People Fixing The World

Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.

World Service,461 episodes

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Fashion without barriers
Exploring style and beauty for people with disabilities
04 Jun 2024,23 mins
Solving Mexico City's water crisis
We meet the scientists, activists and urban planners tackling the megacity's water woes.
28 May 2024,23 mins
Living with climate change
We go to El Salvador to look at projects tackling the effects of rising temperatures.
21 May 2024,23 mins
The school run by kids
The Thai school that’s proving a model for Thailand and beyond.
14 May 2024,23 mins
Fighting sexism in society
We look at how entrenched sexist attitudes towards women are being tackled
07 May 2024,23 mins
Restoring California's underwater forests
We look at projects helping protect and restore kelp along the coastline of California
30 Apr 2024,23 mins
Redefining luxury fashion
The luxury products that love the planet
16 Apr 2024,23 mins
How literacy can change a life
How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read
09 Apr 2024,23 mins
The power of music
Innovative ways that music can ease pain and bring people together.
02 Apr 2024,23 mins
Greener ways to feed the world
How lab-brewed dairy and urban food forests can tackle climate change and hunger
26 Mar 2024,23 mins
Magic mushrooms and mental health
Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?
19 Mar 2024,23 mins
Speaking up at work
We look at how to raise concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace.
12 Mar 2024,23 mins
Clever ways to get kids learning
We look at innovative educational solutions in Senegal, Ghana and Pakistan.
05 Mar 2024,23 mins
Making life easier for older people
We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.
20 Feb 2024,23 mins
Overcoming stigma
The communities in Nigeria and India changing mindsets.
13 Feb 2024,23 mins
Rewilding Earth
How beavers, bison and jaguars may help rebalance ecosystems
06 Feb 2024,23 mins
Keeping the Amazon standing
Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees
30 Jan 2024,23 mins
Fake birds and other stories
This week a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023.
26 Dec 2023,23 mins
Making landfill less awful
The people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture
19 Dec 2023,23 mins
The country tackling loneliness
How the Netherlands is making a serious attempt to tackle something we can all feel
12 Dec 2023,23 mins
Building a clinic to save a forest
How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo
05 Dec 2023,23 mins
The plastic eaters
The hungry enzymes that might just be the solution to plastic pollution.
28 Nov 2023,23 mins
Fighting period poverty
How hand-stitched pads are trying to make women’s lives better
21 Nov 2023,23 mins
Sharing the river
How two communities in Bolivia learned to work together to protect their water
14 Nov 2023,23 mins
Training heroin users to save their friends
How drug users in Glasgow are being trained to treat people who have overdosed
07 Nov 2023,23 mins
Disaster zone innovators
Hospital trains and robot medics
31 Oct 2023,23 mins
Stopping suicide
How volunteers are helping people in crisis in Limerick, Ireland
17 Oct 2023,23 mins
AI for good
How artificial intelligence is being used to fight anxiety and save children's lives
10 Oct 2023,23 mins
Coconuts fixing the world
How coconut husks are being used to prevent plastic waste and protect the forest
03 Oct 2023,23 mins
Surviving earthquakes
From a VR game to a hobby seismometer – projects trying to make earthquakes less deadly
26 Sep 2023,23 mins