Restoring California's underwater forests
We look at projects helping protect and restore kelp along the coastline of California
- 23 mins
- 30 Apr 2024
BBC Sounds - People Fixing the World - Available Episodes
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.
Episodes (381 Available)
Kangaroo care for premature babiesThe simple skin-to-skin approach saving newborn lives
- 23 mins
- 23 Apr 2024
Redefining luxury fashionThe luxury products that love the planet.
- 22 mins
- 16 Apr 2024
How literacy can change a lifeHow an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read
- 22 mins
- 09 Apr 2024
The power of musicInnovative ways that music can ease pain and bring people together.
- 22 mins
- 02 Apr 2024
Greener ways to feed the worldHow lab-brewed dairy and urban food forests can tackle climate change and hunger
- 23 mins
- 26 Mar 2024
Magic mushrooms and mental healthCould psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?
- 23 mins
- 19 Mar 2024
Speaking up at workWe look at how to raise concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace
- 23 mins
- 12 Mar 2024
Clever ways to get kids learningWe look at innovative educational solutions in Senegal, Ghana and Pakistan.
- 23 mins
- 05 Mar 2024
Bringing dead languages back to lifeHow do you revive a language with no living speakers?
- 24 mins
- 27 Feb 2024
Making life easier for older peopleWe're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.
- 23 mins
- 20 Feb 2024
Overcoming stigmaThe communities in Nigeria and India changing mindsets
- 23 mins
- 13 Feb 2024
Rewilding EarthHow beavers, bison and jaguars may help rebalance ecosystems
- 23 mins
- 06 Feb 2024
Keeping the Amazon standingMaking a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees
- 23 mins
- 30 Jan 2024
Fake birds and other storiesThis week a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023.
- 23 mins
- 26 Dec 2023
Making landfill less awfulThe people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture
- 23 mins
- 19 Dec 2023
The country tackling lonelinessHow the Netherlands is making a serious attempt to tackle something we can all feel
- 23 mins
- 12 Dec 2023
Building a clinic to save a forestHow cut price health treatment has helped reduce logging in Borneo
- 24 mins
- 05 Dec 2023
The plastic eatersThe hungry enzymes that might just be the solution to plastic pollution.
- 23 mins
- 28 Nov 2023
Fighting period povertyHow hand-stitched pads and a comic book are trying to make women’s lives better
- 23 mins
- 21 Nov 2023
