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People Fixing The World Episodes

  1. Insects fixing the world

    An innovative new weekly programme looking at how we can solve the world's problems.

  2. Insects fixing the world

    How flies and bugs can help solve the planet’s problems

  3. Improvising Your Way Out of Anxiety

    Could this theatre technique help improve mental health?

  4. Improving our eyesight

    We visit a coffee plantation in India to see how the sight of workers is being improved

  5. How to thrive with ADHD

    How home and work can be adapted to improve life for people with ADHD

  6. How to Talk to Potential Extremists

    Can you persuade potential extremists out of their views by chatting to them on Facebook?

  7. How to store power in soil and salt

    Batteries made of building blocks and volcanic rock

  8. How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods

    The innovative fire alarm designed to protect South Africa’s poorest communities

  9. How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods

    The innovative fire alarm designed to protect South Africa’s poorest communities

  10. How to spot fake drugs with a mobile phone

    Mobile phones and apps are being used to detect fake medicines and save lives

  11. How to save the banana

    The banana is under threat from a deadly disease. These people are trying to save it.

  12. How to reuse and repair

    The people finding new ways to keep old things in use

  13. How to reuse a demolished building

    Can you construct a building by reusing materials from ones that have been knocked down?

  14. How to put the internet in a box

    Inside the “sneakernet” - the people carrying websites to places that are off the grid

  15. How to prevent drowning

    AI to help lifeguards in Israel and weather forecasts for fishermen on Lake Victoria

  16. How to move the Earth

    The plans to use lasers or asteroids to move our planet away from the sun

  17. How To Make Sushi From Methane Gas

    A new process uses bacteria that eat methane gas to make food.

  18. How to make fishing nets less destructive

    Using underwater sounds and lights so only the fish we want to eat get caught

  19. How to make electricity for your neighbours

    The energy microgrid that started with scrap metal and an old bicycle

  20. How to Help Homeless People in Hospital

    A project that tries to stop people returning to a life of homelessness after hospital

  21. How to have better sex

    Solutions to help people enjoy sex more

  22. How to have better sex

    Solutions to help people enjoy sex more

  23. How to have better sex

    Achieving enjoyable sex is not possible for many - what can be done to help?

  24. How to Get Wheelchairs on Planes

    Why can’t wheelchair users just roll onto aeroplanes?

  25. How to get people eating less meat

    Can ‘fake meat’ help reduce the amount of meat we consume?

  26. How to get everyone online

    Balloons and satellites could help get more people get on to the internet

  27. How to Get Blood Where it is Needed

    An entrepreneur in Nigeria is using an app to solve the blood shortage.

  28. How to fix democracy

    The debating platform that brings people together

  29. How to fight fake health news

    Can playing a video game ‘inoculate’ your mind against medical misinformation?

  30. How to Build a City for an Ageing Population

    Japan’s Kashiwa City has redesigned buildings and jobs to adapt to an ageing population

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