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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Plants fighting pollution
Tue 17 Jan 2023
Meet the plants that clear up oil spills and provide clean water
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Bringing dead languages back to life
Tue 10 Jan 2023
How do you revive a language with no living speakers?
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Fighting the megadrought
Tue 3 Jan 2023
How Chile has found ingenious ways of finding and using water
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Micro-homes and sobercoins
Tue 27 Dec 2022
The tiny houses helping homeless people to get off the streets
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Grannies fixing the world
Tue 20 Dec 2022
The projects around the world using the influence of grandmothers to help improve lives
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Board games fixing the world
Tue 13 Dec 2022
Can playing board games help us fix real-world problems?
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The body suit that stops muscle spasms
Tue 29 Nov 2022
Clever physiotherapy tools to help people get moving
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Jobs for girls
Tue 15 Nov 2022
How training women in male dominated professions is changing finances and attitudes
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COP27: Growing a forest the right way
Tue 8 Nov 2022
Tree-planting schemes don’t always work, so what’s the best way to do forest restoration?
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Picking up healthcare with the litter
Tue 1 Nov 2022
Collecting rubbish as if your life depended on it
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Albatrosses and oysters fixing the world
Tue 25 Oct 2022
How seabirds and shellfish are protecting our planet
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The food waste warriors
Tue 20 Sep 2022
Three women with innovative projects stopping food from going to waste
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How to get people eating less meat
Tue 13 Sep 2022
Can ‘fake meat’ help reduce the amount of meat we consume?
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Robots on the beat
Tue 6 Sep 2022
How police in the US are using tech, including robots, to fight crime
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What 3D printing can fix
Tue 23 Aug 2022
How 3D printing is changing lives from prosthetic limbs to classroom aids
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What 3D printing can fix
Tue 23 Aug 2022
How 3D printing is changing lives from prosthetic limbs to classroom aids
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Getting refugees out of tents
Tue 2 Aug 2022
Can we provide better shelters than tents for displaced people?
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Using finance to fight homelessness
Tue 26 Jul 2022
How bank accounts and clever investments are improving the lives of homeless people
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Saving kids with cancer
Tue 19 Jul 2022
The Filipino doctor who’s found an affordable way of treating children with cancer
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The power of group therapy
Tue 12 Jul 2022
Therapy has been helping Boko Haram survivors and street youth in Liberia.
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People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
