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Welcome back. It's part two of the journey of Sir Clive Sinclair and his beloved C5.

Coming up in this episode, Clive launches the revolutionary Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer and he takes the world by storm.

Before breakfast every day, Sinclair runs six miles from his home in Cambridge, showing the kind of single-mindedness and stamina, which has also allowed him to keep ahead in the consumer electronics view.

His list of firsts is staggering, beginning with the first pocket calculator.

He followed this with a breakthrough in cheap digital watches.

Then he brought out his revolutionary 2-inch TV, the microvision.

And most recently, he's been marketing the first personal computer, the ZDX-80.

So last time we left Sir Clive Sinclair, he was kind of smarting from the BBC launching their own computer.

Yeah.

But he lost to Christopher Curry in that.

This was the time of the kind of guy who just makes a load of money from computers in Britain from the explosion. Yes. Can you think of the ultimate example of that? Because I think it'd be nice to start with a story of someone who didn't come up from an eventing, inventing. Well, Alan Sugar. Yeah. Lord of average. Lord of sugar. Absolutely. So he's a bit. Well, he's Alan to me because I wrote for him for a bit. Oh yeah, he did of course. So he's the anti-Ser Clive in a way in the sense of he's coming out of it from a much more of a interest in the deal side of it. So he was born in Hackney, East London. The youngest of four children bought up on a council estate. is deborzer Taylor, is mom worked at a local clothing factory.

This is a great origin story.

To get extra money for the family, Alan boiled beetroot for the local greengrocer.

Absolutely classic.

Winning the title of least sexy job in Britain.

It's just perfect for the self-made man biography, isn't it?

It's like you've gone on chat GPT and said,

Give me a funny job for someone who.

Yeah, who made millions.

Yeah, exactly, yeah.

He also scoured the streets with glass bottles

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