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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Board games fixing the world
Tue 13 Dec 2022
Can playing board games help us fix real-world problems?
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The body suit that stops muscle spasms
Tue 29 Nov 2022
Clever physiotherapy tools to help people get moving
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Jobs for girls
Tue 15 Nov 2022
How training women in male dominated professions is changing finances and attitudes
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COP27: Growing a forest the right way
Tue 8 Nov 2022
Tree-planting schemes don鈥檛 always work, so what鈥檚 the best way to do forest restoration?
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Picking up healthcare with the litter
Tue 1 Nov 2022
Collecting rubbish as if your life depended on it
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Albatrosses and oysters fixing the world
Tue 25 Oct 2022
How seabirds and shellfish are protecting our planet
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The food waste warriors
Tue 20 Sep 2022
Three women with innovative projects stopping food from going to waste
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How to get people eating less meat
Tue 13 Sep 2022
Can 鈥榝ake meat鈥� help reduce the amount of meat we consume?
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Robots on the beat
Tue 6 Sep 2022
How police in the US are using tech, including robots, to fight crime
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What 3D printing can fix
Tue 23 Aug 2022
How 3D printing is changing lives from prosthetic limbs to classroom aids
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Getting refugees out of tents
Tue 2 Aug 2022
Can we provide better shelters than tents for displaced people?
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Using finance to fight homelessness
Tue 26 Jul 2022
How bank accounts and clever investments are improving the lives of homeless people
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Saving kids with cancer
Tue 19 Jul 2022
The Filipino doctor who鈥檚 found an affordable way of treating children with cancer
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The power of group therapy
Tue 12 Jul 2022
Therapy has been helping Boko Haram survivors and street youth in Liberia.
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The future of wind power
Tue 28 Jun 2022
How floating wind turbines and power-generating kites could help fight climate change
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Getting kids out of institutions
Tue 21 Jun 2022
Meet the people finding families for some of the 5 million children living in care
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Racing to get kids reading
Tue 14 Jun 2022
How a race to write books and a gadget that counts words are helping child literacy
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The library where the books are people
Tue 7 Jun 2022
Borrow a stranger for a half-hour chat to challenge your prejudices
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Helping teenagers become good mums
Tue 24 May 2022
Innovative projects around the world are trying to help teenage mums
People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
