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| Micro Live | |
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 Micro Live title card | |
| Presented by | Ian McNaught-Davis Lesley Judd Fred Harris Connor Freff Cochran |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes / 60 minutes 120 minutes (special) |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC 2 |
| Release | 2 October 1983 – 28 March 1987 |
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Micro Live is a BBC2 TV series that was produced by David Allen as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project, and followed on from earlier series such as The Computer Programme, Computers in Control, and Making the Most of the Micro. As the name implies, the series was broadcast live (so causing its own problems such as the infamous incident of the hacked email account).
The first programme was a one-off two-hour-long special, broadcast on Sunday 2 October 1983 as Making the Most of the Micro Live.[1] A second one-hour special was broadcast in the summer of 1984, during which it was announced that Micro Live would be back on BBC2 as a regular monthly one-hour series starting in October of that year. A second season of Micro Live launched in 1985 as a weekly half-hour programme and was followed by a third series of weekly half-hour shows in 1986. The series broadcast its last programme on 28 March 1987.
The scope of the programme was much wider than the preceding computer series and had a less formal feel due to its live nature. Not only did it cover more subject areas but it also featured more microcomputers instead of its main focus being the BBC Micro, however, the BBC Micro's replacement – the Acorn Archimedes – featured prominently in the final series. It regularly included stories from the United States and recorded various small but significant milestones, such as the first on-air transatlantic mobile phone call, made from Lesley Judd sitting in a Sinclair C5 outside Television Centre to Freff on the top of a New York skyscraper in a snowstorm.
- ^ This was the name as featured in the title sequence, with Live being drawn across its predecessor's original title text.