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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All episodes (77)
Outriders: Digital Vertigo
Tue, 29 May 12
Duration:
25 minsThis week Jamillah talks to writer and broadcaster Andrew Keen about his new book 'Digital Vertigo'.
22 May 12: Sounds and vision
Tue, 22 May 12
Duration:
25 minsThis week Jamillah and Rhod find out about safer mobile conduct and what the future of music might be like.
Outriders 15 May 12: Computers old and new and tech education
Tue, 15 May 12
Duration:
25 minsThis week Jamillah chats with Lee Felsenstein about his computers past and future and finds out about tech education in Liverpool.
Outriders 08 May 12: Audio, aerial and political
Tue, 8 May 12
Duration:
27 minsThis week Jamillah finds out about social media and politics in multiple countries, getting a podcast going and how drones might affect journalism.
Outriders: 01 May 12: Out and about.
Tue, 1 May 12
Duration:
26 minsThis 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.
Outriders: 24 Apr 12: Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Tue, 24 Apr 12
Duration:
25 minsThis week Jamillah learns about youth digital footprints and how to make her own repair manual while Chris Vallance chats to Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
17Apr12: hacking and one day on earth
Tue, 17 Apr 12
Duration:
25 minsThis week Jamillah and Rhod explore a hectic hack weekender, consider the world in one day and look at the evolution of online journalism.
Outriders: An Amazing act of kindness 10 Apr 12
Tue, 10 Apr 12
Duration:
24 minsThis week Jamillah and Rhod discover an amazing act of kindness, how to make a visual time machine and an upcoming event with electrifying sound.
Outriders - Outdoors tech adventures!
Tue, 3 Apr 12
Duration:
26 minsThis week Jamillah and Rhod consider a geography field trip and how they might plant a few sunflowers while Chris Vallance chooses his own adventure.
Outriders 27 Mar 12: Summits, science and podcast addiction
Tue, 27 Mar 12
Duration:
25 minsJamillah's been to the London Web Summit, discovered new ways to help science and found out about the habits of a podcast addict.
Outriders 20 Mar 12
Tue, 20 Mar 12
Duration:
24 minsThis week on Outriders Jamillah gets Flossie, Chris goes gallivanting for silicon and we find out how to uncover a history online.
Outriders 13 Mar 12: A tiny, intelligent set up.
Tue, 13 Mar 12
Duration:
24 minsThis 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.
Outriders 06 Mar 12
Tue, 6 Mar 12
Duration:
25 minsHow to 'pin' friends and influence data This week 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!
Outriders: Cryptography, enemies and TV
Tue, 28 Feb 12
Duration:
26 minsThis week 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.
Outriders 21 Feb 12: Face Forward
Tue, 21 Feb 12
Duration:
23 minsThis week Jamillah and Giles find out about cyberwars, how to create a new network and the future of being human.
Jamillah comes over all romantic.
Tue, 14 Feb 12
Duration:
26 minsSurveillance, web comedy and the history of the video tape. Jamillah comes over all romantic.
Outriders: paper's out, digital's in. 07 FEB 12
Tue, 7 Feb 12
Duration:
21 minsThis week, Jamillah turns to paper from digital, assesses personality online and finds out about an extraordinary bus!
Outriders 31 JAN 12: Sounds and Star Wars
Tue, 31 Jan 12
Duration:
25 minsSusannah Stevens reports from Birmingham where she finds out about musical innovation and Chris Vallance talks Star Wars, 15 seconds at a time.
Outriders 24 Jan 12: Our internet and the law
Tue, 24 Jan 12
Duration:
24 minsThis 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.
Outriders: Teenage entrepreneur and games. 18 JAN 2012
Wed, 18 Jan 12
Duration:
23 minsThis week Jamillah gets a lesson from a 13 year old entrepreneur, sorts out her inbox and thinks very deeply about gaming.
Outriders: Seafaring, hacking and creating worlds
Tue, 3 Jan 12
Duration:
25 minsThis 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.
Outriders: Seafaring, hacking and creating worlds
Tue, 3 Jan 12
Duration:
25 minsThis 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.
