The return of the magazine series about computers and the digital world. Tonight, a report on a bitter legal dispute in the United States between the Church of Scientology and one of its former ministers; Benjamin Wolley builds a web page; and bizarre ideas for wearable computers. In the regular Hotlist spot, Blur drummer Dave Rowntree offers a guide to the best music available on the Internet.

The magazine series about computers and the digital world. Tonight, Benjamin Woolley enters the on-line fantasy worlds known as multi-user dungeons, or MUDs. Davey Winder investigates the future of the Internet, and asks whether a Utopian vision of its potential can survive commercialism, censorship and changes in government regulation.

Artist Toshio Iwai demonstrates his extraordinary machines, which combine state-of-the-art technology with the moving images of a century ago. The regular Hotlist spot goes to London's Kensal Green cemetery to visit the grave of Victorian scientist Charles Babbage , subject of a campaign by Science Museum curator Doran Swade. And author Kevin Kelly suggests some of the strangest sites to be found on the World Wide Web.

The magazine series about computers and the digital world. Tonight, Benjamin Woolley looks at interactive movies on CD-ROM where the player takes the lead role in the film and determines how the plot unfolds. Will these movies convert couch potatoes into hyperactive role players?

There's also a report on the race to find a secure way to transfer money digitally. Will these electronic currencies turn the Internet into an on-line economy and lead to financial anarchy? Plus science fiction writer Jeff Noon presents a film he has written for the programme that draws on the imagery in his books. And in Hotlist Paddy Ashdown, leader of the Liberal Democrats, investigates some of the political sites available on the World Wide Web.

The magazine series about computers and the digital world. Tonight, Benjamin Woolley hits the road with a laptop and modem to find out how much you can achieve when you're on the move. From the US, a special report on how computer icons and interfaces can be improved to make them feel more intuitive. And a look at computing in Bulgaria, where a software house is gearing up to beat the West in the multimedia market. Also, in the regular Hotlist spot, comedian and Fist of Fun star Richard Herring looks for laughs on the World Wide Web.

The magazine series about computers and the digital world. Benjamin Woolley asks whether software designed to entertain and educate can achieve both. There's a report on how intelligent software agents could change our lives, and on the economists who are using computer games to get a better view of how an economy develops.

The magazine series about computers and digital communications. This week, reporter Benjamin Woolley offers viewers the chance to take interactive control, via the World Wide Web, of a robot called Nero which has been placed in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London. After the programme, viewers who have Internet access will be able to control Nero and see live video pictures from Madame Tussaud's.

Nero is the forerunner of projects which will dispense with the importance of geography and provide a virtual presence in remote locations which are totally inhospitable to humans.

From the United States, there is a special report on how the homeless and unemployed of San Francisco are getting online. Plus, Canadian guru Michael Strangelove gives advice on how to be a successful advertiser on the Internet. And, in the regular Hotlist spot, a cyber celebrity travels to his favourite places on the World Wide Web.

This week, Benjamin Woolley looks at the options for shopping by computer. In the near future, customers will be able to log on to the Internet and send their designs for goods directly to manufacturers, which will respond to the specifications and return the finished articles. And on the World Wide Web, consumers will be able to access virtual shopping malls, where they can contact product developers directly and take part in auctions.

From the US, the programme reports on the bizarre experience of the associate editor of Time magazine, Joshua Quittner, and his wife and fellow journalist Michelle Slatalla, who wrote a book about hackers and then, within days of its publication, became the victims of hacking themselves.

Plus a look at how anonymous E-mail is helping desperate people to get in touch with the Samaritans; and in the regular Hotlist spot cyber celebrities visit their favourite places on the World Wide Web.

The final programme in the current series of the magazine show about computers and digital communications. Exploring how our ideas of community and national identity are being challenged by the Internet, Martin Jacques of the Independent travels both to Brussels and to Paddy Net on the World Wide Web. Plus, a report on how virtual worlds are far more imaginative, and far more fun, than the real world.

And regular presenter Benjamin Woolley introduces Virtual Reality Modelling Language, which promises to transform the look of the Internet as it brings to it the possibility of fully interactive three-dimensional environments. In the final Hotlist feature, Sadie Plant reflects on how, in the on-line world, you can choose to be whoever you want. And the programme pays tribute to its distinguished predecessor, the BBC TV series about computers, Micro Live.