Click: 2019
Season 20 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Click Season 19.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 20 Progress Shield
Best of 2018
Jan 5, 2019 · 30 min
Compilation show looking at the best of Click's travels on the road in 2018.
The Greatest Show
Jan 12, 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!
The Big Talk
Jan 19, 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?
Robo Retail
Jan 26, 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.
Tech Takin on Trumps Wall
Feb 2, 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.
Whatever the Weather
Feb 9, 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.
Storing Data in DNA
Feb 16, 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.
One Small Step
Feb 23, 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.
Everything Mobile
Mar 2, 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.
Gone in 6 seconds
Mar 9, 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.
Japan Special: Flames and Fire
Mar 16, 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.
Drone Wars
Mar 23, 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.
Policing Child Cybersex
Mar 30, 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.
Preventing Pollution
Apr 6, 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.
The Pope and the Robots
Apr 13, 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.
Bend It Like...
Apr 20, 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.
AI Criminal Record
Apr 27, 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.
5G Whizz
May 4, 2019 · 30 min
The future is 5G: from race tracks to connected cows. Plus a look at China’s leading role in the technology.
Facial Recognition
May 11, 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.
Rise of the Machines
May 18, 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.
GDPR One Year On
May 25, 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.
The Tech That Helped Maisy See Again
Jun 1, 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.
Behind the Wheel
Jun 8, 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.
No More Consoles
Jun 15, 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.
Tech Takedown
Jun 22, 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'.
999 Emergency Earth
Jun 29, 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.
Click 1,000: The Future of Television
Jul 6, 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.
1001 a Space Odyssey
Jul 13, 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 compan
Nasa Goes Big Brother
Jul 20, 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 Resea
The Self-Driving Revolution
Jul 27, 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
Future Food
Aug 3, 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.
Shutdown
Aug 10, 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.
Are E-Scooters Legal?
Aug 17, 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.
Out of this World
Sep 7, 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.
The Technology Powering Protest
Sep 14, 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.
Can Technology Solve the Opioid Crisis?
Sep 21, 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 ove
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Sep 28, 2019 · 30 min
Click tests all things audio this week, by paragliding, breaking glass, dancing in raves, and going to an Elton John concert.
Electric Cars
Oct 12, 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.
Has China Hacked Wikipedia?
Oct 5, 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 ani
19/10/2019
Oct 19, 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.
Happy 50th Birthday, Internet!
Oct 26, 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
Made in Taiwan
Nov 2, 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.
09/11/2019
Nov 9, 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?
Inside The Gig Economy
Nov 16, 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.
Death of the Console?
Nov 23, 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.
Blades of Glory
Nov 30, 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 enab
The Outrage Election
Dec 7, 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’.
China vs Silicon Valley
Dec 14, 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?
Clickmas Special
Dec 21, 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.
Click: Live
Dec 28, 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 th