Click — Season 20

Aired 5 January 2019 • 30 min

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

Aired 12 January 2019 • 30 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!

Aired 19 January 2019 • 30 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?

Aired 26 January 2019 • 30 min

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

Aired 2 February 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 9 February 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 16 February 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 23 February 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 2 March 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 9 March 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 16 March 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 23 March 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 30 March 2019 • 30 min

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

Aired 6 April 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 13 April 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 20 April 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 27 April 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 4 May 2019 • 30 min

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

Aired 11 May 2019 • 30 min

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

Aired 18 May 2019 • 30 min

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

Aired 25 May 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 1 June 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 8 June 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 15 June 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 22 June 2019 • 30 min

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

Aired 29 June 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 6 July 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 13 July 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 20 July 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 27 July 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 3 August 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 10 August 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 17 August 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 7 September 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 14 September 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 21 September 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 28 September 2019 • 30 min

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

Aired 12 October 2019 • 30 min

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

Aired 5 October 2019

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.

Aired 19 October 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 26 October 2019 • 30 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?

Aired 2 November 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 9 November 2019 • 30 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?

Aired 16 November 2019 • 30 min

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

Aired 23 November 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 30 November 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 7 December 2019 • 30 min

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

Aired 14 December 2019 • 30 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?

Aired 21 December 2019 • 30 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.

Aired 28 December 2019 • 30 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.