27 Dec 11: Turing to Telecomix
Tue, 27 Dec 11
Duration:
23 minsThis week Jamillah looks back over the year with Telecomix and ahead to the Alan Turing Centenary.
13 Dec 11: Creators
Tue, 13 Dec 11
Duration:
24 minsThis 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.
Outriders 6 Dec 11 : Search, robots and mathematical art
Tue, 6 Dec 11
Duration:
26 minsThis week 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.
Outriders 29 Nov 11: LEO - Making history
Tue, 29 Nov 11
Duration:
26 minsThis week, Jamillah has been meeting the people who created business computing in the UK. Oddly, it's all related to tea.
Outriders 22 Nov 11: Celebrating Engineering
Tue, 22 Nov 11
Duration:
23 minsThis week Chris Vallance goes in search of prizes and Jamillah and Rhod discuss a slice of Raspberry Pi.
Outriders 15 Nov 11: R and D at the BBC
Tue, 15 Nov 11
Duration:
23 minsJamillah chats to the BBC's controller of Research and Development about how geeky he is and what the future of broadcasting might look like.
Mozilla festival fun 08 NOV 11
Tue, 8 Nov 11
Duration:
25 minsThis week Jamillah escaped from her broom cupboard and spent some time with the innovators and creators at the Mozilla Festival in London.
01 Nov 11: Lives remembered and mathematical music
Thu, 3 Nov 11
Duration:
25 minsThis 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.
Outriders 25 Oct 11: You, online
Tue, 25 Oct 11
Duration:
23 minsThis 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.
Outriders 18 Oct 11: Transparently online
Tue, 18 Oct 11
Duration:
26 minsJamillah 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.
Pods 11 Oct 11: Arabic Bloggers Meeting
Tue, 11 Oct 11
Duration:
27 minsFor 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?
Outriders: Emotional, historical and creative 04 OCT 11
Tue, 4 Oct 11
Duration:
24 minsThis week Jamillah learns more about women in the hackspace, touch screens for autism and emotional baggage online while Chris Vallance explores Babbage!
Outriders - Linked to relaxation - 27 Sep 11
Tue, 27 Sep 11
Duration:
26 minsThis 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.
20 Sep 11: Friends electric!
Tue, 20 Sep 11
Duration:
26 minsChris Vallance looks at some early chatbots, finds out about objects that know their own history, and visits YouTube creator camp.
Pods:13 Sep 11: Protecting the vulnerable online
Tue, 13 Sep 11
Duration:
26 minsThis 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.
Pods 06 Sep 11: Tribute, tweeters and tournaments
Tue, 6 Sep 11
Duration:
18 minsThis 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.
30 AUG 11 Web Wanderings
Tue, 30 Aug 11
Duration:
24 minsJamillah takes us on our weekly web wanderings.
23 Aug 11 Ghost in the Wires
Tue, 23 Aug 11
Duration:
27 minsThis 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.
Barefoot with Becky Hogge 16 AUG 2011
Tue, 16 Aug 11
Duration:
26 minsThis week Jamillah talks to author and technologist Becky Hogge about her new book 'Barefoot into Cyberspace'
11 Aug 11. Jamillah goes long.
Thu, 11 Aug 11
Duration:
21 minsThis week Jamillah finds out finds out the best ways to listen to long bits of audio or watch long bits of video on the web.
02 Aug 11 Our Weekly Web Wanderings
Tue, 2 Aug 11
Duration:
26 minsThis 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.
27Jul11 Nom-nom-nom
Tue, 26 Jul 11
Duration:
25 minsThis week Jamillah and Rhod sate their appetites with web related food apps and innovative sites.
19 Jul 11 Looking at ourselves
Tue, 19 Jul 11
Duration:
23 minsThis week Jamillah takes a trip with the London Transport Museum and chats to Nathan Yau about his new book "Visualize This"
Outriders: Kids, code, robots and replicants 12 JUL 11
Tue, 12 Jul 11
Duration:
23 minsThis week Jamillah finds out about fabfi, learns about DefCon kids and how robots can be useful online as well as in the home.
05 JUL 11 Creative commons and cinematic tweets
Tue, 5 Jul 11
Duration:
25 minsThis 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.
