The Final Edition
Jamillah, Chris and Rhod look back on 9 years of the segment that looked at how people innovate with technology. Look out for the next incarnation online!
Apr 29, 2014•26 min
Outriders
Outriders is BBC Radio 5 live's programme dedicated to exploring the frontiers of the web. It is broadcast on Tuesdays at 0300 in Up All Night.
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Episodes
The Internet's influence on art
This week Jamillah chats with author and curator Omar Kholeif about his new book collating essays by artists about the impact the Internet has had on the art world.
Apr 22, 2014•26 min
Heartbleed, the Radiophonic Workshop and word preserving robots
This week Outriders looks at the Heartbleed bug, veterans of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop talk about the prospect of performing live at Glastonbury and how robots are helping to preserve a trillion words.
Apr 15, 2014•24 min
Worlds of Sound
This week Jamillah Knowles finds out about the worlds of sound when we are online or immersed in gaming.
Apr 08, 2014•26 min
On the Map
Jamillah finds out more about mapping - as an artistic pursuit, in the way of neocartography and in Minecraft.
Apr 01, 2014•25 min
Dancing with machines
This week Jamillah and Rhod discover the ballet about Anonymous, how dancers can conduct music and how to knit your brainwaves.
Mar 25, 2014•26 min
Outriders and the Arts
This week Jamillah has been learning about how art has been inspired by Alan Turing, how we might be able to explore the Tate with robots and why arts organisations can do well with a digital presence.
Mar 18, 2014•25 min
Symbols and signs
This week Jamillah explores a new addition to Unicode, how emoticons show up in the brain and what it takes to create a clear symbol :)
Mar 11, 2014•26 min
Selfies, music and Venezuela
This week Jamillah finds out about self-monitoring citizen media in Venezuela, how 'Selfies' reflect our culture and why social media might not be the cure for the music business.
Feb 25, 2014•25 min
Outriders & the animals
This week Jamillah finds out how a fish can drive, what cats like to do with an iPad and how our environments could be changed to help working animals use technology.
Feb 19, 2014•25 min
New networking
This week Jamillah discusses open source hardware and software for lowering the costs of mobile networks with guests in Oaxaca, Moscow and West Yorkshire and then learns about a new browser looking to use peer to peer sharing as an alternative to the Web.
Feb 11, 2014•26 min
Tech that fits like a second skin
This week Jamillah explores the requirements of open data for culture hacking, how 3D printing is changing nail fashion and the metallic false eyelashes that can control your TV with a wink.
Feb 04, 2014•26 min
Comic books
This week Chris Vallance finds out about the Comic book expo at the British Library and chats with curator John Harris Dunning and comic legend Dave Gibbons. Meanwhile Jamillah explores digital comics with artist PJ Holden and the guys from Geek Syndicate.
Jan 28, 2014•26 min
New ways to read
This week Jamillah gets nosey around bookshelves, finds out about reading apps for kids and learns how to browse an Empathy Library.
Jan 21, 2014•26 min
Chaos in Hamburg
This week Chis Vallance has a chat with folks at the Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg and Jamillah learns more about wearable technology
Jan 07, 2014•26 min
Into 2014
This week Jamillah finds out about Moore's Law and if it will become obsolete in 2014. She also checks back with some of her past guests of 2013 to find out what their hopes are for the new year.
Dec 31, 2013•26 min
Security and safety
Jamillah's gone festive! New gadgets? Here's some security and safety tips, maths at Christmas and hacking xmas songs.
Dec 24, 2013•25 min
World of Warcraft terrorists
Chris Vallance steps in for Jamillah, and takes a sideways look at whether government spies are trying to find terrorists in the virtual "World of Warcraft" .... whether websites like "They Work for You" or "fixmystreet" get things changed....and whether radio waves can stop cars.
Dec 17, 2013•24 min
Food, Dinner & Ballet.
Jamillah finds out about Food Phreaking and Christmas dinner, DIY cell phones and choreographing a ballet in a virtual space.
Dec 10, 2013•26 min
Surveillance, Bitcoins and Raspberry Pi Radio
Chris Vallance chats with tech leaders outside a Chatham House meeting while Jamillah and Rhod learn about Bitcoin investment and hacking new radio to appear vintage.
Dec 03, 2013•26 min
Crypto, crosswords and tiny satellites
Jamillah explores space with the FUNcube1, learns how Crypto Party has become Crypto Fest and learning lessons about strong passwords with a crossword puzzle.
Nov 26, 2013•25 min
Toys, maths and digital women
Wireless ways to communicate with children, women in technology and...surprisingly perhaps....maths as a social activity.
Nov 19, 2013•25 min
Re-decentralization and tacos
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about re-decentralizing the web and why it's important as well as exploring what tacos have to do with a code repository.
Nov 12, 2013•25 min
Youth and emotional states
Jamillah and Rhod find out about engineering for teens, logic for the under tens and how you can change music with your emotions
Nov 05, 2013•25 min
Sound, vision and time out
This week Jamillah and Rhod discuss time out from the web, how hyperlapse videos are made and the new visual news discussion from Global Voices.
Oct 30, 2013•26 min
Ada Lovelace Day
This week Jamillah and Rhod learn about women in tech with Dr Martha Ladly and discuss TechMums with Dr Sue Black. Celebrate women in STEM!
Oct 15, 2013•26 min
Eyes, ears and robotic limbs
This week Jamillah and Rhod explore computational synesthesia, open source robotic prostheses and a phenomenal archive of London sounds.
Oct 08, 2013•24 min
Sounds like tech.
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about mobile tech for emergencies in Kenya, the sound of tech knitting and how policing online has evolved.
Oct 01, 2013•25 min
American phone phreaking
Jamillah chats with Phil Lapsley, author of 'Exploding the Phone' which looks at the history of phone phreaking - or hacking the phone system. Though the technology may not work anymore, the stories are lively and still influence technology culture today.
Sep 24, 2013•23 min
Women Pioneers of Computing
Chris Vallance visits a new museum gallery celebrating the women pioneers of computing. We also hear about exploring the moon, mars and asteroids as Outriders visits the European Planetary Science Congress.
Sep 17, 2013•25 min
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