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In 1985, Rupert Goodwins became one of the world's first hackers. Together with a group of friends, he managed to expose the weakness in British Telecom's primitive online system, and get into HRH Prince Phillip's email account. Goodwins was 19 at the time, and in the court case that followed, he and his friends said that they were appalled with the fine that was handed down to them, suggesting they should be being employed by system operators to rebuild the one they hacked into, rather than being treated as criminals.

More than thirty years later, Goodwins continues to use his technological wizardry for good rather than evil, and now he and playwright and director Clare Duffy have coauthored The Big Data Show. The theatre show for young people tells the story of Goodwin's landmark hack in order to highlight how our data can be harvested without our knowledge, while reinforcing the importance of cyber safety for young people.