This Is For Everyone

Drama of the Week

BBC

Drama, Fiction

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Entertaining drama from award-winning writer Matthew Broughton exploring probably the biggest turning point in recent history: the creation of the World Wide Web, and its impact on one family in the decades that follow.

In August 1991, the first website goes live. At exactly the same time, a baby is born...

Julie....Claudie Blakley Vic....Dana Haqjoo Young Lucy...Astrid le Fleming Lucy....Katie Redford Young Ben....Bertie Creswell Ben....Luke Nunn Narrator....Peter Marinker With the voices of Josh Bryant-Jones, Jessica Enemokwu, Laura Power, Maxim Reston.

Technical producers...Keith Graham, Andy Garratt, Peter Ringrose Production co-ordinator...Jonathan Powell

Written by Matthew Broughton Directed by Abigail le Fleming

A BBC Audio Production for BBC Radio 4

Extract from 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, BBC audio, © International Olympic Committee. Extracts of Sir Tim Berners-Lee from an interview with CNBC, and The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction, BBC

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
0:10.2	podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.
0:13.0	Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,
0:18.0	making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.
0:22.0	But you know I also know that comedy is really
0:24.4	subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer
0:29.6	from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you
0:36.2	fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.
0:41.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.
0:46.1	Welcome to Drama of the Week.
0:49.2	It's a very simple idea, a whole universe of information, all of mankind's knowledge,
1:01.0	everything, all of it in one place.
1:05.0	This is for everyone. Don't doubt we loved each other because we did. We really did. There were lots of positives during those years.
1:28.0	Sometimes things just happen between people. The problem wasn't only inside the marriage. The world was changing around us.
1:34.8	When the way you communicate evolves, relationships evolve. And we changed with it. We were both
1:40.1	only children. In some ways we were very similar, but there were differences
1:44.7	between us and the gaps widened. The world was polarizing. We had no idea
1:50.4	where it was all heading. It was complex. We still don't know where it ends. But we know where all this started. It began in the winter of 1990.
2:01.0	1990 people communicate via landline telephones, answer machines, postal mail, fax, and in face-to-face
2:11.8	meetings.
2:13.0	The Berlin Wall has fallen.
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