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2019

Season 20 • 2019

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Episodes

1. Best of 2018

Compilation show looking at the best of Click's travels on the road in 2018.

2019-01-0530 min

2. The Greatest Show

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!

2019-01-1230 min

3. The Big Talk

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?

2019-01-1930 min

4. Robo Retail

Click gets a look at Amazon's robotic future. From checkout-free grocery stores to vests that protect warehouse workers from autonomous robots.

2019-01-2630 min

5. Tech Takin on Trumps Wall

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.

2019-02-0230 min

6. Whatever the Weather

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.

2019-02-0930 min

7. Storing Data in DNA

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.

2019-02-1630 min

8. One Small Step

Click looks at foldable mobile phones and the exosuit helping disabled people to walk. Plus the social media content creators getting together at Vidcon.

2019-02-2330 min

9. Everything Mobile

Click visits the world's biggest smartphone show, Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona to see all the latest launches and developments in mobile tech.

2019-03-0230 min

10. Gone in 6 seconds

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.

2019-03-0930 min

11. Japan Special: Flames and Fire

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.

2019-03-1630 min

12. Drone Wars

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.

2019-03-2330 min

13. Policing Child Cybersex

Click investigates the sexual exploitation of children on encrypted messaging apps in the Philippines, and the undercover bot trying to catch the perpetrators.

2019-03-3030 min

14. Preventing Pollution

Click looks at the tech that could help to keep our air clean. And we ask how vulnerable our infrastructure is to cyber-attack.

2019-04-0630 min

15. The Pope and the Robots

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.

2019-04-1330 min

16. Bend It Like...

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.

2019-04-2030 min

17. AI Criminal Record

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.

2019-04-2730 min

18. 5G Whizz

The future is 5G: from race tracks to connected cows. Plus a look at China’s leading role in the technology.

2019-05-0430 min

19. Facial Recognition

Police deployment of facial recognition is happening across the globe. But the tech is fraught with issues such as civil liberties. Click investigates.

2019-05-1130 min

20. Rise of the Machines

Police deployment of facial recognition is happening across the globe. But the tech is fraught with issues such as civil liberties. Click investigates.

2019-05-1830 min

21. GDPR One Year On

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.

2019-05-2530 min

22. The Tech That Helped Maisy See Again

Click is at Hay Festival with its latest live show – where a blind woman uses tech to see for the first time in years.

2019-06-0130 min

23. Behind the Wheel

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.

2019-06-0830 min

24. No More Consoles

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.

2019-06-1530 min

25. Tech Takedown

Click visits Toronto's new 'smart' neighbourhood. However, some residents aren't so happy about living in the new age of 'surveillance capitalism'.

2019-06-2230 min

26. 999 Emergency Earth

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.

2019-06-2930 min

27. Click 1,000: The Future of Television

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.

2019-07-0630 min

28. 1001 a Space Odyssey

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.

2019-07-1330 min

29. Nasa Goes Big Brother

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.

2019-07-2030 min

30. The Self-Driving Revolution

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.

2019-07-2730 min

31. Future Food

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.

2019-08-0330 min

32. Shutdown

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.

2019-08-1030 min

33. Are E-Scooters Legal?

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.

2019-08-1730 min

34. Out of this World

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.

2019-09-0730 min

35. The Technology Powering Protest

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.

2019-09-1430 min

36. Can Technology Solve the Opioid Crisis?

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.

2019-09-2130 min

37. Breaking the Sound Barrier

Click tests all things audio this week, by paragliding, breaking glass, dancing in raves, and going to an Elton John concert.

2019-09-2830 min

38. Electric Cars

Are electric cars a credible replacement for petrol or diesel vehicles? We compare performance, range, cost, practicality and charging of the cars.

2019-10-1230 min

39. Has China Hacked Wikipedia?

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.

2019-10-05? min

40. 19/10/2019

We visit a children's hospital using a new low-cost portable ultrasound scanner and see the latest gadgets from Japan's CEATEC expo.

2019-10-1930 min

41. Happy 50th Birthday, Internet!

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?

2019-10-2630 min

42. Made in Taiwan

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.

2019-11-0230 min

43. 09/11/2019

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?

2019-11-0930 min

44. Inside The Gig Economy

Click looks at Uber and the importance of data for workers in the gig economy. Plus deep fakes, not of humans but birds.

2019-11-1630 min

45. Death of the Console?

Will Google's entry into gaming mean the end of the console? Plus a British-designed hypercar and an artificial intelligence debate at Cambridge.

2019-11-2330 min

46. Blades of Glory

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.

2019-11-3030 min

47. The Outrage Election

Click takes a deep dive into the world of social media and the abuse MPs are suffering during this so-called ‘outrage election’.

2019-12-0730 min

48. China vs Silicon Valley

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?

2019-12-1430 min

49. Clickmas Special

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.

2019-12-2130 min

50. Click: Live

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.

2019-12-2830 min