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People Fixing the World Episodes

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    Recovery for all

    Making it easier to recover from ill health through rehabilitation

  2. Radioactive rhinos

    Going nuclear to stop poaching

  3. Racing to get kids reading

    How a race to write books and a gadget that counts words are helping child literacy

  4. Putting Forgotten Pills Back to Work

    An app is helping people donate their leftover drugs to people who can't afford them.

  5. Putting a price on carbon

    How to increase the cost of causing climate change

  6. Protecting wildlife from human activity

    We look at projects to reduce the harm caused to wildlife by human behaviour

  7. Problem-Solving Prizes

    How big cash rewards can drive innovation

  8. Prison Voicemail: Messages from behind bars

    Prisoners and their families are keeping in touch with the Prison Voicemail app

  9. Prison Voicemail: Messages from behind bars

    Prisoners and their families are keeping in touch with the Prison Voicemail app

  10. Preserving Peru’s food heritage

    How potatoes and other crops are being nurtured in the face of climate and other threats

  11. Predicting suicide

    How machine learning could be used to predict who will take their own life

  12. Postmen Delivering Kindness to the Elderly

    Could postal workers help solve the social care crisis?

  13. Portugal, drugs and decriminalisation

    In 2001 Portugal decriminalised personal drug use to tackle a heroin crisis.

  14. Plants fighting pollution

    Meet the plants that clear up oil spills and provide clean water

  15. Picking up healthcare with the litter

    Collecting rubbish as if your life depended on it

  16. Personality tests for loans

    How an online test and a phone might be able to help some people with their finances.

  17. Perovskites: The future of solar?

    A new kind of solar cell is made by drying a special liquid on a surface

  18. Pedal power: How bicycles can change lives

    One man’s mission to transform millions of lives by selling them bicycles

  19. Palm oil that’s better for wildlife

    How a palm oil plantation is helping nature to thrive in Borneo

  20. Pakistan’s Laptop Female Doctors

    How do you help female doctors get back to work after having families?

  21. Oysters to the rescue

    The humble oyster is helping to keep the oceans clean and protect shorelines

  22. Overcoming stigma

    The communities in Nigeria and India changing mindsets

  23. Our favourite solutions

    Presenter Myra Anubi and the team chat about some of their favourite projects of the year

  24. Our favourite solutions

    Myra Anubi and team chat about some of their favourite projects of the last twelve months

  25. Our favourite climate solutions

    We join forces with fellow BBC podcast The Climate Question for this special edition

  26. Olympic-sized solutions

    We look at how sport has a unique ability to change people’s lives for the better.

  27. No more bosses

    How do you make work a better place? Get rid of managers, say some companies.

  28. No more bosses

    How do you make work a better place? Get rid of managers, say some companies.

  29. No brother left behind

    The apprenticeship scheme that helped the Nigerian Igbo people build generational wealth.

  30. Nigeria's Secret STI Test Kits

    The start-up that allows people to self test for STIs in secret

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