Episode 1: Best of 2018
2019-01-0530 min
Compilation show looking at the best of Click's travels on the road in 2018.
Season guide
Click Season 20 — Episodes and Where to Watch
50 episodes · first aired 2019-01-05
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Episode guide
Episode 2: The Greatest Show
2019-01-1230 min
20 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!
Episode 3: The Big Talk
2019-01-1930 min
Your 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?
Episode 4: Robo Retail
2019-01-2630 min
Click gets a look at Amazon's robotic future. From checkout-free grocery stores to vests that protect warehouse workers from autonomous robots.
Episode 5: Tech Takin on Trumps Wall
2019-02-0230 min
A look at how tech could be the answer to Trump's border wall, plus the team get rare access to Microsoft's Washington HQ.
Episode 6: Whatever the Weather
2019-02-0930 min
Click 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.
Episode 7: Storing Data in DNA
2019-02-1630 min
A 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.
Episode 8: One Small Step
2019-02-2330 min
Click looks at foldable mobile phones and the exosuit helping disabled people to walk. Plus the social media content creators getting together at Vidcon.
Episode 9: Everything Mobile
2019-03-0230 min
Click visits the world's biggest smartphone show, Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona to see all the latest launches and developments in mobile tech.
Episode 10: Gone in 6 seconds
2019-03-0930 min
Click 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.
Episode 11: Japan Special: Flames and Fire
2019-03-1630 min
Click 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.
Episode 12: Drone Wars
2019-03-2330 min
Click 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.
Episode 13: Policing Child Cybersex
2019-03-3030 min
Click investigates the sexual exploitation of children on encrypted messaging apps in the Philippines, and the undercover bot trying to catch the perpetrators.
Episode 14: Preventing Pollution
2019-04-0630 min
Click looks at the tech that could help to keep our air clean. And we ask how vulnerable our infrastructure is to cyber-attack.
Episode 15: The Pope and the Robots
2019-04-1330 min
Click 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.
Episode 16: Bend It Like...
2019-04-2030 min
Click 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.
Episode 17: AI Criminal Record
2019-04-2730 min
Click explores an AI algorithm helping expunge previous convictions for carrying marijuana in California. Plus we visit the teams from Japan racing to the moon.
Episode 18: 5G Whizz
2019-05-0430 min
The future is 5G: from race tracks to connected cows. Plus a look at China’s leading role in the technology.
Episode 19: Facial Recognition
2019-05-1130 min
Police deployment of facial recognition is happening across the globe. But the tech is fraught with issues such as civil liberties. Click investigates.
Episode 20: Rise of the Machines
2019-05-1830 min
Police deployment of facial recognition is happening across the globe. But the tech is fraught with issues such as civil liberties. Click investigates.
Episode 21: GDPR One Year On
2019-05-2530 min
A 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.
Episode 22: The Tech That Helped Maisy See Again
2019-06-0130 min
Click is at Hay Festival with its latest live show – where a blind woman uses tech to see for the first time in years.
Episode 23: Behind the Wheel
2019-06-0830 min
Click 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.
Episode 24: No More Consoles
2019-06-1530 min
Click 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.
Episode 25: Tech Takedown
2019-06-2230 min
Click visits Toronto's new 'smart' neighbourhood. However, some residents aren't so happy about living in the new age of 'surveillance capitalism'.
Episode 26: 999 Emergency Earth
2019-06-2930 min
Click 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.
Episode 27: Click 1,000: The Future of Television
2019-07-0630 min
This 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.
Episode 28: 1001 a Space Odyssey
2019-07-1330 min
To 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.
Episode 29: Nasa Goes Big Brother
2019-07-2030 min
Click 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.
Episode 30: The Self-Driving Revolution
2019-07-2730 min
Click 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.
Episode 31: Future Food
2019-08-0330 min
Click 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.
Episode 32: Shutdown
2019-08-1030 min
Click reports on the internet shutdowns in Kashmir, on Israel's new car scanner, and the remaking of Disney's Lion King. Includes tech news.
Episode 33: Are E-Scooters Legal?
2019-08-1730 min
Click 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.
Episode 34: Out of this World
2019-09-0730 min
Click 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.
Episode 35: The Technology Powering Protest
2019-09-1430 min
Danny Vincent looks at how technology is used by protesters in Hong Kong. Click also investigates if tech can make the fashion industry more sustainable.
Episode 36: Can Technology Solve the Opioid Crisis?
2019-09-2130 min
Technology 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.
Episode 37: Breaking the Sound Barrier
2019-09-2830 min
Click tests all things audio this week, by paragliding, breaking glass, dancing in raves, and going to an Elton John concert.
Episode 38: Electric Cars
2019-10-1230 min
Are electric cars a credible replacement for petrol or diesel vehicles? We compare performance, range, cost, practicality and charging of the cars.
Episode 39: Has China Hacked Wikipedia?
2019-10-05
Click 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.
Episode 40: 19/10/2019
2019-10-1930 min
We visit a children's hospital using a new low-cost portable ultrasound scanner and see the latest gadgets from Japan's CEATEC expo.
Episode 41: Happy 50th Birthday, Internet!
2019-10-2630 min
On 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?
Episode 42: Made in Taiwan
2019-11-0230 min
Click 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.
Episode 43: 09/11/2019
2019-11-0930 min
Click investigates whether 5G networks could damage our health as some fear, and whether 5G might take our weather forecasting ability back to the 1980s?
Episode 44: Inside The Gig Economy
2019-11-1630 min
Click looks at Uber and the importance of data for workers in the gig economy. Plus deep fakes, not of humans but birds.
Episode 45: Death of the Console?
2019-11-2330 min
Will Google's entry into gaming mean the end of the console? Plus a British-designed hypercar and an artificial intelligence debate at Cambridge.
Episode 46: Blades of Glory
2019-11-3030 min
Click 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.
Episode 47: The Outrage Election
2019-12-0730 min
Click takes a deep dive into the world of social media and the abuse MPs are suffering during this so-called ‘outrage election’.
Episode 48: China vs Silicon Valley
2019-12-1430 min
We 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?
Episode 49: Clickmas Special
2019-12-2130 min
It'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.
Episode 50: Click: Live
2019-12-2830 min
This 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.
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