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People Fixing the World — 501 episodes

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How to have better sex

2

The preschool in a retirement home

3

The world's largest wildlife crossing

4

The cows fighting wildfires

5

Stop being a terrible tourist

6

Who does the housework?

7

How to make cities better for everyone

8

How to reuse and repair

9

Finding hidden entrepreneurs

10

Living longer, living better

11

Freeing modern slaves

12

Snakebite solutions

13

Ending violence against women

14

Slow down!

15

The dogs that bring hope

16

How to thrive with ADHD

17

Saving Chile's urban wetlands

18

The SafeBox

19

The secrets of greywater

20

Arrows of hope

21

Back from the brink: Uganda’s gentle giants

22

Fashion without barriers

23

Empowering the LGBT community

24

The Kindergarten makeover

25

Making cities feel quieter

26

The power of poetry

27

Super seagrass

28

The school run by kids

29

Who cares for the carers?

30

The positive power of your peers

31

Family Friendly Cities

32

Helping prisoners to become better parents

33

Wild horses

34

No brother left behind

35

Can AI power a green fashion revolution?

36

Making friends in Sweden

37

Our favourite solutions

38

Saving mothers with portable ultrasound

39

Rethinking dyslexia

40

Building empathy and fighting disinformation

41

Preserving Peru’s food heritage

42

How literacy can change a life

43

Saving seabirds and squirrels

44

Making organ donation easier

45

Helping and healing in Sierra Leone

46

Harnessing the wind to keep us cool

47

Alaska's wild solutions

48

The preschool in a retirement home

49

Surgery in a backpack

50

Transforming life in cities

51

The power of play

52

Digging deep to help farmers

53

Flower Power

54

Front Yard Floods

55

A Washing Machine Solution

56

Speaking out

57

Safer streets in Cairo

58

How seaweed is surprisingly useful

59

Being better citizens

60

Saving mothers and babies

61

Saving mothers and babies

62

Cutting food waste

63

The traffic lights tackling poverty

64

What to do with stray animals

65

Making hospitals kinder for kids

66

Making life easier for older people

67

Shipping containers fixing the world

68

Malawi's waste warriors

69

Working with our minds

70

Helping Chile's stolen children

71

The classroom tablet revolution

72

Tackling bias in health

73

Gadgets for blind people

74

How sport can bring outsiders in

75

Recovery for all

76

Radioactive rhinos

77

Building a clinic to save a forest

78

Helping the children of sex workers

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79

Fishing trash from our oceans

80

Renewable kids on the block

81

The artificial limbs bringing hope in Gaza

82

How to have better sex

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83

Making money go further

84

Improving our eyesight

85

Sharing the river

86

We're coming back for 2025!

87

Restoring nature for all

88

Our favourite solutions

89

The cows fighting wildfires

90

Reducing gun violence

91

Cleaning up India's streets

92

Coconuts fixing the world

93

Sorting extreme waste

94

A wheelchair that learns

95

The race to save Madagascar's biodiversity

96

The jails where they do things differently

97

Fixing elections - for the better

98

The pioneering TV news service

99

Keeping men healthy

100

Saving Britain's sea life

101

The power of native knowledge

102

Hopping aboard the hospital train

103

The medicines dropping from the sky

104

Our favourite climate solutions

105

Switching off our smartphones

106

Greener ways to keep cool

107

Olympic-sized solutions

108

Protecting wildlife from human activity

109

Rethinking mental health

110

Africa's best new innovators

111

Making tourism work for everyone

112

Saving water at a time of scarcity

113

What to do with an empty mall?

114

Fashion without barriers

115

Solving Mexico City's water crisis

116

Living with climate change

117

The school run by kids

118

Fighting sexism in society

119

Restoring California's underwater forests

120

Kangaroo care for premature babies

121

Redefining luxury fashion

122

How literacy can change a life

123

The power of music

124

Greener ways to feed the world

125

Magic mushrooms and mental health

126

Speaking up at work

127

Clever ways to get kids learning

128

Bringing dead languages back to life

129

Making life easier for older people

130

Overcoming stigma

131

Rewilding Earth

132

Keeping the Amazon standing

133

Fake birds and other stories

134

Making landfill less awful

135

The country tackling loneliness

136

Building a clinic to save a forest

137

The plastic eaters

138

Fighting period poverty

139

Sharing the river

140

Training heroin users to save their friends

141

Disaster zone innovators

142

Sea cucumbers fixing the world

143

Stopping suicide

144

AI for good

145

Coconuts fixing the world

146

Surviving earthquakes

147

Shockwaves for the heart

148

Genetic problem-solving

149

Female farmers fighting sexism

150

Surprising solar

151

The bubble barrier cleaning up rivers

152

Eating invasive species

153

The game that fixes cities

154

The power of a backstory

155

Fighting the heat

156

Turning mud into ‘clean’ concrete

157

Palm oil that’s better for wildlife

158

Catching the ‘bike bus’

159

What to do with an empty mall?

