People Fixing The World Podcast
Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.
Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.
A weekly programme looking at common challenges around the world and the creative ways people are trying to tackle them.
Presenter Myra Anubi speaks to reporters, experts and innovators to investigate how effective different solutions are, share their successes and inspire listeners with what is possible.
Episodes to download
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Beating superbugs
Tue 16 Feb 2021
The small team of Indian scientists who think they’ve found a new way to kill superbugs
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How to store power in soil and salt
Tue 9 Feb 2021
Batteries made of building blocks and volcanic rock
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The spacesuits saving mothers’ lives
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Suits originally designed for astronauts are helping midwives save lives
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A forest down your street
Tue 19 Jan 2021
The tiny urban forests bringing nature to the heart of the city
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The solutions whisperer
Tue 12 Jan 2021
Dhruv Boruah’s mission is to inspire other people to solve problems facing the planet
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Can doughnuts save the planet?
Tue 5 Jan 2021
Doughnut economics in action - how we can live well and save the planet at the same time
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What happened next to our problem solvers
Tue 29 Dec 2020
Hydrating sweets for the elderly go on sale and how a housing experiment coped with Covid
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Saving mums and their unborn babies
Tue 22 Dec 2020
Women in Nigeria have come up with an emergency transport scheme that is saving lives
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Building with fungi
Tue 8 Dec 2020
Growing packaging, coffins and whole houses out of eco-friendly mycelium
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Perovskites: The future of solar?
Tue 1 Dec 2020
A new kind of solar cell is made by drying a special liquid on a surface
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Riding the solar railway
Tue 24 Nov 2020
How to make train journeys greener using the power of the sun
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From prison to star employee
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Why former criminals are being chosen for jobs at hundreds of companies in a small US city
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Audience takeover: Your questions answered
Tue 10 Nov 2020
Answers to your questions about regrowing the rainforest and other stories we’ve covered
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Teenage inventor special
Tue 3 Nov 2020
Brilliant ideas from school kids to help solve crime, make life safer and much more
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Saving Cape Cod’s dolphins
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Saving dolphins from stranding on beaches - we meet the team improving survival rates
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How to put the internet in a box
Tue 20 Oct 2020
Inside the “sneakernet” - the people carrying websites to places that are off the grid
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How jellyfish can help us
Tue 13 Oct 2020
Jellyfish could be used to filter microplastics from water and develop new medicines
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Training police to patrol each other
Tue 6 Oct 2020
US police are being taught what to do if they're worried about a colleague’s actions
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Getting rid of AI bias
Tue 29 Sep 2020
Better facial recognition and changing algorithms - how to fight racial bias in AI
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How to prevent drowning
Tue 22 Sep 2020
AI to help lifeguards in Israel and weather forecasts for fishermen on Lake Victoria
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Smartphones saving the rainforest
Tue 15 Sep 2020
Old mobile phones are being used to catch illegal loggers in the rainforest
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A happier planet
Tue 8 Sep 2020
Looking for the happiest places in the world and finding out what makes them happy
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Could a device invented in the 1930s help end period poverty?
Tue 25 Aug 2020
The people hoping to use sanitary pad micro-factories and silicone cups to help women
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The mums saving each other from a taboo condition
Tue 18 Aug 2020
Mums in Madagascar are ensuring others get the treatment that has transformed their lives
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The tech doctors forecasting heart failure
Tue 11 Aug 2020
Implanted devices can predict when something is about to go wrong with a patient’s heart
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Prison Voicemail: Messages from behind bars
Tue 4 Aug 2020
Prisoners and their families are keeping in touch with the Prison Voicemail app
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People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
