Telegraph

Get ready for the story of how the telegraph went from a long line of monks holding hands to a technology that straddled the earth. One which foreshadowed the internet in many strange ways, from online dating to fraud.Dallas’s guest is Tom Standage, author of The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers and deputy editor of The Economist magazine.With special thanks to Frances Grey for her wonderful acting.Edited by Stuart Beckwith, Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long