People Fixing the World Podcast
Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work.
Episodes to download
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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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Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor
Tue 21 Jul 2020
Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations
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New uses for old solutions
Tue 14 Jul 2020
How two life-saving apps were adapted to fix problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
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How to get everyone online
Tue 7 Jul 2020
Balloons and satellites could help get more people get on to the internet
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A future without bees
Tue 30 Jun 2020
High-tech alternatives to bees include spraying pollen from drones to pollinate plants
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How tech is tackling wildlife trafficking
Tue 23 Jun 2020
The exciting new tools helping to save some of our most endangered animals.
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Personality tests for loans
Tue 16 Jun 2020
How an online test and a phone might be able to help some people with their finances.
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Kids fixing the world
Tue 9 Jun 2020
Clever inventions by children that could improve our lives, from apps to robots
People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
