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Outriders

BBC Radio 5 Livewww.bbc.co.uk

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

Sounds and vision

This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about safer mobile conduct and what the future of music might be like.

May 22, 201225 min

Audio, aerial and political

This week Jamillah finds out about social media and politics in multiple countries, getting a podcast going and how drones might affect journalism.

May 08, 201226 min

Out and about.

This week Jamillah has been in Amsterdam learning about cows, startups and social business as well as returning to London to hang out with women in tech.

May 01, 201226 min

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

This week Jamillah learns about youth digital footprints and how to make her own repair manual while Chris Vallance chats to Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Apr 24, 201224 min

Hacking and one day on earth.

This week Jamillah and Rhod explore a hectic hack weekender, consider the world in one day and look at the evolution of online journalism.

Apr 17, 201224 min

An Amazing act of kindness

This week Jamillah and Rhod discover an amazing act of kindness, how to make a visual time machine and an upcoming event with electrifying sound.

Apr 10, 201223 min

Outdoors tech adventures!

This week Jamillah and Rhod consider a geography field trip and how they might plant a few sunflowers while Chris Vallance chooses his own adventure.

Apr 03, 201226 min

How to uncover a history online.

This week on Outriders Jamillah gets Flossie, Chris goes gallivanting for silicon and we find out how to uncover a history online.

Mar 20, 201223 min

A tiny, intelligent set up.

This week Jamillah finds out about the Tinies and their plans for domination, how people prefer to set up to do their thing and the kinds of games Angelina might play.

Mar 13, 201224 min

How to 'pin' friends and influence data.

Jamillah learns about working on Pinterest and about a couple of events sure to inspire those who are curious about open data or avatars and robots!

Mar 06, 201225 min

Cryptography, enemies and TV

Jamillah learns about a new open source cypto system and finds out what it takes to make both enemies and web TV - just not at the same time.

Feb 28, 201225 min

Face Forward

Jamillah and Giles find out about cyberwars, how to create a new network and the future of being human.

Feb 21, 201222 min

Paper's out, digital's in.

This week, Jamillah turns to paper from digital, assesses personality online and finds out about an extraordinary bus!

Feb 07, 201220 min

Sounds and Star Wars

Susannah Stevens reports from Birmingham where she finds out about musical innovation and Chris Vallance talks Star Wars, 15 seconds at a time.

Jan 31, 201225 min

Our internet and the law

This week Jamillah finds out the details behind the court case in India that involves Google and Facebook and chats with a casualty of the MegaUpload shutdown.

Jan 24, 201224 min

Teenage entrepreneur and games.

This week Jamillah gets a lesson from a 13 year old entrepreneur, sorts out her inbox and thinks very deeply about gaming.

Jan 18, 201222 min

Seafaring, hacking and creating worlds

This week Jamillah finds out what happened at Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, finds out how the Geek Boat would float and talks to a woman who can create a world of play for your phone.

Jan 03, 201225 min

Turing to Telecomix

This week Jamillah looks back over the year with Telecomix and ahead to the Alan Turing Centenary.

Dec 27, 201123 min

Creators

This week Jamillah chats with Twine creators who are helping to make our environments communicative, a man who can create clouds in a chamber and revisits One Hello World for some beautiful audio and music.

Dec 13, 201124 min

Search, robots and mathematical art

Jamillah learns how maths translates into hair accessories and what a search engine looks like from the inside. Meanwhile, Chris Vallance finds out more about our relationships with robotic friends.

Dec 06, 201125 min

LEO - Making history

Jamillah has been meeting the people who created business computing in the UK. Oddly, it's all related to tea.

Nov 29, 201126 min

Celebrating Engineering

Chris Vallance goes in search of prizes and Jamillah and Rhod discuss a slice of Raspberry Pi

Nov 22, 201123 min

R and D at the BBC

Jamillah chats to the BBC's controller of Research and Development about how geeky he is and what the future of broadcasting might look like.

Nov 15, 201122 min

Mozilla festival fun

This week Jamillah escaped from her broom cupboard and spent some time with the innovators and creators at the Mozilla Festival in London.

Nov 08, 201124 min

Lives remembered and mathematical music

This week Jamillah and Rhod talk about the lives of Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy and together they find out how beautiful and musical mathematics can be.

Nov 03, 201125 min

You, online

This week on Outriders Jamillah and Rhod learn about taking control of your data, remembering what you did online last year and quitting email for a day.

Oct 25, 201122 min

Transparently online

Jamillah and Rhod learn about getting online in the UK and Burma, how a new level of transparency could help banking and what is required for a good transmedia project.

Oct 18, 201126 min
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