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People Fixing The World Episodes

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    The preschool in a retirement home

    How young and old can benefit from living side by side

  2. The preschool in a retirement home

    How young and old can benefit from living side by side.

  3. The power of poetry

    How poetry sparks hope, compassion and connection in surprising places.

  4. The power of play

    We visit the children’s playground where parents aren’t allowed

  5. The power of native knowledge

    How communities in Peru and Niger are making the most of their own local knowledge

  6. The power of music

    Innovative ways that music can ease pain and bring people together.

  7. The power of group therapy

    Therapy has been helping Boko Haram survivors and street youth in Liberia.

  8. The power of a backstory

    How mini-biographies are helping elderly patients connect with their carers

  9. The positive power of your peers

    The interactive Brazilian game that's helping teenagers help each other

  10. The plastic eaters

    The hungry enzymes that might just be the solution to plastic pollution.

  11. The pioneering TV news service

    We meet the reporters with learning difficulties who are holding power to account

  12. The pharmacists fighting high drug prices

    When drug prices went up, pharmacists stepped in to make medicines themselves

  13. The People’s Peace Talks

    Can the public can succeed where the politicians have failed?

  14. The people fixing childcare

    How mobile childcare is helping low-paid workers

  15. The Parent Hack For Cheaper Childcare

    An experimental nursery helps parents save money by letting them work childcare shifts.

  16. The mums saving each other from a taboo condition

    Women who have had surgery for fistula are making sure others get life-changing treatment

  17. The mums saving each other from a taboo condition

    Mums in Madagascar are ensuring others get the treatment that has transformed their lives

  18. The moo loo and other stories

    Training cows to use the toilet and a bouncy castle that fights climate change

  19. The Missing Maps

    How volunteers are plotting the world to put 'invisible people' on the map.

  20. The miracle cure: Exercise

    If exercise were a drug, almost everyone over 65 would want to take it

  21. The medicines dropping from the sky

    The HIV drugs being delivered by drones in Kenya

  22. The magic greenhouse

    A greenhouse powered by the wind has made it possible to grow crops on arid land

  23. The Little Libraries Bringing Books into People’s Homes

    Small boxes of books placed across the world are bringing people together

  24. The library where the books are people

    Borrow a stranger for a half-hour chat to challenge your prejudices

  25. The library where the books are people

    Borrow a stranger for a half-hour chat to challenge your prejudices

  26. The Kindergarten makeover

    How mums are helping transform early years education in Ghana - plus our listener poem!

  27. The jails where they do things differently

    The prison in Philadelphia that's adopted a Scandinavian model of custody

  28. The Hydroponics Revolution

    How hydroponics – growing plants in water – is shaping the future of food.

  29. The house that fights malaria

    Innovative ideas in the battle against mosquitos

  30. The hotel for homeless people

    When the coronavirus pandemic hit, England’s rough sleepers were offered a place to live

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