People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor
Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations
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Lend Me Your Eyes
How apps and armchair volunteers are helping blind people around the world.
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Learning Lessons from the Longest Living Lands
Can adapting your lifestyle add 10 years to your lifespan?
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Last video messages to help children grieve
Making precious video memories for children
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Kids versus Cars
The movement turning streets into playgrounds
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Kids fixing the world
Clever inventions by children that could improve our lives, from apps to robots
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Keeping the Amazon standing
Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees
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Keeping men healthy
The barbers providing mental health support and the truckers getting help at the roadside
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Keeping medicines cool
How enzymes and earthen pots can help keep medicines safe
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Keeping data forever
Three radical new ways to save data 鈥� in DNA, glass and magnets
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Kangaroo care for premature babies
The simple skin-to-skin approach saving newborn lives
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Kangaroo care for premature babies
The simple skin-to-skin approach saving newborn lives
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Jobs for Syrian Refugees
Why they鈥檙e handing out work permits to refugees in Jordan.
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Jobs for girls
How training women in male dominated professions is changing finances and attitudes
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Introducing: Season 2 of 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter
How animals make us smarter 鈥� we thought you might like to hear our brand new episode
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Insects fixing the world
How flies and bugs can help solve the planet鈥檚 problems
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Improvising Your Way Out of Anxiety
Could this theatre technique help improve mental health?
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Improving our eyesight
We visit a coffee plantation in India to see how the sight of workers is being improved
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How to Talk to Potential Extremists
Can you persuade potential extremists out of their views by chatting to them on Facebook?
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How to store power in soil and salt
Batteries made of building blocks and volcanic rock
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How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods
The innovative fire alarm designed to protect South Africa鈥檚 poorest communities
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How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods
The innovative fire alarm designed to protect South Africa鈥檚 poorest communities
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How to spot fake drugs with a mobile phone
Mobile phones and apps are being used to detect fake medicines and save lives
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How to save the banana
The banana is under threat from a deadly disease. These people are trying to save it.
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How to reuse a demolished building
Can you construct a building by reusing materials from ones that have been knocked down?
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How to put the internet in a box
Inside the 鈥渟neakernet鈥� - the people carrying websites to places that are off the grid
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How to prevent drowning
AI to help lifeguards in Israel and weather forecasts for fishermen on Lake Victoria
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How to move the Earth
The plans to use lasers or asteroids to move our planet away from the sun
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How To Make Sushi From Methane Gas
A new process uses bacteria that eat methane gas to make food.
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How to make fishing nets less destructive
Using underwater sounds and lights so only the fish we want to eat get caught
