Catching up with our solution seekers episode artwork

EPISODE · Jan 11, 2022 · 24 MIN

Catching up with our solution seekers

from People Fixing the World · host BBC World Service

How are Covid sniffer dogs, a sturdy bicycle scheme and balloons beaming down the internet getting on? We catch up with a few of the projects featured on our programme to see if they are making progress. In the UK we catch up with the sniffer dogs being trained to detect Covid 19. After promising results from a large trial, they’re onto the next stage of training. Meanwhile Wyson in Zambia has extended his bicycle purchase scheme for rural women and even had a bit of help from a BBC World Service audience member. We find out what happened after US company Loon launched giant balloons designed to beam down the internet to rural Kenya. And we hear from Dhruv Boruah, who has turned his attention from running plastic hackathons to a rather unusual underwater project. Produced and presented by Claire Bates Reporters: Richard Kenny and Tom Colls Image: Dhruv Boruah

Episode metadata supplied by the publisher feed · Published Jan 11, 2022

Embed this episode

NOW PLAYING

Catching up with our solution seekers

0:00 24:27

No transcript for this episode yet

We transcribe on demand. Request one and we'll notify you when it's ready — usually under 10 minutes.

No similar episodes found.

No similar podcasts found.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long is this episode of People Fixing the World?

This episode is 24 minutes long.

When was this People Fixing the World episode published?

This episode was published on January 11, 2022.

Can I download this People Fixing the World episode?

Yes. Use the download control on the episode player to save the publisher-provided media file.
URL copied to clipboard!