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People Fixing The World

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

World Service,441 episodes

Episodes

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Can AI power a green fashion revolution?
Is AI helping to make fashion more sustainable? Or could it make the problem worse?
06 Jan 2026,23 mins
Making friends in Sweden
How buddy schemes and friendship hours are helping people in Sweden make friends
30 Dec 2025,23 mins
Our favourite solutions
Presenter Myra Anubi and the team chat about some of their favourite projects in 2025
23 Dec 2025,23 mins
Saving mothers with portable ultrasound
How technological innovations are helping with the health of new mothers
16 Dec 2025,23 mins
Rethinking dyslexia
Harnessing the skills of people with dyslexia by improving education and understanding
09 Dec 2025,23 mins
Building empathy and fighting disinformation
The children learning how to respect each other and understand their emotions better
02 Dec 2025,23 mins
Preserving Peru’s food heritage
How potatoes and other crops are being nurtured in the face of climate and other threats
25 Nov 2025,23 mins
Saving seabirds and squirrels
How contraceptive in a nutty spread could control invasive species
11 Nov 2025,23 mins
Making organ donation easier
How technology and teaching are being used to tackle shortages of organ donations
04 Nov 2025,23 mins
Helping and healing in Sierra Leone
How community solutions are helping amputees and drug users in the West African nation
28 Oct 2025,23 mins
Harnessing the wind to keep us cool
How Stuttgart in Germany has inspired other cities to use their natural airflow.
21 Oct 2025,23 mins
Alaska’s wild solutions
The island powered by renewables and how mushrooms could be the future of insulation
14 Oct 2025,23 mins
The preschool in a retirement home
How young and old benefit from living side by side
07 Oct 2025,23 mins
Surgery in a backpack
We find out about a portable operating theatre that could revolutionise health treatment
30 Sep 2025,23 mins
Transforming life in cities
Creating safe and comfortable living spaces in one of the poorest parts of Mumbai, India
23 Sep 2025,23 mins
The power of play
We visit the children’s playground where parents aren’t allowed
16 Sep 2025,23 mins
Digging deep to help farmers
A new farming method is having a dramatic effect on crop yields in Malawi
09 Sep 2025,23 mins
Flower power
Exploring innovative solutions to flower waste from temples in India
02 Sep 2025,23 mins
Front Yard floods
New Orleans residents are fighting the flood waters, one yard at a time
26 Aug 2025,23 mins
A washing machine solution
The Sikh engineer who invented a hand crank, off-grid washing machine for his neighbour
19 Aug 2025,23 mins
Speaking out
Solutions helping people who struggle to communicate
12 Aug 2025,23 mins
Safer streets in Cairo
Can redesigning parts of Cairo make the city's streets safer for women?
05 Aug 2025,23 mins
How seaweed is surprisingly useful
From powering cars to feeding farm animals, how using seaweed more can help the planet
29 Jul 2025,23 mins
Being better citizens
How two projects in Portugal are seeking to bolster people's participation in society.
22 Jul 2025,23 mins
Saving mothers and babies
We hear about the low-cost incubator that can run on a battery and a bottle of water
15 Jul 2025,23 mins
Cutting food waste
The innovative 'smart sensors' that could cut waste and feeding fish with whisky waste
08 Jul 2025,23 mins
The traffic lights tackling poverty
We visit an innovative project in Paraguay which helps people improve their lives
01 Jul 2025,23 mins
What to do with stray animals
How the numbers of stray dogs - and feral pigeons - are being controlled in urban areas
24 Jun 2025,23 mins
Making hospitals kinder for kids
How clowns and consoles are making a stay in hospital a bit easier for unwell youngsters
17 Jun 2025,23 mins
Shipping containers fixing the world
How the metal boxes can be re-engineered in surprising and useful ways
03 Jun 2025,23 mins