World Wise Web by BBC World Service
BBC World Service
Teenagers from the around the world talk to the technology pioneers who have shaped their lives. Each episode is introduced by seventeen year old Anna Zanelli, a budding designer from London. Young people get the chance to ask leading innovators the questions they want answered. We find out about the inspiration behind some of the most important digital inventions, what their creators needed to do to make them a reality, and hear words of wisdom from brilliant minds.
Categories: Technology
Listen to the last episode:
Aerospace engineer Dr Anita Sengupta led the team that developed the supersonic parachute which helped land Nasa’s Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012. It’s still on the Red Planet today, and its main goal is to assess whether there is, or ever was, life on Mars. She tells 17-year-old astrophysics enthusiast Avantika, from India, how her love of space began when she watched a science-fiction show on TV.
Previous episodes
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13 - Nasa’s Curiosity rover parachuteFri, 27 Mar 2020
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12 - DronesFri, 20 Mar 2020
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11 - ProstheticsFri, 13 Mar 2020
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10 - Formula 1 simulatorFri, 06 Mar 2020
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9 - The mobile phoneFri, 28 Feb 2020
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8 - Internet networksFri, 21 Feb 2020
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7 - Computer animationFri, 14 Feb 2020
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6 - Google SearchFri, 07 Feb 2020
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5 - GPSFri, 31 Jan 2020
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4 - Lithium ion batteryFri, 24 Jan 2020
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3 - Socially assistive robotsFri, 17 Jan 2020
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2 - The iPodFri, 10 Jan 2020
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1 - The previewTue, 24 Dec 2019
