BBC Sounds - People Fixing the World - Available Episodes

Shred it yourself: The DIY plastic recyclers

Machines to shred, melt and mould waste plastic are popping up around the world

• 23 mins
• 13 Apr 2021

Helping animals cross the road and other obstacles

The special bridges that are helping to save slow lorises and reunite rare monkeys

• 23 mins
• 06 Apr 2021

Watching out for Gran with help from her toaster

How we could improve care for the elderly by monitoring their use of home appliances

• 23 mins
• 30 Mar 2021

How to reuse a demolished building

Can you construct a building by reusing materials from ones that have been knocked down?

• 23 mins
• 23 Mar 2021

Using satellite photos to help distribute cash

Togo has found a new way to send emergency cash to people struggling in the pandemic

• 23 mins
• 16 Mar 2021

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

• 24 mins
• 02 Mar 2021

Tackling sport’s concussion problem

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

• 24 mins
• 23 Feb 2021

Beating superbugs

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

• 25 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 breath of life

A clever way to provide life-saving oxygen

• 24 mins
• 02 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

• 24 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

• 24 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

• 24 mins
• 22 Dec 2020

Making meat in a lab

How meat grown in labs could reduce our environmental impact

• 24 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