Britain's Greatest Inventor: Clive Sinclair and the C5 (Part 3)

March 18
44 mins

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Episode 3: ⁠⁠

In the third episode of this series, Josh Widdicombe and comedian and friend Tom Craine discuss the unbelievable story of Britain's greatest inventor - Sir Clive Sinclair and his success (and failures) in shaping the landscape of technology and computers.

Coming up in this episode - the disastrous launch of the C5 and collapse of the computer industry leave Sinclair in a precarious position…

And rival Alan Sugar smells blood in the water and swoops in to exploit the opportunity…


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