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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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
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Turning mud into 鈥榗lean鈥� concrete
Tue 17 May 2022
The man whose special powder turns waste soil into buildings
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Robots fixing sewers
Tue 10 May 2022
The robots that navigate sewer pipes to find leaks and blockages so people don't have to
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Using lotteries to make us better people
Tue 3 May 2022
The lotteries that nudge people to take medicine, pick up litter or pay their taxes
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Work: Access for all
Tue 26 Apr 2022
We look at workplaces that have welcomed people with learning disabilities on to the team
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Sponge cities that fight flooding
Tue 19 Apr 2022
How cities are embracing nature to prevent flooding
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Turning tyres into cheap fuel & football pitches
Tue 12 Apr 2022
The entrepreneurs using clever chemistry to turn scrap rubber into fuel and car tyres
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Saving California鈥檚 butterflies
Tue 5 Apr 2022
How rearing butterflies by hand is bringing them back from the brink
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How to make fishing nets less destructive
Tue 29 Mar 2022
Using underwater sounds and lights so only the fish we want to eat get caught
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Making hospitals less stressful
Tue 22 Mar 2022
How leaves, lights, sounds and goats can improve patient health
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Prison Voicemail: Messages from behind bars
Tue 1 Mar 2022
Prisoners and their families are keeping in touch with the Prison Voicemail app
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Violent partners: The 鈥榳indow鈥� strategy
Tue 22 Feb 2022
How Iceland pioneered a new approach to domestic violence
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Training police to patrol each other
Tue 15 Feb 2022
How do you get officers to step in to prevent acts of police brutality?
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Using VR to change lives
Tue 1 Feb 2022
How virtual reality is helping tackle phobias and resolve conflict
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How to fight fake health news
Tue 25 Jan 2022
Can playing a video game 鈥榠noculate鈥� your mind against medical misinformation?
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Making clean water with rubbish
Tue 18 Jan 2022
The chemist using old bones and food waste to make clean drinking water
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Catching up with our solution seekers
Tue 11 Jan 2022
How are Covid dogs, a sturdy bicycle scheme and balloons beaming the internet getting on?
People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
