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

To prevent the worst effects of climate change, we need to massively cut how much carbon we pump int

People diagnosed with bipolar disorder are commonly treated with a variety of drugs. They aren’t alw

We hear what you, our listeners, are doing to tackle the problem of plastic waste. The idea came abo

Reinventing the ranch

2019/5/21

It’s not a good time to be a meat eater. Pressure is growing to tackle climate change – and the liv

Matsuri Takahashi was 24 when she died. She took her own life after doing more than 100 hours overti

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

If you examine the atoms in a piece of wood, you can tell to the nearest 10km where it has come from

Should we reuse and refill plastic packaging to limit the amount being thrown away? Nick Holland lo

The average dog produces about 124kg of poo every year, but not all of that gets picked up and dispo

The great mosquito swap

2019/4/9

Every year, it’s estimated that nearly 400 million people around the world are infected with dengue

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

Tens of thousands of people die every year because bacterial infections are becoming resistant to an

Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, is taking an innovative approach to solving disturbing cri

Cyprus has been divided since 1974, but a community centre is bringing Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cy

Children who lose a parent may struggle to come to terms with this for the rest of their lives. In t

It’s estimated that 400 billion square metres of fabric are made every year – enough to cover German

Predicting suicide

2019/2/19

About 800,000 people take their own lives every year, that’s one person every 40 seconds, according

In 2006, Turkish entrepreneur Bedriye Hülya set up her first women-only gym, b-fit. It’s cheap to jo

Over the past 10 years, Nepal has almost doubled its population of Bengal tigers – it’s estimated th

There are 14 specialist shops at the Retuna shopping mall in Eskilstuna, Sweden, but they all have o