28 June 11. Sights, Sounds and Locations
Tue, 28 Jun 11
Duration:
25 minsThis 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.
Pods:21June11 Liberté Sécurité Fidélité
Tue, 21 Jun 11
Duration:
26 minsThis week Jamillah learns about hacker meritocracy, working with a digital body guard and how to bring the past back with a few tweaks.
Pods 14 Jun 11: Robots and Comfort Zones.
Tue, 14 Jun 11
Duration:
24 minsThis week Jamillah talks to Frank Moss, former director of the MIT Media Lab about getting outside of your comfort zone and robots!
7June2011 Origins and change
Tue, 7 Jun 11
Duration:
26 minsThis week Jamillah learns about the reawakening of the origins of the internet, new ways to publish books and how headstones are innovative.
31May11: Crossing the digital boundaries
Tue, 31 May 11
Duration:
23 minsThis week Jamillah goes dumpster diving, learns about an amazing reconstruction and considers the social web in book form.
24 May 2011: Out and about
Tue, 24 May 11
Duration:
27 minsThis 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.
17 May 11: Outriders Nepal
Tue, 17 May 11
Duration:
26 minsThis 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.
The Internet of Elsewhere
Tue, 10 May 11
Duration:
47 minsThis week Jamillah chats with Cyrus Farivar, author of The Internet of Elsewhere. Can culture change the way people approach the web?
Hacking and Listening 3 May 2011
Tue, 3 May 11
Duration:
26 minsThis 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.
Robots and the arts 26 Apr 11
Tue, 26 Apr 11
Duration:
26 minsThis 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.
Why can't I quit you?
Tue, 19 Apr 11
Duration:
26 minsThis week 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.
Lines of communication 12 APR 11
Tue, 12 Apr 11
Duration:
23 minsThis 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.
Outriders: All your base are belong to us.
Tue, 5 Apr 11
Duration:
27 minsThis week 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.
29 Mar 11: Hacks, Sounds and Googlization
Tue, 29 Mar 11
Duration:
24 minsThis week Jamillah finds out where the tasty podcasts are, Ian McDonald hacks the government and we learn how to worry about Google.
OUTRIDERS: 22 MAR 11: South by South West-the final part
Tue, 22 Mar 11
Duration:
27 minsThis week is the final part of Jamillah's interviews at the South by South West conference in Austin, Texas.
South by Southwest conference, 15 Mar 11
Tue, 15 Mar 11
Duration:
24 minsThis 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.
Outriders 08 Mars 11: Girl-tech
Tue, 8 Mar 11
Duration:
23 minsThis week 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
Hacking: 22 FEB 11
Tue, 22 Feb 11
Duration:
21 minsThis 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.
Histories, stories and current tales
Tue, 15 Feb 11
Duration:
24 minsThis week Jamillah is joined by Andrew Back and Chris Vallance covering open source hardware, worlds created online, marathons and eating well.
Outriders and Egypt
Tue, 8 Feb 11
Duration:
25 minsThis week Jamillah talks telecommunications and translation with Rebecca MacKinnon, Brian Conley and Telecomix.
Mixed treats
Tue, 1 Feb 11
Duration:
26 minsThis week Mozilla on security, Make: Live, a safe haven for kids and researching the Wow raiders.
Outriders: Global web access 25 JAN 11
Tue, 25 Jan 11
Duration:
28 minsThis 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.
Evgeny Morozov special 18 JAN 11
Tue, 18 Jan 11
Duration:
24 minsThis 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.
Myspace and social media theatre 11 JAN 11
Tue, 11 Jan 11
Duration:
25 minsThis week's topics - Social media theatre, fuss about tablets, global advocacy and the state of Myspace.
OUTRIDERS: Outriders 2010 roundup! 31 DEC 10
Fri, 31 Dec 10
Duration:
51 minsHappy 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.
Hackers, seniors and advent advice
Tue, 21 Dec 10
Duration:
24 minsThis week 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.
Outriders: 14 Dec 2010 - Wikileaks so far and a little light mathematics
Tue, 14 Dec 10
Duration:
26 minsThis 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.
