Outriders: Recent Episodes
BBC Radio 5 live
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.
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!
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.
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.
This week Jamillah Knowles finds out about the worlds of sound when we are online or immersed in gaming.
Jamillah finds out more about mapping - as an artistic pursuit, in the way of neocartography and in Minecraft.
This week Jamillah and Rhod discover the ballet about Anonymous, how dancers can conduct music and how to knit your brainwaves.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This week Jamillah gets nosey around bookshelves, finds out about reading apps for kids and learns how to browse an Empathy Library.
This week Chis Vallance has a chat with folks at the Chaos Computer Congress in Hamburg and Jamillah learns more about wearable technology
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.
Jamillah's gone festive! New gadgets? Here's some security and safety tips, maths at Christmas and hacking xmas songs.
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.
Jamillah finds out about Food Phreaking and Christmas dinner, DIY cell phones and choreographing a ballet in a virtual space.
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.
Jamillah explores space with the FUNcube1, learns how Crypto Party has become Crypto Fest and learning lessons about strong passwords with a crossword puzzle.
Wireless ways to communicate with children, women in technology and...surprisingly perhaps....maths as a social activity.
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.
Jamillah and Rhod find out about engineering for teens, logic for the under tens and how you can change music with your emotions
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.
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!
This week Jamillah and Rhod explore computational synesthesia, open source robotic prostheses and a phenomenal archive of London sounds.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about long terms and conditions, scientific code review and the DEFCON hacker conference documentary.
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.
This week Jamillah finds out about the "Observe, Hack, Make camp" and how Slovenia's networks are spreading via mesh and optical means.
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.
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about how to break the Internet and what could be provided as an alternative.
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.
Jamillah is joined by Emily Bell, Mathew Ingram, Kevin Anderson and Chris Vallance to discuss the latest changes in digital news.
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.
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.
This week Jamillah finds about news and satire site UsVsTh3m and then gets mathemagical with some maths in museums, film and literature. Algebraic!
This week, Jamillah discusses The importance of protecting sources in journalism, the state of digital publishing and how established authors are using twitter.
This week Jamillah and Rhod learn about how the Open Data Institute is working, how Warp Records is planning an incubator and the problems with LGBQT gaming.
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.
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.
This week Jamillah Knowles looks into research about brain mapping and finds out about electrical engineering and some of its hazards.
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out what 'Present Shock' is from author and commentator Douglas Rushkoff.
This week, Jamillah and Chris Vallance chat with Evgeny Morozov about his new book 'To Save Everything, Click Here'.
Jamillah Knowles looks inside the bionics and robotics world to see how it can help medical advancements
This week Jamillah returns from the Robots on Tour event in Zurich with a host of new robotic friends and their experts.
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.
This week Jamillah talks with inventor and hackspace co-founder Mitch Altman about his work regarding Geeks and Depression.
This week Jamillah learns about the future of business cards, how the law needs to change for 3D printing and why science is funny
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.
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.
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about the Longform podcast, retro gaming culture online and a new documentary about the digital divide.
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out how to survive CES, how to re-create computer history and why programmers work at night.
This week Jamillah and Andy Crane learn about making mini musical tesla coils and how to learn about infosec through a card game. Plus some hopes for 2013 with Outriders listeners.
This week Jamillah chats with Matt Novak of Paleofuture and they find out about our past hopes for future technology and what some tecchies wanted for Christmas:
This week on Outriders, Jamillah looks back over a year of crazy memes and strange Internet habits with Rusty Blazenhoff of the Laughing Squid site.
This week Jamillah has been in Paris at 'LeWeb' exploring the Internet of Things with the experts.
This week Jamillah chats with author Nancy Reagin about her book on the historical influences that helped to shape the Star Wars movies.
This week Jamillah has been in Helsinki for the Slush conference, finding out about Nordic and Baltic tech.
Jamillah Knowles on how Wikipedia pages are made. Also, how to get girls more interested in engineering.
This week Jamillah finds out about data art and video while Chris Vallance explores some spam
This week Jamillah goes exploring at the Wired 2012 event and finds out what robots can do inside our bodies.
This week Jamillah talks to women in tech in Ireland and finds out some secrets of games design.
This week Jamillah talks to Kristian Benić, author of Geeks Behind the Iron Curtain about nerd life in former Yugoslavia.
This week Jamillah finds out about profiles online through psychological profiling and big data.
This week Jamillah learns more about robotics through funding, ethics, language and humanity.
Jamillah talks to author, Cole Stryker about his new book, Hacking the Future: Privacy, Identity and Anonymity on the Web.
