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 Britain's sea life
Tue 1 Oct 2024
We look at efforts being made to tackle the challenges of overfishing and climate change
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The power of native knowledge
Tue 24 Sep 2024
How communities in Peru and Niger are making the most of their own local knowledge
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Hopping aboard the hospital train
Tue 17 Sep 2024
How trains - and trucks - are taking healthcare into the communities that need it most.
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The medicines dropping from the sky
Tue 10 Sep 2024
The HIV drugs being delivered by drones in Kenya
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Our favourite climate solutions
Tue 20 Aug 2024
We join forces with fellow BBC podcast The Climate Question for this special edition
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Greener ways to keep cool
Tue 30 Jul 2024
We look at how sport has a unique ability to change people's lives for the better
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Olympic-sized solutions
Tue 23 Jul 2024
We look at how sport has a unique ability to change people’s lives for the better.
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Protecting wildlife from human activity
Tue 16 Jul 2024
We look at projects to reduce the harm caused to wildlife by human behaviour
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Rethinking mental health
Tue 9 Jul 2024
We look at innovative ways to improve mental health care in the US and Denmark.
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Africa's best new innovators
Tue 2 Jul 2024
Myra Anubi is in Nairobi at the final of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
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Making tourism work for everyone
Tue 25 Jun 2024
We look at a model of tourism designed to benefit local communities more fairly
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Saving water at a time of scarcity
Tue 18 Jun 2024
We look at solutions for conserving and reusing water.
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What to do with an empty mall?
Tue 11 Jun 2024
The US malls being brought back to life as schools, healthcare centres and offices.
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Solving Mexico City's water crisis
Tue 28 May 2024
We meet the scientists, activists and urban planners tackling the megacity's water woes.
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Living with climate change
Tue 21 May 2024
We go to El Salvador to look at projects tackling the effects of rising temperatures.
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The school run by kids
Tue 14 May 2024
The Thai school that’s proving a model for Thailand and beyond.
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Fighting sexism in society
Tue 7 May 2024
We look at how entrenched sexist attitudes towards women are being tackled
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Restoring California's underwater forests
Tue 30 Apr 2024
We look at projects helping protect and restore kelp along the coastline of California
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Kangaroo care for premature babies
Tue 23 Apr 2024
The simple skin-to-skin approach saving newborn lives
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How literacy can change a life
Tue 9 Apr 2024
How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read
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The power of music
Tue 2 Apr 2024
Innovative ways that music can ease pain and bring people together.
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Greener ways to feed the world
Tue 26 Mar 2024
How lab-brewed dairy and urban food forests can tackle climate change and hunger
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Magic mushrooms and mental health
Tue 19 Mar 2024
Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?
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Speaking up at work
Tue 12 Mar 2024
We look at how to raise concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace
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Clever ways to get kids learning
Tue 5 Mar 2024
We look at innovative educational solutions in Senegal, Ghana and Pakistan.
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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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Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
