A new three-part series on BBC 4 will explore a technological world before hi-def, DVD and next generation gaming consoles – the 1970s, in other words.

Called Electric Dreams, the show will see the world of one ordinary British family turned upside-down as their home is "renovated" to the standard of a typical house in 1970 – the dawn of the digital age – and then fast-forwarded at the rate of a day per year through the technological revolution of the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties.

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