People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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Olympic-sized solutions
We look at how sport has a unique ability to change people’s lives for the better.
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No more bosses
How do you make work a better place? Get rid of managers, say some companies.
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No more bosses
How do you make work a better place? Get rid of managers, say some companies.
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Nigeria's Secret STI Test Kits
The start-up that allows people to self test for STIs in secret
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New uses for old solutions
How two life-saving apps were adapted to fix problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
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New Podcast: In The Studio
Hear all about our new podcast and discover how the most creative people make their work
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Moving In With Refugees
How young Dutch people and Syrian refugees are becoming housemates.
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Micro-homes and sobercoins
The tiny houses helping homeless people to get off the streets
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Mexico's Cartoon Therapists
How do you get children who're victims of emotional abuse or physical harm to open up?
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Menopause mentors
How women are using cafes, apps and oils to make menopause a little easier
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Mending Our Disposable Culture
Why volunteers are fixing other people’s stuff free of charge
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Meeting Colombia’s ‘Violentologist’
How a doctor in Colombia changed the way cities monitor and prevent violence
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Meet the neighbours
People in these flats promise to spend two hours a week together to tackle loneliness
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Malawi's waste warriors
Presenter Myra Anubi is in Malawi to meet those making the most of the country's waste.
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Making your deliveries greener
Four clever ways to reduce carbon emissions from deliveries
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Making tourism work for everyone
We look at a model of tourism designed to benefit local communities more fairly
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Making the world a quieter place
How sound barriers and noise sensors are helping to make the planet more peaceful
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Making peace with nature
How conservation can be used to build peace
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Making money go further
How savings and credit groups and a cooking at home scheme are helping with money issues
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Making meat in a lab
How meat grown in labs could reduce our environmental impact
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Making life easier for older people
We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.
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Making life easier for older people
We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.
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Making landfill less awful
The people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture
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Making hospitals less stressful
How leaves, lights, sounds and goats can improve patient health
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Making hospitals kinder for kids
How clowns and consoles are making a stay in hospital a bit easier for unwell youngsters.
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Making clean water with rubbish
The chemist using old bones and food waste to make clean drinking water
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Magic mushrooms and mental health
Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?
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Locust hunters
People in Kenya have been paid to catch swarms of locusts eating farmers’ crops
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Living with climate change
We go to El Salvador to look at projects tackling the effects of rising temperatures.
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Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor
Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations