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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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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Keeping the Amazon standing
Tue 30 Jan 2024
Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees
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Fake birds and other stories
Boxing Day 2023
This week a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023.
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Making landfill less awful
Tue 19 Dec 2023
The people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture
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The country tackling loneliness
Tue 12 Dec 2023
How the Netherlands is making a serious attempt to tackle something we can all feel
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Building a clinic to save a forest
Tue 5 Dec 2023
How cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo
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The plastic eaters
Tue 28 Nov 2023
The hungry enzymes that might just be the solution to plastic pollution.
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Fighting period poverty
Tue 21 Nov 2023
How hand-stitched pads and a comic book are trying to make women’s lives better
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Sharing the river
Tue 14 Nov 2023
How two communities in Bolivia learned to work together to protect their water
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Training heroin users to save their friends
Tue 7 Nov 2023
How drug users in Scotland are being trained to treat people who have overdosed
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Sea cucumbers fixing the world
Tue 24 Oct 2023
How the humble sea cucumber and its poo is helping coral reefs
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AI for good
Tue 10 Oct 2023
How artificial intelligence is being used to fight anxiety and save children's lives
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Coconuts fixing the world
Tue 3 Oct 2023
How coconut husks are being used to prevent plastic waste and protect the forest
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Surviving earthquakes
Tue 26 Sep 2023
From a VR game to a hobby seismometer – projects to try and make earthquakes less deadly
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Shockwaves for the heart
Tue 19 Sep 2023
The Austrian surgeon with a radical new treatment for heart disease
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