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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Saving mothers with portable ultrasound
Tue 16 Dec 2025
How technological innovations are helping with the health of new mothers
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Rethinking dyslexia
Tue 9 Dec 2025
Harnessing the skills of dyslexic people by improving education and understanding
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Building empathy and fighting disinformation
Tue 2 Dec 2025
The children learning to understand their emotions better and what to look out for online
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Preserving Peru’s food heritage
Tue 25 Nov 2025
How potatoes and other crops are being nurtured in the face of climate and other threats
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How literacy can change a life
Tue 18 Nov 2025
How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read
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Saving seabirds and squirrels
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Contraceptive in a nutty spread is being developed to control grey squirrels in the UK.
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Making organ donation easier
Tue 4 Nov 2025
How technology - and teaching - are being used to tackle shortages of organ donations.
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Helping and healing in Sierra Leone
Tue 28 Oct 2025
How community solutions are helping amputees and drug users in the West African nation
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Harnessing the wind to keep us cool
Tue 21 Oct 2025
How Stuttgart in Germany has inspired other cities to use their natural airflow
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Alaska's wild solutions
Tue 14 Oct 2025
The island powered by renewables - and how mushrooms could be the future of insulation
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The preschool in a retirement home
Tue 7 Oct 2025
How young and old can benefit from living side by side
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Surgery in a backpack
Tue 30 Sep 2025
We find out about a portable operating theatre that could revolutionise health treatment
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Transforming life in cities
Tue 23 Sep 2025
Creating safe and comfortable living spaces in one of the poorest parts of Mumbai, India
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Digging deep to help farmers
Tue 9 Sep 2025
An innovative new farming method is having a dramatic effect on crop yields in Malawi.
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Front Yard Floods
Tue 26 Aug 2025
New Orleans residents are fighting the flood waters, one yard at a time
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A Washing Machine Solution
Tue 19 Aug 2025
The hand crank, off grid machine designed to help the billions who still handwash clothes
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Safer streets in Cairo
Wed 6 Aug 2025
Can redesigning parts of Cairo make the city's streets safer for women?
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How seaweed is surprisingly useful
Tue 29 Jul 2025
From powering cars to feeding farm animals, how using seaweed more can help the planet.
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Being better citizens
Tue 22 Jul 2025
How two projects in Portugal are seeking to bolster people's participation in society.
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Saving mothers and babies
Tue 15 Jul 2025
We hear about the low-cost incubators that can run on a battery and a bottle of water.
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Cutting food waste
Tue 8 Jul 2025
The innovative 'smart labels' on food packaging and feeding fish with whisky waste
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The traffic lights tackling poverty
Tue 1 Jul 2025
We visit an innovative project in Paraguay that helps people improve their lives
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What to do with stray animals
Tue 24 Jun 2025
How the numbers of stray dogs - and feral pigeons - can be kept down kindly
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Making hospitals kinder for kids
Tue 17 Jun 2025
How clowns and consoles are making a stay in hospital a bit easier for unwell youngsters.
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Making life easier for older people
Tue 10 Jun 2025
We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.
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Shipping containers fixing the world
Tue 3 Jun 2025
How the metal boxes can be re-engineered in surprising and useful ways
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Malawi's waste warriors
Tue 27 May 2025
Presenter Myra Anubi is in Malawi to meet those making the most of the country's waste.
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