LWT London area only ) is to show a series of 8 programmes called London
Home Movies on Sunday afternoons. The series will start on 9th November 2012 at 5.30.
Several members have contributed to the series and Trevor Hughes’s contribution is
included in the first programme.
References to LEO will appear in the programme devoted to Work which will appear
on Sunday November 30th at 5.30 pm.
Interviews with David Caminer and Peter Byford will be included with the LEO film
and it will include some footage of a home movie taken by Brian Eaton in the sixties, of
LEO 3 together with an interview with Brian

An episode of Revolutionaries, a co-production of the Computer History Museum
Silicon Valley and KQED television, Published on Jul 6, 2012 by Computer History.
The subject is the contribution to computing of Sir Maurice Wilkes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9DrKQ2isIk&list=UUHDr4RtxwA1KqKGwxgdK4Vg&index=5&feature=plcp

Live Chat NOW: LEO, the British computer that roared, 28th June 2013 (see
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/26/live_chat_leo/). Gavin Clarke, editor of The
Register and members of the audience interview Frank and Ralph Land online in real
time. The outcome is rather messy as questions and answers do not come out in a proper
sequence.

UK Computer Heritage
at Google HQ in London 1st July 2013 to celebrate UK contribution to Information and
Communications Technology. Featured the Video commissioned by Google for the 60th
anniversary of LEO held at the Science
Museum:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG7EqWtzeIhXjSD4SdfPx1WQICKZMVcP4

BBC Magazine. Broadcast August 1st 2013 BBC Radio 4 at 13.45 as part of a 10
episode series by Lucy Kellaway entitled Lucy Kellaway’s History of Office Life and
explores the changes brought about in the office by computers and this episode starts
with a brief review of the LEO story including a photo of LEO I.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23509153