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

Malaria kills more than half a million people per year. We meet the innovators who are using buildin

Using VR to change lives

2022/2/1

Virtual Reality is being used by researchers around the world to change people’s lives – helping the

Could a video game where you pretend to spread Covid misinformation actually make you less susceptib

A Ugandan chemist has found a way to use old cattle bones and food waste to make clean water.Timothy

How are Covid sniffer dogs, a sturdy bicycle scheme and balloons beaming down the internet getting o

Scientists are checking up on the health of forests by analysing the sounds in them. They test the

Training cows to use the toilet and a bouncy castle that fights climate change are some of the surpr

Meet the innovators who want to change gig work for the better.When we order a pizza on a Friday nig

Hundreds of millions of people don’t have access to electricity. But all over the world, people are

A simple system for saving food and empowering women on the show today. Hundreds of millions of tonn

Floating solar panels and a see-through pyramid are the solutions this week. The sun is the ultima

CubeSats are small but mighty. They started as an educational toy in 1999, but now help people tackl

The 15-minute city

2021/11/16

Everything you need on your doorstep: a radical plan to improve our cities. Imagin

Climate change is set to alter our planet and human beings need to change the way we live and work.

Sixteen percent of greenhouse gas emissions could be saved by using biochar, a simple fertilising te

Fake medicines are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide each year. But inventor

Signs that connect to a mobile phone app, which then reads the information out loud, are appearing i

Apart of Me is a computer game that has been designed to help young people process grief. It’s par

Robots on the beat

2021/10/5

Police forces in the US are turning to futuristic technology to tackle a rise in violent crime and m

Irrigation pipes have been designed to double as mid-air walkways to help slow lorises cross open fa