Outriders: Virtually assisted! 07-DEC-10
Tue, 7 Dec 10
Duration:
25 minsThis week on Outriders, 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?
Tue, 30 Nov 10
Duration:
24 minsHow 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.
Technological needs
Tue, 23 Nov 10
Duration:
24 minsThis week 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.
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- Outriders: Digital Vertigo
- 22 May 12: Sounds and vision
- Outriders 15 May 12: Computers old and new and tech education
- Outriders 08 May 12: Audio, aerial and political
- Outriders: 01 May 12: Out and about.
- Outriders: 24 Apr 12: Sir Tim Berners-Lee
- 17Apr12: hacking and one day on earth
- Outriders: An Amazing act of kindness 10 Apr 12
- Outriders - Outdoors tech adventures!
- Outriders 27 Mar 12: Summits, science and podcast addiction
- Outriders 20 Mar 12
- Outriders 13 Mar 12: A tiny, intelligent set up.
- Outriders 06 Mar 12
- Outriders: Cryptography, enemies and TV
- Outriders 21 Feb 12: Face Forward
- Jamillah comes over all romantic.
- Outriders: paper's out, digital's in. 07 FEB 12
- Outriders 31 JAN 12: Sounds and Star Wars
- Outriders 24 Jan 12: Our internet and the law
- Outriders: Teenage entrepreneur and games. 18 JAN 2012
- Outriders: Seafaring, hacking and creating worlds
- Outriders: Seafaring, hacking and creating worlds
- 27 Dec 11: Turing to Telecomix
- 13 Dec 11: Creators
- Outriders 6 Dec 11 : Search, robots and mathematical art
- Outriders 29 Nov 11: LEO - Making history
- Outriders 22 Nov 11: Celebrating Engineering
- Outriders 15 Nov 11: R and D at the BBC
- Mozilla festival fun 08 NOV 11
- 01 Nov 11: Lives remembered and mathematical music
- Outriders 25 Oct 11: You, online
- Outriders 18 Oct 11: Transparently online
- Pods 11 Oct 11: Arabic Bloggers Meeting
- Outriders: Emotional, historical and creative 04 OCT 11
- Outriders - Linked to relaxation - 27 Sep 11
- 20 Sep 11: Friends electric!
- Pods:13 Sep 11: Protecting the vulnerable online
- Pods 06 Sep 11: Tribute, tweeters and tournaments
- 30 AUG 11 Web Wanderings
- 23 Aug 11 Ghost in the Wires
- Barefoot with Becky Hogge 16 AUG 2011
- 11 Aug 11. Jamillah goes long.
- 02 Aug 11 Our Weekly Web Wanderings
- 27Jul11 Nom-nom-nom
- 19 Jul 11 Looking at ourselves
- Outriders: Kids, code, robots and replicants 12 JUL 11
- 05 JUL 11 Creative commons and cinematic tweets
- 28 June 11. Sights, Sounds and Locations
- Pods:21June11 Liberté Sécurité Fidélité
- Pods 14 Jun 11: Robots and Comfort Zones.
- 7June2011 Origins and change
- 31May11: Crossing the digital boundaries
- 24 May 2011: Out and about
- 17 May 11: Outriders Nepal
- The Internet of Elsewhere
- Hacking and Listening 3 May 2011
- Robots and the arts 26 Apr 11
- Why can't I quit you?
- Lines of communication 12 APR 11
- Outriders: All your base are belong to us.
- 29 Mar 11: Hacks, Sounds and Googlization
- OUTRIDERS: 22 MAR 11: South by South West-the final part
- South by Southwest conference, 15 Mar 11
- Outriders 08 Mars 11: Girl-tech
- Hacking: 22 FEB 11
- Histories, stories and current tales
- Outriders and Egypt
- Mixed treats
- Outriders: Global web access 25 JAN 11
- Evgeny Morozov special 18 JAN 11
- Myspace and social media theatre 11 JAN 11
- OUTRIDERS: Outriders 2010 roundup! 31 DEC 10
- Hackers, seniors and advent advice
- Outriders: 14 Dec 2010 - Wikileaks so far and a little light mathematics
- Outriders: Virtually assisted! 07-DEC-10
- How green is your computer?
- Technological needs
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