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People Fixing The WorldEpisodes

  1. 10/02/2026 GMT

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

  2. Family Friendly Cities

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

  3. Helping prisoners become better parents

    An innovative scheme in Scotland is helping dads in prison become better parents

  4. Wild Horses

    Innovative solutions to the unwieldy population of wild horses in the American West

  5. No brother left behind

    The apprenticeship scheme that helped the Nigerian Igbo people build generational wealth

  6. Can AI power a green fashion revolution?

    Is AI helping to make fashion more sustainable? Or could it make the problem worse?(R)

  7. Making friends in Sweden

    How buddy schemes and friendship hours are helping people in Sweden make friends

  8. Our favourite solutions

    Presenter Myra Anubi and the team chat about some of their favourite projects in 2025

  9. Saving mothers with portable ultrasound

    How technological innovations are helping with the health of new mothers

  10. Rethinking dyslexia

    Harnessing the skills of people with dyslexia by improving education and understanding

  11. Building empathy and fighting disinformation

    The children learning how to respect each other and understand their emotions better

  12. Preserving Peru’s food heritage

    How potatoes and other crops are being nurtured in the face of climate and other threats

  13. Saving seabirds and squirrels

    How contraceptive in a nutty spread could control invasive species

  14. Making organ donation easier

    How technology and teaching are being used to tackle shortages of organ donations

  15. Helping and healing in Sierra Leone

    How community solutions are helping amputees and drug users in the West African nation

  16. Harnessing the wind to keep us cool

    How Stuttgart in Germany has inspired other cities to use their natural airflow.

  17. Alaska’s wild solutions

    The island powered by renewables and how mushrooms could be the future of insulation

  18. The preschool in a retirement home

    How young and old benefit from living side by side

  19. Surgery in a backpack

    We find out about a portable operating theatre that could revolutionise health treatment

  20. Transforming life in cities

    Creating safe and comfortable living spaces in one of the poorest parts of Mumbai, India

  21. The power of play

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

  22. Digging deep to help farmers

    A new farming method is having a dramatic effect on crop yields in Malawi

  23. Flower power

    Exploring innovative solutions to flower waste from temples in India

  24. Front Yard floods

    New Orleans residents are fighting the flood waters, one yard at a time

  25. A washing machine solution

    The Sikh engineer who invented a hand crank, off-grid washing machine for his neighbour

  26. Speaking out

    Solutions helping people who struggle to communicate

  27. Safer streets in Cairo

    Can redesigning parts of Cairo make the city's streets safer for women?

  28. How seaweed is surprisingly useful

    From powering cars to feeding farm animals, how using seaweed more can help the planet

  29. Being better citizens

    How two projects in Portugal are seeking to bolster people's participation in society.

  30. Saving mothers and babies

    We hear about the low-cost incubator that can run on a battery and a bottle of water

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