People Fixing the World
Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04grdbc
- Description
- Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-25 01:39
- last episode published
- 2025-03-25 01:00
- publication frequency
- 7.15 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 427
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Episodes
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| 2025-03-25 | How do you stop people chopping down precious rainforest? In the Indonesian part of Borneo, researchers for a conservation charity discovered that local people were chopping down the rainforest around them for an incredibly understandable reason – they... |
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| 2025-03-18 | In the red light districts of Kolkata, India, there exists an extraordinary youth club. DIKSHA, as it’s known, looks after the children of sex workers when their mothers are working. While they’re at the youth club, girls and boys learn about their rig... |
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| 2025-03-11 | Around the world, rubbish is collecting in our gutters and waterways, with millions of tonnes being washed out to sea every year. As the soup of ocean debris kills and injures millions of marine animals, we look at two projects trying to make a dent in... |
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| 2025-03-04 | Globally, energy production and use is responsible for around 75% of the world’s carbon emissions, with around a third of that on electricity and heat alone. To tackle climate change, we need to get more energy from renewable sources, so this week we’r... |
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| 2025-02-25 | The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one in every 100 people in Gaza have a life-changing injury because of the conflict. It’s currently impossible for most to leave the strip and get medical treatment but a team of Jordanian doctors has ... |
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| 2025-02-18 | Sex is one of the few things in life that is available to everyone and is free. But achieving enjoyable sex is not possible for many. Some people are held back by fear, ignorance or culture - others don’t know or understand their rights around sex. For... |
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| 2025-02-11 | Billions of people struggle to make ends meet a lot of the time. We look at ways in which people who don’t have much money or are in financial distress can make what they do have go further. We visit savings and credit groups which are helping women to... |
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| 2025-02-04 | Many agricultural workers don’t have the eyesight they need for the work they do, affecting both their comfort and their ability to earn more money. They're among the billion plus people who have visual impairments but can't get the assistance they nee... |
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| 2025-01-28 | In the farming community of Los Negros in rural Bolivia, the river is their life and livelihood. So when that river started to dry up, it made life very hard. They blamed the villages upstream for not looking after their precious water.This conflict co... |
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| 2025-01-21 | A quick hello and happy new year from Myra and a preview of some of the great solutions coming up on People Fixing The World. Share our podcast with your friends and family and give them something to cheer about as we look ahead to 2025.People Fixing T... |
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