People Fixing the World Podcast
Brilliant solutions to the world鈥檚 problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work.
Episodes to download
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Clean Clothes and Glasses for the Poorest in Society
Tue 22 May 2018
How do you improve the lives of the very poorest people? Sometimes it鈥檚 the simple things.
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Turning Subsistence Farming into an Investment Opportunity
Tue 15 May 2018
How a new Nigerian tech startup is turning small scale farms into financial investments
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The People鈥檚 Peace Talks
Tue 1 May 2018
Can the public can succeed where the politicians have failed?
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The Schools Trying to Build Bridges
Tue 24 Apr 2018
Could bilingual schools help bring peace to a seemingly intractable conflict?
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The Town Trying to Cure Loneliness
Tue 10 Apr 2018
Meet the people trying to tackle loneliness in Frome in the United Kingdom.
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The Babies Teaching Kindness In Class [REPEAT]
Mon 2 Apr 2018
Naomi is not your average teacher. For one thing, she is only six months old.
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How to Help Homeless People in Hospital
Tue 20 Mar 2018
A project that tries to stop people returning to a life of homelessness after hospital
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The Bird Rescuers
Tue 13 Mar 2018
Meet the people designing clever ways to protect our feathered friends.
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Recycling Chewing Gum Litter to Clean Our Streets
Tue 6 Mar 2018
Recycling chewing gum to fight litter
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How to Talk to Potential Extremists
Tue 27 Feb 2018
Can you persuade potential extremists out of their views by chatting to them on Facebook?
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Putting Forgotten Pills Back to Work
Tue 20 Feb 2018
An app is helping people donate their leftover drugs to people who can't afford them.
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Improvising Your Way Out of Anxiety
Tue 13 Feb 2018
Could this theatre technique help improve mental health?
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The Hydroponics Revolution
Tue 6 Feb 2018
How hydroponics 鈥� growing plants in water 鈥� is shaping the future of food.
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The Babies Teaching Kindness in Class
Tue 23 Jan 2018
Naomi is not your average teacher. For one thing, she is only six months old
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Checking-in With The Problem Solvers
Tue 2 Jan 2018
World Hacks returns to stories from last year to see how these projects have developed.
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Scouts, Knives and a Community Fridge
Boxing Day 2017
This week we hear about three small solutions trying to make a dent on some big problems.
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The Ring That Could Help Save Women鈥檚 Lives
Tue 19 Dec 2017
Can a tiny silicon ring lower HIV transmission rates in Malawi?
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How to Get Wheelchairs on Planes
Tue 12 Dec 2017
Why can鈥檛 wheelchair users just roll onto aeroplanes?
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Drone Delivery: Medicines By Air
Tue 5 Dec 2017
The drones delivering life-saving supplies in Malawi.
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Smartphone-Activated First Aiders
Tue 28 Nov 2017
Can an app help people survive cardiac arrests by alerting first aiders who are nearby?
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The Former Neo-Nazi Helping Others To Quit
Tue 21 Nov 2017
The former Neo-Nazi helping others to quit.
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How Iceland Saved Its Teenagers
Tue 14 Nov 2017
The story of how a nation came together to wean its teenagers off drink and drugs.
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The Missing Maps
Tue 7 Nov 2017
How volunteers are plotting the world to put 'invisible people' on the map.
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The Town Where Public Toilets Are Everywhere
Tue 31 Oct 2017
Germany has come up with a clever way of increasing the number of its public toilets.
People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
