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
-
![]()
Our favourite solutions
Today
Presenter Myra Anubi and the team chat about some of their favourite projects of the year
-
![]()
Saving mothers with portable ultrasound
Last Tuesday
How technological innovations are helping with the health of new mothers
-
![]()
Rethinking dyslexia
Tue 9 Dec 2025
Harnessing the skills of dyslexic people by improving education and understanding
-
![]()
Building empathy and fighting disinformation
Tue 2 Dec 2025
The children learning to understand their emotions better and what to look out for online
-
![]()
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
-
![]()
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
-
![]()
Saving seabirds and squirrels
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Contraceptive in a nutty spread is being developed to control grey squirrels in the UK.
-
![]()
Making organ donation easier
Tue 4 Nov 2025
How technology - and teaching - are being used to tackle shortages of organ donations.
-
![]()
Helping and healing in Sierra Leone
Tue 28 Oct 2025
How community solutions are helping amputees and drug users in the West African nation
-
![]()
Harnessing the wind to keep us cool
Tue 21 Oct 2025
How Stuttgart in Germany has inspired other cities to use their natural airflow
-
![]()
Alaska's wild solutions
Tue 14 Oct 2025
The island powered by renewables - and how mushrooms could be the future of insulation
-
![]()
The preschool in a retirement home
Tue 7 Oct 2025
How young and old can benefit from living side by side
-
![]()
Surgery in a backpack
Tue 30 Sep 2025
We find out about a portable operating theatre that could revolutionise health treatment
-
![]()
Transforming life in cities
Tue 23 Sep 2025
Creating safe and comfortable living spaces in one of the poorest parts of Mumbai, India
-
![]()
-
![]()
Digging deep to help farmers
Tue 9 Sep 2025
An innovative new farming method is having a dramatic effect on crop yields in Malawi.
-
![]()
-
![]()
Front Yard Floods
Tue 26 Aug 2025
New Orleans residents are fighting the flood waters, one yard at a time
-
![]()
A Washing Machine Solution
Tue 19 Aug 2025
The hand crank, off grid machine designed to help the billions who still handwash clothes
-
![]()
-
![]()
Safer streets in Cairo
Wed 6 Aug 2025
Can redesigning parts of Cairo make the city's streets safer for women?
-
![]()
How seaweed is surprisingly useful
Tue 29 Jul 2025
From powering cars to feeding farm animals, how using seaweed more can help the planet.
-
![]()
Being better citizens
Tue 22 Jul 2025
How two projects in Portugal are seeking to bolster people's participation in society.
-
![]()
Saving mothers and babies
Tue 15 Jul 2025
We hear about the low-cost incubators that can run on a battery and a bottle of water.
-
![]()
Cutting food waste
Tue 8 Jul 2025
The innovative 'smart labels' on food packaging and feeding fish with whisky waste
-
![]()
The traffic lights tackling poverty
Tue 1 Jul 2025
We visit an innovative project in Paraguay that helps people improve their lives
-
![]()
What to do with stray animals
Tue 24 Jun 2025
How the numbers of stray dogs - and feral pigeons - can be kept down kindly
-
![]()
Making hospitals kinder for kids
Tue 17 Jun 2025
How clowns and consoles are making a stay in hospital a bit easier for unwell youngsters.
-
![]()
Making life easier for older people
Tue 10 Jun 2025
We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.
-
![]()
Shipping containers fixing the world
Tue 3 Jun 2025
How the metal boxes can be re-engineered in surprising and useful ways
People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
