People Fixing the World Podcast
Brilliant solutions to the world’s 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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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’s 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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Training heroin users to save their friends
Tue 7 Nov 2023
How drug users in Scotland are being trained to treat people who have overdosed
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Sea cucumbers fixing the world
Tue 24 Oct 2023
How the humble sea cucumber and its poo is helping coral reefs
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AI for good
Tue 10 Oct 2023
How artificial intelligence is being used to fight anxiety and save children's lives
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Coconuts fixing the world
Tue 3 Oct 2023
How coconut husks are being used to prevent plastic waste and protect the forest
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Surviving earthquakes
Tue 26 Sep 2023
From a VR game to a hobby seismometer – projects to try and make earthquakes less deadly
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Shockwaves for the heart
Tue 19 Sep 2023
The Austrian surgeon with a radical new treatment for heart disease
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Genetic problem-solving
Tue 12 Sep 2023
From fast-growing food to life-saving rice, is genetic modification a good solution?
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Female farmers fighting sexism
Tue 5 Sep 2023
How women are fighting back against discrimination in agriculture
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The bubble barrier cleaning up rivers
Tue 25 Jul 2023
How Dutch inventors are removing plastic from rivers with a ‘net’ made from bubbles
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Eating invasive species
Tue 18 Jul 2023
When plants and animals invade new areas, can we ‘eat them to beat them’?
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The game that fixes cities
Tue 11 Jul 2023
How cryptocurrency and blockchain are being used to try and solve some everyday problems
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The power of a backstory
Tue 4 Jul 2023
How mini-biographies are helping elderly patients connect with their carers
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Turning mud into ‘clean’ concrete
Tue 20 Jun 2023
The man whose special powder turns waste soil into buildings
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Palm oil that’s better for wildlife
Tue 13 Jun 2023
How a palm oil plantation is helping nature to thrive in Borneo
People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel