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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Coconuts fixing the world
Tuesday
How coconut husks are being used to prevent plastic waste and protect forests
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A wheelchair that learns
Tue 12 Nov 2024
The wheelchair that uses AI and how clothes can help communicate feelings
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The race to save Madagascar's biodiversity
Tue 5 Nov 2024
How communities are fighting to protect forests and marine life
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The jails where they do things differently
Tue 29 Oct 2024
The prison in Philadelphia that's adopted a Scandinavian model of custody
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Fixing elections - for the better
Tue 22 Oct 2024
2024 has been a big year for elections. But how can we make sure people can vote safely?
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The pioneering TV news service
Tue 15 Oct 2024
We meet the reporters with learning difficulties who are holding power to account
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Keeping men healthy
Tue 8 Oct 2024
The barbers providing mental health support and the truckers getting help at the roadside
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Saving Britain's sea life
Tue 1 Oct 2024
We look at efforts being made to tackle the challenges of overfishing and climate change
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The power of native knowledge
Tue 24 Sep 2024
How communities in Peru and Niger are making the most of their own local knowledge
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Hopping aboard the hospital train
Tue 17 Sep 2024
How trains - and trucks - are taking healthcare into the communities that need it most.
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The medicines dropping from the sky
Tue 10 Sep 2024
The HIV drugs being delivered by drones in Kenya
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Our favourite climate solutions
Tue 20 Aug 2024
We join forces with fellow 成人快手 podcast The Climate Question for this special edition
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Greener ways to keep cool
Tue 30 Jul 2024
We look at how sport has a unique ability to change people's lives for the better
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Olympic-sized solutions
Tue 23 Jul 2024
We look at how sport has a unique ability to change people鈥檚 lives for the better.
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Protecting wildlife from human activity
Tue 16 Jul 2024
We look at projects to reduce the harm caused to wildlife by human behaviour
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Rethinking mental health
Tue 9 Jul 2024
We look at innovative ways to improve mental health care in the US and Denmark.
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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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People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