In the latest edition of Outriders, Jamillah Knowles finds out about the Pirate Party, and talks to women entrepreneurs on the internet.
This week Chris Vallance learns from the youthful and beautiful at Young Rewired State and Jamillah finds out more about digital street photography.
This week Chris brings the virtual to the real world and Jamillah gets into the remix with Eclectic Method
This week Jamillah and Chris talk to artist Aram Bartholl and viral experts Eclectic Method.
This week Daniele Perito tells us about potential future security risks associated with devices which monitor our brain activity, Kayce Brown and Matt Conn talks GaymerCon, and Mark Cotton supplied us with a delightful sampling of the new Bletchley Park podcast.
The comedy of engineering, magic and technology with Paul Daniels and twitter tales in the back seat of a London taxi.
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about singing for customer service, debating the UK's tech future and building your own phone network.
This week Jamillah and guests look further afield than the Olympics and venture into the realms of Art.
This week Chris Vallance returns with a visit to the Science Museum and Jamillah finds out about robots in Ghana and God on your pocket rocket.
Jamillah talks with co-founder of Global Voices Rebecca MacKinnon, and Leila Nashawati who's a Spanish and Syrian human rights activist and teaches communications at Carlos the Third University in Madrid
This week Jamillah brings news from Kenya where she has been at the Global Voices Summit.
Outriders at LeWeb - This week Jamillah has been at the LeWeb conference in London. She chats with Andy about the attendees there and what the European tech climate is like.
Jamillah travels to Barcelona to meet the hackers at Sónar and experience the cutting edge of electronic music creation.
This week Jamillah finds out about Indian Internet issues, being your own radio station and how to find a restart party.
This week Jamillah returns from Moscow with news of the Internet there and explores Over the Air's hack event at Bletchley Park
This week Jamillah talks to writer and broadcaster Andrew Keen about his new book 'Digital Vertigo'.
This week Jamillah and Rhod find out about safer mobile conduct and what the future of music might be like.
This week Jamillah chats with Lee Felsenstein about his computers past and future and finds out about tech education in Liverpool.
This week Jamillah finds out about social media and politics in multiple countries, getting a podcast going and how drones might affect journalism.
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.
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.
This week Jamillah and Rhod explore a hectic hack weekender, consider the world in one day and look at the evolution of online journalism.
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.
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.
Jamillah's been to the London Web Summit, discovered new ways to help science and found out about the habits of a podcast addict.
This week on Outriders Jamillah gets Flossie, Chris goes gallivanting for silicon and we find out how to uncover a history online.
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.
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!
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.
Jamillah and Giles find out about cyberwars, how to create a new network and the future of being human.
Surveillance, web comedy and the history of the video tape. Jamillah comes over all romantic.
This week, Jamillah turns to paper from digital, assesses personality online and finds out about an extraordinary bus!
Susannah Stevens reports from Birmingham where she finds out about musical innovation and Chris Vallance talks Star Wars, 15 seconds at a time.
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.
This week Jamillah gets a lesson from a 13 year old entrepreneur, sorts out her inbox and thinks very deeply about gaming.
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.
This week Jamillah looks back over the year with Telecomix and ahead to the Alan Turing Centenary.
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.
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.
Jamillah has been meeting the people who created business computing in the UK. Oddly, it's all related to tea.
Chris Vallance goes in search of prizes and Jamillah and Rhod discuss a slice of Raspberry Pi
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.
This week Jamillah escaped from her broom cupboard and spent some time with the innovators and creators at the Mozilla Festival in London.
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.
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.
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.
For this week's edition, Jamillah has been talking to Arabic bloggers at a meeting in Tunis. What are the hopes for their societies online post revolution?
This week Jamillah learns more about women in the hackspace, touch screens for autism and emotional baggage online while Chris Vallance explores Babbage!
This week Jamillah and Rhod talk about digitally approaching the things we may to do relax and Chris Vallance returns to explore the DNA of books.
Chris Vallance looks at some early chatbots, finds out about objects that know their own history, and visits YouTube creator camp.
This week Jamillah and Chris Smith learn about human rights and bearing witness online as well as a walk on the darker side of digital activity.
This week Jamillah pays tribute to Tony Sale who has sadly passed away. She also finds a tweet portrait photographer and learns about how the USA is working with Russia to solve problems in code.
This week Jamillah gets talking to the man formerly known as the "Most wanted computer criminal". Kevin Mitnick is now a security expert and has finally been able to tell his side of the story. From phishing scams in the 70's to being a fugitive, all in this week's Outriders.
