Problem-Solving Prizes
An innovative new weekly programme looking at how we can solve the world's problems.
People cannot resist a prize, especially when there is money to go with a medal, and for hundreds of years that basic human urge has been used to push humanity forward. When you focus minds and money towards a simple target, incredible things can happen - from the clock that won the Longitude prize money in the 1700s to the spacecraft that won the XPRIZE in 2004. Are there any problems that a big enough prize cannot solve?
Producer: William Kremer
(Photo: Pilot Mike Melvill standing on Space Ship One, which went on to win the Ansari XPRIZE. Credit: Getty Images)
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- Tue 17 Apr 201802:06GMTBBC World Service West and Central Africa, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview & Online only
- Tue 17 Apr 201803:06GMTBBC World Service East Asia & South Asia only
- Tue 17 Apr 201806:06GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & Australasia only
- Tue 17 Apr 201807:06GMTBBC World Service Europe and the Middle East
- Tue 17 Apr 201814:06GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Tue 17 Apr 201819:06GMTBBC World Service Australasia, Americas and the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe and the Middle East & East Asia only
- Wed 18 Apr 201819:06GMTBBC World Service UK DAB/Freeview & Online only
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