2019
50 episodes · Jan 5, 2019
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S20E1Best of 2018
Jan 5, 201930mCompilation show looking at the best of Click's travels on the road in 2018.
S20E2The Greatest Show
Jan 12, 201930m20 gadgets in 19 minutes! That's the challenge the team set themselves to cover at CES - the world's largest technology show. Watch to see how they got on!
S20E3The Big Talk
Jan 19, 201930mYour user-friendly guide to the latest technology news, issues, gadgets and apps. The future of voice assistants - can your digital assistant tell if you are ill?
S20E4Robo Retail
Jan 26, 201930mClick gets a look at Amazon's robotic future. From checkout-free grocery stores to vests that protect warehouse workers from autonomous robots.
S20E5Tech Takin on Trumps Wall
Feb 2, 201930mA look at how tech could be the answer to Trump's border wall, plus the team get rare access to Microsoft's Washington HQ.
S20E6Whatever the Weather
Feb 9, 201930mClick goes to the world's largest weather centre in Japan. Lara gives her best Spice Girls act. And we look at how virtual reality is helping injured children.
S20E7Storing Data in DNA
Feb 16, 201930mA comprehensive guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. A look at how the future of data storage might be within us all - our DNA.
S20E8One Small Step
Feb 23, 201930mClick looks at foldable mobile phones and the exosuit helping disabled people to walk. Plus the social media content creators getting together at Vidcon.
S20E9Everything Mobile
Mar 2, 201930mClick visits the world's biggest smartphone show, Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona to see all the latest launches and developments in mobile tech.
S20E10Gone in 6 seconds
Mar 9, 201930mClick reveals how some popular third-party alarms have made cars easier to steal. Plus how tech can help with rugby injuries and a preview of action game Days Gone.
S20E11Japan Special: Flames and Fire
Mar 16, 201930mClick travels to Japan to see how they're preparing technologically for next year's Olympics with new AI-powered facial recognition technology being deployed across the event.
S20E12Drone Wars
Mar 23, 201930mClick looks at the latest anti-drone tech from the Netherlands, Google’s move into online gaming, and making coding accessible for children with vision impairment.
S20E13Policing Child Cybersex
Mar 30, 201930mClick investigates the sexual exploitation of children on encrypted messaging apps in the Philippines, and the undercover bot trying to catch the perpetrators.
S20E14Preventing Pollution
Apr 6, 201930mClick looks at the tech that could help to keep our air clean. And we ask how vulnerable our infrastructure is to cyber-attack.
S20E15The Pope and the Robots
Apr 13, 201930mClick is at the Vatican as the Pope hosts a workshop on robot ethics. Plus visits to a digital Van Gogh show in Paris and the London Games Festival.
S20E16Bend It Like...
Apr 20, 201930mClick looks at how social media is being used in the Indian elections, AI techniques being applied to art, and artificial shooting stars becoming a reality.
S20E17AI Criminal Record
Apr 27, 201930mClick explores an AI algorithm helping expunge previous convictions for carrying marijuana in California. Plus we visit the teams from Japan racing to the moon.
S20E185G Whizz
May 4, 201930mThe future is 5G: from race tracks to connected cows. Plus a look at China’s leading role in the technology.
S20E19Facial Recognition
May 11, 201930mPolice deployment of facial recognition is happening across the globe. But the tech is fraught with issues such as civil liberties. Click investigates.
S20E20Rise of the Machines
May 18, 201930mPolice deployment of facial recognition is happening across the globe. But the tech is fraught with issues such as civil liberties. Click investigates.
S20E21GDPR One Year On
May 25, 201930mA year on from launch, Click looks at the impact of GDPR, and how getting access to your data may still not be as easy as you think.
S20E22The Tech That Helped Maisy See Again
Jun 1, 201930mClick is at Hay Festival with its latest live show – where a blind woman uses tech to see for the first time in years.
S20E23Behind the Wheel
Jun 8, 201930mClick gets in the driver’s seat in this in-depth look at the tech behind Formula E. Plus a look at how ransomware has brought a city to a standstill.
S20E24No More Consoles
Jun 15, 201930mClick travels to Los Angeles for E3 - the biggest gaming convention in the world - to check out the latest games and find out what might be next.
S20E25Tech Takedown
Jun 22, 201930mClick visits Toronto's new 'smart' neighbourhood. However, some residents aren't so happy about living in the new age of 'surveillance capitalism'.
S20E26999 Emergency Earth
Jun 29, 201930mClick is in Arizona finding out how 'artificial trees' are being developed to suck carbon out of the air. Plus, drones that follow ships to 'sniff' emissions.
S20E27Click 1,000: The Future of Television
Jul 6, 201930mThis is the 1,000th episode of Click - so we’ve created a special show that gives you complete control over what you watch. Check it out at bbc.co.uk/click1000.
S20E281001 a Space Odyssey
Jul 13, 201930mTo celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Click lifts off with technology which takes us back to the moon as well as a little closer to earth - from the private companies that are building their own spaceships, to NASA's own efforts to return to the lunar surface. The team looks at future methods of space travel and also debunks the myriad conspiracy theories that have sprung up around the landing, using science to prove that astronauts landed on the Moon. And they find out why scientists are 3D printing geologically accurate moon rocks on terra firma and how they will help future space exploration.