This week Jamillah talks to author and technologist Becky Hogge about her new book 'Barefoot into Cyberspace'
Jamillah finds out finds out the best ways to listen to long bits of audio or watch long bits of video on the web.
This week Jamillah finds out about fighting crime online in Russia, how to hot-house a web business and where you can find a social network, within another social network.
Jamillah and Rhod sate their appetites with web related food apps and innovative sites.
This week Jamillah takes a trip with the London Transport Museum and chats to Nathan Yau about his new book "Visualize This"
This week Jamillah finds out about fabfi, learns about DefCon kids and how robots can be useful online as well as in the home.
This week Jamillah catches up with Tan Siok Siok who has nearly completed her Twittamentary and celebrates ten years of Creative Commons by getting the basics down with Jane Park.
This week Jamillah talks geolocation with a Silicon Valley veteran, learns how to she could play music with her eyes and how kids are ruling the online airwaves.
Jamillah learns about hacker meritocracy, working with a digital body guard and how to bring the past back with a few tweaks.
This week Jamillah talks to Frank Moss, former director of the MIT Media Lab about getting outside of your comfort zone and robots!
Jamillah learns about the reawakening of the origins of the internet, new ways to publish books and how headstones are innovative.
Jamillah goes dumpster diving, learns about an amazing reconstruction and considers the social web in book form.
This week Jamillah learns about power and control, how Libyans are tailoring their message and where to find volunteering opportunities when you're young and mobile.
This week Jamillah has been making friends and talking tech in Nepal. From bloggers and Google tech users in Kathmandu to 3g from the top of Everest, find out a little more about how people interact with their gadgets.
Jamillah chats with Cyrus Farivar, author of The Internet of Elsewhere. Can culture change the way people approach the web?
This week Jamillah chats with the BBC Monitoring section that puts an ear to the world for news and Jon Jacob finds out about hacking in Holland.
This week Jamillah gets to chase up the latest on our friends electric and find out how collectors are sharing their work online whether a personal quirk or a great master.
Jamillah learns that she might be able to make her own laser saw and has a chat around the web about leaving a long-term relationship...with a social network.
This week Jamillah talks to an Ivorian making a difference for those in need of aid in Ivory Coast, a man who wants you to buy a satellite and a young man that takes on students at his school to teach them code.
Jamillah talks to Harold Goldberg who has written a book about 50 years of video gaming and how that has made an impact on popular culture.
This week Jamillah finds out where the tasty podcasts are, Ian McDonald hacks the government and we learn how to worry about Google.
This week is the final part of Jamillah's interviews at the South by South West conference in Austin, Texas.
This week Jamillah is at the South by Southwest conference in Austin Texas. Find out who she has been talking to and who else is in attendance at the festival that has been nicknamed Geek-Christmas.
Jamillah has an all female line up talking about the Turing Papers, giving voice to the homeless of NY and how best to look at our digital future
This week Jamillah turns to the murky world of computer hacking. Kevin Poulsen is no stranger to hacking and has a new book out called 'Kingpin'. He explains what it's all about.
Jamillah is joined by Andrew Back and Chris Vallance covering open source hardware, worlds created online, marathons and eating well.
Jamillah talks telecommunications and translation with Rebecca MacKinnon, Brian Conley and Telecomix.
Mozilla on security, Make: Live, a safe haven for kids and researching the Wow raiders.
This week Jamillah talks to her former editor who is currently exploring online activity in Ghana as well as learning about life a 100 mega bits per second in South Korea. Quite the contrast.
This week Jamillah and Chris Vallance talk to Evgeny Morozov, author of the Net Delusion: The Darker Side of Internet Freedom. Taking a look at foreign policy, protest organisation and authorities on the internet.
This week's topics - Social media theatre, fuss about tablets, global advocacy and the state of Myspace.
Happy New year to our Outriding listeners and guests. Jamillah takes a look back at a year online and the voices from the digital domain through 2010.
Jamillah talks to Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 about the word hacker and what it really means. Tony Page describes social networking for older folk and Josh Russell has an advent calendar full of digital anecdotes and tips.
This week Jamillah and Chris Vallance tease out the strands of the wikileaks story so far and chat with experts on the real meaning of cyber war and the future of leaked documents. Oh - and there's a great song about maths too.
Jamillah explores the text based world with a documentary maker, searches the voicemail inbox of the web and finds out more about the characters within her operating system.
How green is your computer and how can you find out? What's the secret of the Laughing Squid and how can you get across Britain for free? All these questions and more on this week's edition.
Jamillah chats to the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogue; Kevin Kelly about his new book, "What technology wants" and not a terminator robot in sight.