People Fixing The World Episodes Episode guide
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No brother left behind
The apprenticeship scheme that helped the Nigerian Igbo people build generational wealth
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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?
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Making friends in Sweden
How buddy schemes and friendship hours are helping people in Sweden make friends
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Our favourite solutions
Presenter Myra Anubi and the team chat about some of their favourite projects in 2025
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Saving mothers with portable ultrasound
How technological innovations are helping with the health of new mothers
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Rethinking dyslexia
Harnessing the skills of people with dyslexia by improving education and understanding
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Building empathy and fighting disinformation
The children learning how to respect each other and understand their emotions better
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Preserving Peru鈥檚 food heritage
How potatoes and other crops are being nurtured in the face of climate and other threats
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Saving seabirds and squirrels
How contraceptive in a nutty spread could control invasive species
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Making organ donation easier
How technology and teaching are being used to tackle shortages of organ donations
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Helping and healing in Sierra Leone
How community solutions are helping amputees and drug users in the West African nation
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Harnessing the wind to keep us cool
How Stuttgart in Germany has inspired other cities to use their natural airflow.
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Alaska鈥檚 wild solutions
The island powered by renewables and how mushrooms could be the future of insulation
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The preschool in a retirement home
How young and old benefit from living side by side
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Surgery in a backpack
We find out about a portable operating theatre that could revolutionise health treatment
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Transforming life in cities
Creating safe and comfortable living spaces in one of the poorest parts of Mumbai, India
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The power of play
We visit the children鈥檚 playground where parents aren鈥檛 allowed
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Digging deep to help farmers
A new farming method is having a dramatic effect on crop yields in Malawi
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Flower power
Exploring innovative solutions to flower waste from temples in India
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Front Yard floods
New Orleans residents are fighting the flood waters, one yard at a time
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A washing machine solution
The Sikh engineer who invented a hand crank, off-grid washing machine for his neighbour
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Speaking out
Solutions helping people who struggle to communicate
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Safer streets in Cairo
Can redesigning parts of Cairo make the city's streets safer for women?
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How seaweed is surprisingly useful
From powering cars to feeding farm animals, how using seaweed more can help the planet
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Being better citizens
How two projects in Portugal are seeking to bolster people's participation in society.
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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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Cutting food waste
The innovative 'smart sensors' that could cut waste and feeding fish with whisky waste
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The traffic lights tackling poverty
We visit an innovative project in Paraguay which helps people improve their lives
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What to do with stray animals
How the numbers of stray dogs - and feral pigeons - are being controlled in urban areas
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Making hospitals kinder for kids
How clowns and consoles are making a stay in hospital a bit easier for unwell youngsters