S20E29Nasa Goes Big Brother
Jul 20, 201930mClick gets rare access into Nasa HQ to take a look at the research and engineering that is going to make space exploration possible. For the first time, the Human Exploration Research division opens its doors to give an insight into a specially designed habitat that locks up four astronauts for a 45-day fake mission, studying human behaviour in isolation, confinement, and stressful exploration scenarios. Click also gets to test drive space exploration vehicles on specially designed Mars terrain, gets up close and personal with humanoid space robots and interviews the head of Nasa mission control.
S20E30The Self-Driving Revolution
Jul 27, 201930mClick is in Arizona, self-driving car capital of the world. We dive deep in to the technology to see how it works and how sometimes it fails with tragic consequences. We also meet the people whose livelihoods are affected by the technology.
S20E31Future Food
Aug 3, 201930mClick looks at the tech producing food with less environmental impact and at how 5G is helping salmon farms in the Orkney Islands. Plus a taste of new laboratory grown foods.
S20E32Shutdown
Aug 10, 201930mClick reports on the internet shutdowns in Kashmir, on Israel's new car scanner, and the remaking of Disney's Lion King. Includes tech news.
S20E33Are E-Scooters Legal?
Aug 17, 201930mClick goes on patrol with the Met's scooter enforcement division and hears from transport law-makers about what to do about new categories of electric personal vehicles.
S20E34Out of this World
Sep 7, 201930mClick travels to Spaceport USA in New Mexico to speak to the team behind Virgin Galactic and learn more about their plans to put tourists into space.
S20E35The Technology Powering Protest
Sep 14, 201930mDanny Vincent looks at how technology is used by protesters in Hong Kong. Click also investigates if tech can make the fashion industry more sustainable.
S20E36Can Technology Solve the Opioid Crisis?
Sep 21, 201930mTechnology companies have been accused of facilitating the illicit sale of drugs online, but are they really to blame? Seventy thousand Americans are dying each year from drug overdoses. Two-thirds are the result of opioid addiction. Technology companies have been accused of helping facilitate the illicit sale of drugs online, but are they really to blame? Warning: This programme contains people affected by drug abuse.
S20E37Breaking the Sound Barrier
Sep 28, 201930mClick tests all things audio this week, by paragliding, breaking glass, dancing in raves, and going to an Elton John concert.
S20E38Electric Cars
Oct 12, 201930mAre electric cars a credible replacement for petrol or diesel vehicles? We compare performance, range, cost, practicality and charging of the cars.
S20E39Has China Hacked Wikipedia?
Oct 5, 2019Click investigates the possible state manipulation of Wikipedia, speaks to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and heads to Dreamworks to speak to the people behind a truly Abominable animation.
S20E4019/10/2019
Oct 19, 201930mWe visit a children's hospital using a new low-cost portable ultrasound scanner and see the latest gadgets from Japan's CEATEC expo.
S20E41Happy 50th Birthday, Internet!
Oct 26, 201930mOn Click we see the 50th anniversary of the internet. To celebrate we talk to its creator, Vint Cerf to get his views on what his creation has become and where it's headed. Plus as the internet disrupts democracy the world over, could it also provide a new way to govern?
S20E42Made in Taiwan
Nov 2, 201930mClick heads to Taiwan to find out what 'Made in Taiwan' really means in the 21st century, from healthcare artificial intelligence to solving the pollution crisis.
S20E4309/11/2019
Nov 9, 201930mClick investigates whether 5G networks could damage our health as some fear, and whether 5G might take our weather forecasting ability back to the 1980s?
S20E44Inside The Gig Economy
Nov 16, 201930mClick looks at Uber and the importance of data for workers in the gig economy. Plus deep fakes, not of humans but birds.
S20E45Death of the Console?
Nov 23, 201930mWill Google's entry into gaming mean the end of the console? Plus a British-designed hypercar and an artificial intelligence debate at Cambridge.
S20E46Blades of Glory
Nov 30, 201930mClick looks at the latest developments in accessibility technology for disabled people, including how prosthetic running blades are developed and manufactured, and smart homes enabling people with learning difficulties to live more independently.
S20E47The Outrage Election
Dec 7, 201930mClick takes a deep dive into the world of social media and the abuse MPs are suffering during this so-called ‘outrage election’.
S20E48China vs Silicon Valley
Dec 14, 201930mWe look at social media innovation coming out of China, and how that’s making Silicon Valley nervous. Are the global power-dynamics of the internet changing?
S20E49Clickmas Special
Dec 21, 201930mIt's the Clickmas Special! With bags of seasonal tech fun. Astronaut Tim Peake chats about the year in Space and we race one of the fastest ever e-cars.
S20E50Click: Live
Dec 28, 201930mThis year we come from V&A Dundee, where we hear about the region's pivotal role in video games, drink water from a pollution-sucking car and have a visit from Nasa, who show us the latest robots they have been developing and which will soon be exploring Mars.