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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

Mixed treats

Jamillah and Rhod find out about an autonomous boat crossing the Atlantic, a shocking solution for social media indulgence and the Teletext Art Festival. Meanwhile, Chris Vallance tries Jeremy Bentham's pie.

Sep 03, 201325 min

Eye-Tech

This week Jamillah and Rhod explore technology for your face, asking why augmented and virtual reality are not already on everyone's nose, and if glasses can help us with digital privacy.

Aug 27, 201326 min

Code, science, terms and film

This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about long terms and conditions, scientific code review and the DEFCON hacker conference documentary.

Aug 20, 201324 min

Young Rewired State

This week Jamillah has been in Birmingham at the Young Rewired State Festival of Code where children under 16 probably have better coding skills than adults.

Aug 13, 201324 min

Outdoors

This week Jamillah finds out about the "Observe, Hack, Make camp" and how Slovenia's networks are spreading via mesh and optical means.

Aug 06, 201324 min

Biohacking and citizen science

Biohacking and citizen science are the focus this week. Jamillah explores biohacking as a hobby, skill and business. It's growing and there are many ideas about what biohacking means, whether it is for scientific discovery or artistic exploration.

Jul 23, 201325 min

No Internet?

This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about how to break the Internet and what could be provided as an alternative.

Jul 16, 201326 min

Creativity

Jamillah talks to the creator of electronics for people with disabilities so they can use games consoles, a guy who tells stories in 3d online, a couple of chaps who created music using camera sounds and the creator of Dr Puppet - a web based animation linked to the 50th anniversary of Dr Who.

Jul 09, 201326 min

Changes in news

Jamillah is joined by Emily Bell, Mathew Ingram, Kevin Anderson and Chris Vallance to discuss the latest changes in digital news.

Jun 25, 201326 min

Listening and more listening

This week Jamillah finds out more about the issues raised by Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks as well as learning about what a city can sound like.

Jun 18, 201330 min

Kids' activities in science and code

This week Jamillah finds out about kids' activities in science and code for after school and through the summer with Code Club, Young Rewired State and Night Science.

Jun 11, 201323 min

News, satire and mathematics.

This week Jamillah finds about news and satire site UsVsTh3m and then gets mathemagical with some maths in museums, film and literature. Algebraic!

Jun 04, 201326 min

Sources, Digital Publishing & Social Media

This week, Jamillah discusses The importance of protecting sources in journalism, the state of digital publishing and how established authors are using twitter.

May 28, 201325 min

Heists, worms and cryptoparties

This week Jamillah finds out how to make a worm with computers, what happened in the latest ATM hack and why there ain't no party like a cryptoparty.

May 14, 201326 min

Hacker movies and phones for the blind

A chat with one of the eclectic method producers who put together a mix about hackers in movies. And talking with the designer of a phone app for blind people.

Apr 30, 201325 min

Brain Mapping

This week Jamillah Knowles looks into research about brain mapping and finds out about electrical engineering and some of its hazards.

Apr 23, 201326 min

Douglas Rushkoff

This week Jamillah and Rhod find out what 'Present Shock' is from author and commentator Douglas Rushkoff.

Apr 02, 201326 min

Evgeny Morozov

This week, Jamillah and Chris Vallance chat with Evgeny Morozov about his new book 'To Save Everything, Click Here'.

Mar 26, 201325 min

Robots on Tour

This week Jamillah returns from the Robots on Tour event in Zurich with a host of new robotic friends and their experts.

Mar 12, 201325 min

Cards, Rights and social networks

This week Jamillah and Rhod find out why ISPs have to block certain websites, why social networks decline and how to find the best coding language.

Mar 05, 201324 min

The future of business cards.

This week Jamillah learns about the future of business cards, how the law needs to change for 3D printing and why science is funny

Feb 19, 201325 min

Drones and Learning

Jamillah joins Rhod to tell us about a computer gaming project exploring the ethics of drone warfare, plus online learning in a school in Lesotho.

Feb 05, 201326 min

The Pirate Bay and DDOS actions

This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about the wider impact of Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDOS) and filmmaker Simon Klose tells us about his upcoming documentary about The Pirate Bay.

Jan 29, 201326 min

Outriders Longform, retro and divided

This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about the Longform podcast, retro gaming culture online and a new documentary about the digital divide.

Jan 22, 201324 min

Nights Owls and Rebuilds

This week Jamillah and Rhod find out how to survive CES, how to re-create computer history and why programmers work at night.

Jan 15, 201325 min
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