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Checking in with the Problem Solvers

We update you on stories from 2018 including a plan to catch junk in space

• 33 mins

Does the world need more babies?

Campaigns in countries with low birth rates are trying to get people to have more babies

• 23 mins

The Talent Show for Honest People

In the Integrity Idol talent show, it doesn鈥檛 matter if you can sing or dance

• 23 mins

The Turkish App to Help Autistic Children Learn

Can these games help autistic children get the right education?

• 23 mins

The shopping mall where everything is recycled

A shopping mall in Sweden only sells recycled items, thanks to its clever location

• 24 mins

How Nepal Doubled its Tiger Population

Over the past 10 years, Nepal has almost doubled its population of Bengal tigers

• 24 mins

鈥楴o Men Allowed鈥� 鈥� The Gym Getting Women Fit and into Work

A single-sex gym in Turkey is helping women exercise and become entrepreneurs

• 22 mins

Predicting suicide

How machine learning could be used to predict who will take their own life

• 25 mins

Turning old clothes into new ones

Could dissolving mountains of old clothes help create material for new ones?

• 24 mins

Last video messages to help children grieve

Making precious video memories for children

• 23 mins

Crossing divides in Cyprus

Could a centre in the buffer zone that divides Cyprus bring two communities together?

• 23 mins

The digital detectives tackling child sexual abuse

Meet the online volunteers helping Europol track down child abusers and their victims

• 22 mins

Can phages save us as antibiotics stop working?

How phages 鈥� viruses that kill bacteria 鈥� are saving lives.

• 23 mins

The mums saving each other from a taboo condition

Women who have had surgery for fistula are making sure others get life-changing treatment

• 23 mins

The great mosquito swap

Scientists are hoping to stop diseases spreading by changing the mosquito population

• 23 mins

DNA tests for dogs to tackle problem poo

US residents fed up with dog mess are using a high-tech solution

• 22 mins

The reuse and refill revolution

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

• 23 mins

The tree detectives tackling illegal logging

Scientists are building a database to help them tell exactly where wood has come from

• 24 mins

Could a device invented in the 1930s help end period poverty?

The people hoping to use sanitary pad micro-factories and silicone cups to help women

• 22 mins

Working Less For The Same Pay

Some companies are cutting the hours their staff work but keeping their pay the same

• 24 mins

Reinventing the ranch

Can the cattle ranch be updated to fight climate change?

• 24 mins

Audience takeover: Your plastic solutions

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

• 24 mins

Can sleep deprivation help treat bipolar disorder?

An Italian doctor asks patients to stay awake all night, to try to allay their depression

• 24 mins

Can capturing carbon buy us time to tackle climate change?

The projects that are trying to take CO2 out of the atmosphere

• 22 mins

Portugal, drugs and decriminalisation

In 2001 Portugal decriminalised personal drug use to tackle a heroin crisis.

• 24 mins

Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor

Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations

• 22 mins

Residents turn detective to fight crime

Neighbours in the US are using cameras that read car number plates to cut crime

• 22 mins

The school that puts wellbeing first

One primary school has found a way to deliver therapy to about 10% of its students

• 23 mins

Trieste鈥檚 mental health 鈥榬evolution鈥�

How Italy鈥檚 radical decision to close its mental asylums shaped the way we think today

• 24 mins

Stopping child marriage with solar lanterns

Solar-powered lamps are giving girls independence and stopping them becoming child brides

• 24 mins