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People Fixing The World Episodes

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    Living longer, living better

    We go to a festival in Norway that's celebrating ageing through culture and conversation

  2. Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor

    Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations

  3. Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor

    Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations

  4. Lend Me Your Eyes

    How apps and armchair volunteers are helping blind people around the world.

  5. Learning Lessons from the Longest Living Lands

    Can adapting your lifestyle add 10 years to your lifespan?

  6. Last video messages to help children grieve

    Making precious video memories for children

  7. Kids versus Cars

    The movement turning streets into playgrounds

  8. Kids fixing the world

    Clever inventions by children that could improve our lives, from apps to robots

  9. Keeping the Amazon standing

    Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees

  10. Keeping men healthy

    The barbers providing mental health support and the truckers getting help at the roadside

  11. Keeping medicines cool

    How enzymes and earthen pots can help keep medicines safe

  12. Keeping data forever

    Three radical new ways to save data – in DNA, glass and magnets

  13. Kangaroo care for premature babies

    The simple skin-to-skin approach saving newborn lives

  14. Kangaroo care for premature babies

    The simple skin-to-skin approach saving newborn lives

  15. Jobs for Syrian Refugees

    Why they’re handing out work permits to refugees in Jordan.

  16. Jobs for girls

    How training women in male dominated professions is changing finances and attitudes

  17. Introducing: Season 2 of 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

    How animals make us smarter – we thought you might like to hear our brand new episode

  18. Insects fixing the world

    An innovative new weekly programme looking at how we can solve the world's problems.

  19. Insects fixing the world

    How flies and bugs can help solve the planet’s problems

  20. Improvising Your Way Out of Anxiety

    Could this theatre technique help improve mental health?

  21. Improving our eyesight

    We visit a coffee plantation in India to see how the sight of workers is being improved

  22. How to thrive with ADHD

    How home and work can be adapted to improve life for people with ADHD

  23. How to Talk to Potential Extremists

    Can you persuade potential extremists out of their views by chatting to them on Facebook?

  24. How to store power in soil and salt

    Batteries made of building blocks and volcanic rock

  25. How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods

    The innovative fire alarm designed to protect South Africa’s poorest communities

  26. How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods

    The innovative fire alarm designed to protect South Africa’s poorest communities

  27. How to spot fake drugs with a mobile phone

    Mobile phones and apps are being used to detect fake medicines and save lives

  28. How to save the banana

    The banana is under threat from a deadly disease. These people are trying to save it.

  29. How to reuse and repair

    The people finding new ways to keep old things in use

  30. How to reuse a demolished building

    Can you construct a building by reusing materials from ones that have been knocked down?

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