Radio 4 covered BASIC in their 3/5 episode of 'Codes that Changed the World' https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pnvmh https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pnvmh

Radio 4 covered BASIC in their 3/5 episode of 'Codes that Changed the World' https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pnvmh https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pnvmh The episode does a good job of explaining that the language hit a sweet spot of easy to learn, and easy to implement on the limited hardware of early home computers.