People Fixing the World Podcast
Brilliant solutions to the world鈥檚 problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work.
Episodes to download
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Africa's best new innovators
Tue 2 Jul 2024
Myra Anubi is in Nairobi at the final of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
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Making tourism work for everyone
Tue 25 Jun 2024
We look at a model of tourism designed to benefit local communities more fairly
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Saving water at a time of scarcity
Tue 18 Jun 2024
We look at solutions for conserving and reusing water.
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What to do with an empty mall?
Tue 11 Jun 2024
The US malls being brought back to life as schools, healthcare centres and offices.
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Solving Mexico City's water crisis
Tue 28 May 2024
We meet the scientists, activists and urban planners tackling the megacity's water woes.
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Living with climate change
Tue 21 May 2024
We go to El Salvador to look at projects tackling the effects of rising temperatures.
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The school run by kids
Tue 14 May 2024
The Thai school that鈥檚 proving a model for Thailand and beyond.
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Fighting sexism in society
Tue 7 May 2024
We look at how entrenched sexist attitudes towards women are being tackled
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Restoring California's underwater forests
Tue 30 Apr 2024
We look at projects helping protect and restore kelp along the coastline of California
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Kangaroo care for premature babies
Tue 23 Apr 2024
The simple skin-to-skin approach saving newborn lives
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How literacy can change a life
Tue 9 Apr 2024
How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read
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The power of music
Tue 2 Apr 2024
Innovative ways that music can ease pain and bring people together.
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Greener ways to feed the world
Tue 26 Mar 2024
How lab-brewed dairy and urban food forests can tackle climate change and hunger
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Magic mushrooms and mental health
Tue 19 Mar 2024
Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?
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Speaking up at work
Tue 12 Mar 2024
We look at how to raise concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace
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Clever ways to get kids learning
Tue 5 Mar 2024
We look at innovative educational solutions in Senegal, Ghana and Pakistan.
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Bringing dead languages back to life
Tue 27 Feb 2024
How do you revive a language with no living speakers?
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Making life easier for older people
Tue 20 Feb 2024
We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.
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Keeping the Amazon standing
Tue 30 Jan 2024
Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees
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Fake birds and other stories
Boxing Day 2023
This week a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023.
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Making landfill less awful
Tue 19 Dec 2023
The people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture
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The country tackling loneliness
Tue 12 Dec 2023
How the Netherlands is making a serious attempt to tackle something we can all feel
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Building a clinic to save a forest
Tue 5 Dec 2023
How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo
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The plastic eaters
Tue 28 Nov 2023
The hungry enzymes that might just be the solution to plastic pollution.
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Fighting period poverty
Tue 21 Nov 2023
How hand-stitched pads and a comic book are trying to make women鈥檚 lives better
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Sharing the river
Tue 14 Nov 2023
How two communities in Bolivia learned to work together to protect their water
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