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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Making your deliveries greener
Tue 17 Dec 2019
Four clever ways to reduce carbon emissions from deliveries
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Convicting more rapists
Tue 10 Dec 2019
Rapists often get away without being convicted – South Africa thinks it has an answer
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Turning kids into entrepreneurs
Tue 3 Dec 2019
Children in Uganda are running their own businesses thanks to special classes in school
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Saving the World’s Ice
Tue 26 Nov 2019
Silica beads and whiter clouds - ideas to stop the world’s ice melting
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Stopping abuse with protection dogs
Tue 19 Nov 2019
Women who have left abusive partners are learning how to train their own protection dogs
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How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods
Tue 12 Nov 2019
The innovative fire alarm designed to protect South Africa’s poorest communities
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How to save the banana
Tue 5 Nov 2019
The banana is under threat from a deadly disease. These people are trying to save it.
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The future of freight
Tue 29 Oct 2019
Designing eco-friendly lorries to make cleaner, greener deliveries
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Gaming for good
Tue 22 Oct 2019
Gamers are helping scientists to analyse research and develop new drugs
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The town rethinking the future of energy
Tue 15 Oct 2019
Energy companies have come together in Finland to tackle climate change
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Shopping for a better life
Tue 8 Oct 2019
How a grocery store is bringing health care to people who can’t usually afford it
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Turning waste into energy
Tue 1 Oct 2019
Instead of sending all our waste to landfill, some companies are using it to make energy
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Spotting the sound of a cardiac arrest
Tue 24 Sep 2019
Copenhagen is experimenting with a new way of analysing emergency calls
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The snakebite squad
Tue 17 Sep 2019
A team in Kenya has introduced motorbike ambulances for people bitten by snakes
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Meeting Colombia’s ‘Violentologist’
Tue 10 Sep 2019
How a doctor in Colombia changed the way cities monitor and prevent violence
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A new way to detect an invisible poison in water
Tue 3 Sep 2019
Scientists hope a new test will save millions from drinking arsenic in their water
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Oysters to the rescue
Tue 27 Aug 2019
The humble oyster is helping to keep the oceans clean and protect shorelines
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The concrete cleaners
Tue 20 Aug 2019
Making cement that locks in carbon dioxide instead of releasing it into the atmosphere
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Bangladesh’s biker girls
Tue 13 Aug 2019
The motorbike taxi app where the drivers and passengers are all women.
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A simple way to help a relative if they’re arrested
Tue 30 Jul 2019
A group in California is teaching families how to help loved ones charged with crimes
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Stopping child marriage with solar lanterns
Tue 23 Jul 2019
Solar-powered lamps are giving girls independence and stopping them becoming child brides
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Trieste’s mental health ‘revolution’
Tue 16 Jul 2019
How Italy’s radical decision to close its mental asylums shaped the way we think today
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The school that puts wellbeing first
Tue 9 Jul 2019
One primary school has found a way to deliver therapy to about 10% of its students
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Residents turn detective to fight crime
Tue 2 Jul 2019
Neighbours in the US are using cameras that read car number plates to cut crime
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Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor
Tue 25 Jun 2019
Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations
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Portugal, drugs and decriminalisation
Tue 18 Jun 2019
In 2001 Portugal decriminalised personal drug use to tackle a heroin crisis.
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Can capturing carbon buy us time to tackle climate change?
Tue 11 Jun 2019
The projects that are trying to take CO2 out of the atmosphere
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Can sleep deprivation help treat bipolar disorder?
Tue 4 Jun 2019
An Italian doctor asks patients to stay awake all night, to try to allay their depression
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Audience takeover: Your plastic solutions
Tue 28 May 2019
We hear what you, our listeners, are doing to tackle the problem of plastic waste.
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