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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Training India鈥檚 Fake Doctors
Tue 31 Jul 2018
Can a controversial crash course in medicine help improve the healthcare system in India?
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Stopping Wildfires in Their Tracks
Tue 24 Jul 2018
Three projects that are limiting the impact of wildfires
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Generating Power from the Roads
Tue 17 Jul 2018
A highway in the US is being used to generate power and make toilet paper
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Recycling to Turn Trash into Cash
Tue 10 Jul 2018
Two projects that make life better for people keeping rubbish off the streets
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The Bricks Helping to Rebuild Gaza
Tue 3 Jul 2018
The young Gazan engineer making bricks out of ash and rubble
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Learning Lessons from the Longest Living Lands
Tue 26 Jun 2018
Can adapting your lifestyle add 10 years to your lifespan?
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Nigeria's Secret STI Test Kits
Tue 19 Jun 2018
The start-up that allows people to self test for STIs in secret
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Can a $1 million Prize Help Keep Women Safe?
Tue 12 Jun 2018
A competition to design a gadget that will send a secret alert if someone is attacked.
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Clean Clothes and Glasses for the Poorest in Society
Tue 22 May 2018
How do you improve the lives of the very poorest people? Sometimes it鈥檚 the simple things.
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Turning Subsistence Farming into an Investment Opportunity
Tue 15 May 2018
How a new Nigerian tech startup is turning small scale farms into financial investments
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The People鈥檚 Peace Talks
Tue 1 May 2018
Can the public can succeed where the politicians have failed?
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The Schools Trying to Build Bridges
Tue 24 Apr 2018
Could bilingual schools help bring peace to a seemingly intractable conflict?
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The Town Trying to Cure Loneliness
Tue 10 Apr 2018
Meet the people trying to tackle loneliness in Frome in the United Kingdom.
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The Babies Teaching Kindness In Class [REPEAT]
Mon 2 Apr 2018
Naomi is not your average teacher. For one thing, she is only six months old.
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How to Help 成人快手less People in Hospital
Tue 20 Mar 2018
A project that tries to stop people returning to a life of homelessness after hospital
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The Bird Rescuers
Tue 13 Mar 2018
Meet the people designing clever ways to protect our feathered friends.
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Recycling Chewing Gum Litter to Clean Our Streets
Tue 6 Mar 2018
Recycling chewing gum to fight litter
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How to Talk to Potential Extremists
Tue 27 Feb 2018
Can you persuade potential extremists out of their views by chatting to them on Facebook?
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Putting Forgotten Pills Back to Work
Tue 20 Feb 2018
An app is helping people donate their leftover drugs to people who can't afford them.
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Improvising Your Way Out of Anxiety
Tue 13 Feb 2018
Could this theatre technique help improve mental health?
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The Hydroponics Revolution
Tue 6 Feb 2018
How hydroponics 鈥� growing plants in water 鈥� is shaping the future of food.
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The Babies Teaching Kindness in Class
Tue 23 Jan 2018
Naomi is not your average teacher. For one thing, she is only six months old
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People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
