People Fixing the World Podcast
Brilliant solutions to the world’s 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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Training police to patrol each other
Tue 15 Feb 2022
How do you get officers to step in to prevent acts of police brutality?
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Using VR to change lives
Tue 1 Feb 2022
How virtual reality is helping tackle phobias and resolve conflict
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How to fight fake health news
Tue 25 Jan 2022
Can playing a video game ‘inoculate’ your mind against medical misinformation?
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Making clean water with rubbish
Tue 18 Jan 2022
The chemist using old bones and food waste to make clean drinking water
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Catching up with our solution seekers
Tue 11 Jan 2022
How are Covid dogs, a sturdy bicycle scheme and balloons beaming the internet getting on?
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The forest sound detectives
Tue 4 Jan 2022
How scientists check the health of a forest by listening to it
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The moo loo and other stories
Tue 28 Dec 2021
Training cows to use the toilet and a bouncy castle that fights climate change
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Creating an alternative gig economy
Tue 21 Dec 2021
Meet the innovators who want to change gig work for the better
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How to make electricity for your neighbours
Tue 14 Dec 2021
The energy microgrid that started with scrap metal and an old bicycle
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Food waste: The solar dryer solution
Tue 7 Dec 2021
A simple system for saving food and empowering women
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Ways to save the planet: Using the sun
Tue 30 Nov 2021
Using floating solar panels and a see-through pyramid to help the climate
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The tiny satellites changing how we see Earth
Tue 23 Nov 2021
CubeSats are small but mighty. They track animals, map coral reefs and spot modern slavery
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The 15-minute city
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Everything you need on your doorstep: a radical plan to improve our cities
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COP26: The tech helping you to help the planet
Tue 9 Nov 2021
New technology that could lead to better informed choices on climate change
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Ways to save the planet: Ancient solutions
Tue 2 Nov 2021
We could save 16% of emissions by using biochar, a simple indigenous fertilising method
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How to spot fake drugs with a mobile phone
Tue 26 Oct 2021
Mobile phones and apps are being used to detect fake medicines and save lives
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Talking signs, amazing peas and planes mapping fires
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Innovative solutions for city navigation, plastic waste and forest fires
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Can computer games improve mental health?
Tue 12 Oct 2021
How computer games are being used to help children process grief and powerful emotions
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Robots on the beat
Tue 5 Oct 2021
How police in the US are using tech, including robots, to fight crime
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Helping animals cross the road and other obstacles
Tue 28 Sep 2021
The special bridges that are helping to save slow lorises and reunite rare monkeys
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Saving mums and their unborn babies
Tue 21 Sep 2021
Women in Nigeria have come up with an emergency transport scheme that is saving lives
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The hotel for homeless people
Tue 14 Sep 2021
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, England’s rough sleepers were offered a place to live
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The library where the books are people
Tue 7 Sep 2021
Borrow a stranger for a half-hour chat to challenge your prejudices
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Ways to save the planet: Fridge detectives
Tue 31 Aug 2021
We meet detectives hunting down old fridges to stop greenhouse gases escaping from them
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Ways to save the planet: Swap concrete for wood
Tue 24 Aug 2021
We investigate the power of nature’s own creations to help fix climate change
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The seaweed farmers adapting to warming seas
Tue 17 Aug 2021
How seaweed farmers in Zanzibar are fighting the effects of climate change
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Locust hunters
Tue 10 Aug 2021
People in Kenya have been paid to catch swarms of locusts eating farmers’ crops
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Turning preachers into LGBT allies
Tue 3 Aug 2021
How a group of Kenyans reduced homophobic hate and violence
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The ATMs that dispense clean fuel
Tue 27 Jul 2021
How a start-up in Kenya reinvented the cooking stove
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