BBC Sounds - People Fixing the World - Available Episodes

The magic greenhouse

A greenhouse powered by the wind has made it possible to grow crops on arid land

• 23 mins
• 09 Mar 2021

The secret to making your stuff last longer

Clever ways to persuade people to fix old things instead of throwing them away

• 23 mins
• 02 Mar 2021

Tackling sport’s concussion problem

How the latest technology is helping to tackle head injuries in sport

• 23 mins
• 23 Feb 2021

Beating superbugs

The small team of Indian scientists who think they’ve found a new way to kill superbugs

• 23 mins
• 16 Feb 2021

How to store power in soil and salt

Batteries made of building blocks and volcanic rock

• 23 mins
• 09 Feb 2021

The spacesuits saving mothers’ lives

Suits originally designed for astronauts are helping midwives save lives

• 23 mins
• 26 Jan 2021

A forest down your street

The tiny urban forests bringing nature to the heart of the city

• 23 mins
• 19 Jan 2021

The solutions whisperer

Dhruv Boruah’s mission is to inspire other people to solve problems facing the planet

• 23 mins
• 12 Jan 2021

Can doughnuts save the planet?

Doughnut economics in action - how we can live well and save the planet at the same time

• 23 mins
• 05 Jan 2021

What happened next to our problem solvers

Hydrating sweets for the elderly go on sale and how a housing experiment coped with Covid

• 23 mins
• 29 Dec 2020

Saving mums and their unborn babies

Women in Nigeria have come up with an emergency transport scheme that is saving lives

• 23 mins
• 22 Dec 2020

Making meat in a lab

How meat grown in labs could reduce our environmental impact

• 23 mins
• 15 Dec 2020

Building with fungi

Growing packaging, coffins and whole houses out of eco-friendly mycelium

• 23 mins
• 08 Dec 2020

Perovskites: The future of solar?

A new kind of solar cell is made by drying a special liquid on a surface

• 23 mins
• 01 Dec 2020

Riding the solar railway

How to make train journeys greener using the power of the sun

• 23 mins
• 24 Nov 2020

From prison to star employee

Why former criminals are being chosen for jobs at hundreds of companies in a small US city

• 23 mins
• 17 Nov 2020

Audience takeover: Your questions answered

Answers to your questions about regrowing the rainforest and other stories we’ve covered

• 23 mins
• 10 Nov 2020

Teenage inventor special

Brilliant ideas from school kids to help solve crime, make life safer and much more

• 23 mins
• 03 Nov 2020

Saving Cape Cod’s dolphins

Saving dolphins from stranding on beaches - we meet the team improving survival rates

• 23 mins
• 27 Oct 2020

How to put the internet in a box

Inside the “sneakernet” - the people carrying websites to places that are off the grid

• 23 mins
• 20 Oct 2020