Formats

The show is "multi-media" and so is produced in audio format as a radio/podcast, a blog with written content, a TV chat-show/vlog, and as a live stage event that invites audience participation and questions.

Themes

A central tag-line is "Cybersecurity for everyone".
We promote ideas in 'Civic Cyber Security', 'Digital Self-Defence' and 'Digital Rights'. Amongst our perennial themes are:

• Protection of Children Online
• Dependency and Addiction
• Privacy and Digital Dignity
• Civic Resilience
• Technology in Education
• Snooping CCTV & Surveillance State
• Women in Tech
• Workplace Conditions
• Tech in Entertainments
• Tech and the Environment
• Development of Artificial Intelligence

Values

The Cybershow values digital literacy and common rights. We support full digital choice and civic participation within the technological society through free open source software and intelligence for all citizens. We champion womens' and minority rights in tech, and oppose digital privilege, division and inequity in the age of Big Tech and 'surveillance capitalism'.

We value education, so try to make very complex ideas accessible to a wide audience, to provoke thoughtful and challenging reactions while avoiding doom and pessimism.

We value humane technology, intelligence amplification "IA" in place of artificial intelligence "AI", and peaceful innovation that empowers the varied and many, not just the incumbent few.

Features

In the pipeline are "In the Chair" interviews with prominent tech thinkers, analysis of parliamentary political bills, a "parents and kids" series that gives voice to the family, a "Cyber-Nanas" feature for issues affecting older generations, "Cybershow on the go" episodes which combine travel and health with technology talk, and deeper academic/philosophical shows that delve into computer science papers and hacker culture.

Talent

The show boasts a staggering diversity and density of talent with a team of writer-presenters who are not only practising hackers, teachers and cyber security experts, but come from earlier careers in media and entertainments.
Within the line up are a RAP and Sony award winning producer for BBC Radio 1 and the Bristol hip-hop scene, and front-woman of one of the most successful British tribute bands, who's toured playing hundreds of packed gigs around Europe. All of the team, are equally at home on stage, in the studio, behind the camera, mixing-desk, microphone, writing code or hacking in the server room.

Location

We are from the South of England, in the counties of Dorset and Hampshire. We and our families live, work and play in the cities around Southampton, Winchester, Bournemouth and Salisbury.
We like to get out, so many of our shows are filmed against the beaches and forests of this most beautiful part of the world.