People Fixing the World

Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better pl

Episodes

Total: 413

Women in a village in Northern Nigeria have come up with an emergency transport scheme that is savin

Making meat in a lab

2020/12/15

Imagine if the meat we ate was all grown in shiny silver vats, with no animals harmed in the process

Building with fungi

2020/12/8

Companies are growing light and durable packaging from mycelium that is easy to compost. Another tea

A new kind of solar cell - made by drying a special liquid on a surface - is being heralded as a rev

Riding the solar railway

2020/11/24

Can you make the railways greener by powering trains with energy from the sun? We hear about the pio

Why former criminals are being chosen for jobs at hundreds of companies in a small US city.One boss

Audience members praise and pick holes in solutions we’ve covered. Nick Holland and Kat Hawkins hear

Teenage inventor special

2020/11/3

In this inspiring episode, we hear ideas from high school students in Asia, Africa, Europe and Ameri

The mass stranding of dolphins, orcas and whales is depressingly common. We join a team on the East

What happens when you take a little box containing some of the vast knowledge amassed on the interne

How jellyfish can help us

2020/10/13

Jellyfish blooms can cause havoc, scaring away tourists, clogging up fishing nets, and even getting

A growing number of police departments in the US are introducing a new concept in their training - t

Getting rid of AI bias

2020/9/29

It’s not just search engines that are powered by artificial intelligence. From the courts to the job

How to prevent drowning

2020/9/22

We hear how AI lifeguards are helping to spot danger on Israel’s beaches, while on Lake Victoria spe

Old smartphones powered by solar panels are being used to catch illegal loggers in rainforests acros

A happier planet

2020/9/8

Looking for the happiest places in the world. We follow in the tracks of someone who gave up his job

Keeping data forever

2020/9/1

Could your family photos end up being stored on a piece of glass? Might you find yourself saving a f

Period poverty affects girls and women across the world who can’t afford to buy sanitary pads or tam

"Get rid of the girl who smells" - this is the reaction thousands of traumatised new mothers face ev

Monitoring devices implanted in a person’s chest are helping doctors predict if something is about t