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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The dogs that bring hope
Last Tuesday
Rescued street dogs in Uganda help survivors find comfort, healing and renewed hope
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How to thrive with ADHD
Tue 19 May 2026
How home and work can be adapted to improve life for people with ADHD
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Saving Chile's urban wetlands
Tue 12 May 2026
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.
People fixing the world on YouTube
Watch stories of people changing their world on the World Service English YouTube channel
