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
- 2024-11-12 15:23
- last episode published
- 2024-11-12 01:00
- publication frequency
- 7.13 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
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- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 410
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Episodes
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| 2024-11-12 | Powered chairs offer people with limited mobility the chance to be independent, since they can be controlled with an array of switches and pads. For some people though, unpredictable muscle spasms mean that driving can be time-consuming, stressful or d... |
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| 2024-11-05 | Madagascar is the second-largest island nation in the world, similar in size to France or Texas. Lying off the coast of southern Africa, it’s home to nearly 30 million people and is a real biodiversity hotspot. Nearly 90 percent of its plants and anima... |
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| 2024-10-29 | In 2019 a group of prison officers from Philadelphia in the US spent three weeks working in jails across Scandinavia - in order to see whether their more humane approach to custody could work back at home.Five years on we visit SCI Chester’s ‘Little Sc... |
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| 2024-10-22 | 2024 has been called a record breaking year for elections, with billions of people eligible to take part in all types of votes. But how can we make sure people can vote safely and securely?We visit Australia's Northern Territory to see how voting takes... |
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| 2024-10-15 | TV BRA in Norway is a unique media organisation. Their fortnightly national news show is presented by reporters who have learning disabilities or are autistic. Through interviews with politicians and other authority figures the station aims to hold the... |
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| 2024-10-08 | How can people get much needed health services as they go about their daily lives? We’re back in Kenya where we visit a barbers shop that offers mental health advice and support alongside the trim and shave. And we check out a truck stop just outside N... |
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| 2024-10-01 | The health of shorelines around the world is under threat like never before. We look at efforts being made in the UK to tackle some of the challenges posed by overfishing and climate change. We travel to Yorkshire in northern England to meet the scient... |
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| 2024-09-24 | The Awajun people have lived in the Amazon rainforest for thousands of years but their way of life and environment is under threat from deforestation and unsustainable farming. Now Awajun women farmers have begun mixing old traditions with new technolo... |
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| 2024-09-17 | Half of the world's population don't have access to essential healthcare, according to the World Health Organisation. And even in highly developed countries many still lose out. This week on People Fixing The World we hear about some ideas that aim to ... |
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| 2024-09-10 | Presenter Myra Anubi visits western Kenya to see an innovative project that’s using hi-tech drones to deliver HIV drugs and testing kits. It’s an attempt to tackle the number of infections amongst young adults in the region. The drones are dropping HIV... |
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