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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Saving Chile's urban wetlands
Tuesday
We visit the communities in Chile restoring vital meadows in cities and towns
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The secrets of greywater
Tue 28 Apr 2026
How relatively clean water can be reused to tackle water scarcity.
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Back from the brink: Uganda鈥檚 gentle giants
Tue 14 Apr 2026
The eco-tourism that is helping to protect mountain gorillas in Uganda
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Empowering the LGBT community
Tue 31 Mar 2026
How two projects in Kenya and Spain are helping LGBT communities
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The Kindergarten makeover
Tue 24 Mar 2026
How mums are helping transform early years education in Ghana - plus our listener poem!
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Making cities feel quieter
Tue 17 Mar 2026
As urban noise increases, we look at how sound itself can be used to quieten things down
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The power of poetry
Tue 10 Mar 2026
How poetry sparks hope, compassion and connection in surprising places.
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Super seagrass
Tue 3 Mar 2026
The fight to regrow vital seagrass meadows and protect them from climate change.
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The school run by kids
Tue 24 Feb 2026
The Thai school that's proving a model for Thailand and beyond
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Who cares for the carers?
Tue 17 Feb 2026
We hear about projects in Bangladesh and the UK to help give carers a break.
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The positive power of your peers
Tue 10 Feb 2026
The interactive Brazilian game that's helping teenagers help each other
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Family Friendly Cities
Tue 3 Feb 2026
We look at how two cities are trying to improve life for families
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Helping prisoners to become better parents
Tue 27 Jan 2026
An innovative scheme in Scotland is helping dads in prison become better parents.
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Wild horses
Tue 20 Jan 2026
Innovative solutions to the unwieldy population of wild horses in the American West
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No brother left behind
Tue 13 Jan 2026
The apprenticeship scheme that helped the Nigerian Igbo people build generational wealth.
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Can AI power a green fashion revolution?
Tue 6 Jan 2026
Is AI helping to make fashion more sustainable? Or could it make the problem worse?
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Making friends in Sweden
Tue 30 Dec 2025
How buddy schemes and friendship hours are helping people in Sweden make friends
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Our favourite solutions
Tue 23 Dec 2025
Presenter Myra Anubi and the team chat about some of their favourite projects of the year
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Saving mothers with portable ultrasound
Tue 16 Dec 2025
How technological innovations are helping with the health of new mothers
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Rethinking dyslexia
Tue 9 Dec 2025
Harnessing the skills of dyslexic people by improving education and understanding
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Building empathy and fighting disinformation
Tue 2 Dec 2025
The children learning to understand their emotions better and what to look out for online
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Preserving Peru鈥檚 food heritage
Tue 25 Nov 2025
How potatoes and other crops are being nurtured in the face of climate and other threats
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How literacy can change a life
Tue 18 Nov 2025
How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read
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Saving seabirds and squirrels
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Contraceptive in a nutty spread is being developed to control grey squirrels in the UK.
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Making organ donation easier
Tue 4 Nov 2025
How technology - and teaching - are being used to tackle shortages of organ donations.
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Helping and healing in Sierra Leone
Tue 28 Oct 2025
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
Tue 21 Oct 2025
How Stuttgart in Germany has inspired other cities to use their natural airflow
People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
