Click (radio programme)

Click

Other names	Digital Planet, Go Digital
Genre	Technology
Running time	18 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC World Service
TV adaptations	Click (TV programme)
Hosted by	Gareth Mitchell Bill Thompson
Produced by	Cathy Edwards, Colin Grant
Recording studio	Broadcasting House
Air dates	since 2001 (as Go Digital)
Website	Radio programme website TV programme website
Podcast	Podcast

Click (previously known as Digital Planet and Go Digital) is a radio programme broadcast on the BBC World Service. A sister programme of the same name is broadcast on BBC News and BBC World News television.

The show is presented by Gareth Mitchell. Bill Thompson comments on items in the programme and discusses them with Gareth. The show, broadcast weekly, covers technology stories and news from around the world.

In Bill's absence, the role on commentor is taken by other including 'Ghislaine Boddington' and 'LJ Rich'

From 2001-2004, it was presented by Tracey Logan and during that time it was one of the BBC's few webcast programmes, with cameras providing a live feed.

The show was renamed Click on 29 March 2011 to make it easier to recognise its status as a sister programme of TV programme Click, which is broadcast on BBC News Channel and BBC World News. The show's running time was reduced from 28 minutes to 18 minutes. The first broadcast each week is also live, whereas previously it was recorded. The show is now around 27 minutes long.

Click covers a wide range of issues affecting technology. Often there are segments on technological solutions to problems facing charitable or humanitarian causes, with a speaker representing the cause being interviewed by Gareth Mitchell. One example is the segment on a screen saver which harnessed the power of idling home PCs to help perform complex mathematical calculations to help cure malaria.