160

Helping elephants and humans get along

161

Dementia friendly neighbourhoods

162

Making peace with nature

163

Menopause mentors

164

Fighting corruption in schools

165

The hidden powers of bacteria

166

Work: Access for all

167

Kangaroo care for premature babies

168

Sports fan solutions

169

The people fixing childcare

170

Stopping harassment on public transport

171

Endometriosis: The search for solutions

172

Challenging attitudes to disability

173

Getting refugees out of tents

174

Sea cucumbers fixing the world

175

The ring that could help save women’s lives

176

Turning waste into power

177

The healing power of forests

178

Plants fighting pollution

179

Bringing dead languages back to life

180

Fighting the megadrought

181

Micro-homes and sobercoins

182

Grannies fixing the world

183

Board games fixing the world

184

Sleep solutions

185

The body suit that stops muscle spasms

186

The World Cup of football solutions

187

Jobs for girls

188

COP27: Growing a forest the right way

189

Picking up healthcare with the litter

190

Albatrosses and oysters fixing the world

191

Educating refugees

192

Sustainability in death

193

Ending road deaths

194

Dads on duty

195

The food waste warriors

196

How to get people eating less meat

197

Robots on the beat

198

Hands-Off Health Tech

199

What 3D printing can fix

200

What 3D printing can fix

201

Fighting fashion waste

202

How to fix democracy

203

Getting refugees out of tents

204

Using finance to fight homelessness

205

Saving kids with cancer

206

The power of group therapy

207

Keeping medicines cool

208

The future of wind power

209

Getting kids out of institutions

210

Racing to get kids reading

211

The library where the books are people

212

Safer cities for women

213

Helping teenagers become good mums

214

Turning mud into ‘clean’ concrete

215

Robots fixing sewers

216

Using lotteries to make us better people

217

Work: Access for all

218

Sponge cities that fight flooding

219

Turning tyres into cheap fuel & football pitches

220

Saving California’s butterflies

221

How to make fishing nets less destructive

222

Making hospitals less stressful

223

Using haircuts to fight oil spills

224

Insects fixing the world

225

Prison Voicemail: Messages from behind bars

226

Violent partners: The ‘window’ strategy

227

Training police to patrol each other

228

The house that fights malaria

229

Using VR to change lives

230

How to fight fake health news

231

Making clean water with rubbish

232

Catching up with our solution seekers

233

The forest sound detectives

234

The moo loo and other stories

235

Creating an alternative gig economy

236

How to make electricity for your neighbours

237

Food waste: The solar dryer solution

238

Ways to save the planet: Using the sun

239

The tiny satellites changing how we see Earth

240

The 15-minute city

241

COP26: The tech helping you to help the planet

242

Ways to save the planet: Ancient solutions

243

How to spot fake drugs with a mobile phone

244

Talking signs, amazing peas and planes mapping fires

245

Can computer games improve mental health?

246

Robots on the beat

247

Helping animals cross the road and other obstacles

248

Saving mums and their unborn babies

249

The hotel for homeless people

250

The library where the books are people

251

Ways to save the planet: Fridge detectives

252

Ways to save the planet: Swap concrete for wood

253

The seaweed farmers adapting to warming seas

254

Locust hunters

255

Turning preachers into LGBT allies

256

The ATMs that dispense clean fuel

257

Introducing: Season 2 of 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

258

Unsung victories in the fight against disease

259

How five friends can change a refugee’s life

260

The great mosquito swap

261

The career where it helps to have a criminal past

262

Test-tube rhinos

263

Smashing the glass ceiling for young Africans

264

The helpline for jealous and violent men

265

Turning the desert green

266

Catching up with the problem solvers

267

Regrowing the rainforest

268

Turning oil platforms into reefs

269

The forest sound detectives

270

The detection dogs tracking poachers and Covid-19

271

Pedal power: How bicycles can change lives

272

Shred it yourself: The DIY plastic recyclers

273

Helping animals cross the road and other obstacles

274

Watching out for Gran with help from her toaster

275

How to reuse a demolished building

276

Using satellite photos to help distribute cash

277

The magic greenhouse

278

The secret to making your stuff last longer

279

Tackling sport’s concussion problem

280

Beating superbugs

281

How to store power in soil and salt

282

The breath of life

283

The spacesuits saving mothers’ lives

284

A forest down your street

285

The solutions whisperer

286

Can doughnuts save the planet?

287

What happened next to our problem solvers

288

Saving mums and their unborn babies

289

Making meat in a lab

290

Building with fungi

291

Perovskites: The future of solar?

292

Riding the solar railway

293

From prison to star employee

294

Audience takeover: Your questions answered

295

Teenage inventor special

296

Saving Cape Cod’s dolphins

297

How to put the internet in a box

298

How jellyfish can help us

299

Training police to patrol each other

300

Getting rid of AI bias

301

How to prevent drowning

302

Smartphones saving the rainforest

303

A happier planet

304

Keeping data forever

305

Could a device invented in the 1930s help end period poverty?

306

The mums saving each other from a taboo condition

307

The tech doctors forecasting heart failure

308

Prison Voicemail: Messages from behind bars

309

Financing the forests

310

Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor

311

New uses for old solutions

312

How to get everyone online

313

A future without bees

314

How tech is tackling wildlife trafficking

315

Personality tests for loans

316

Kids fixing the world

317

No more bosses

318

The ancient technology getting a second wind

319

Electricity that grows on trees

320

The breath of life

321

A Sporting Chance

322

The great spreadsheet in the sky

323

The farmers moving their fields indoors

324

Making the world a quieter place

325

The big transport swap

326

Regrowing the rainforest

327

The treasure in our toilets

328

How to be a better dad

329

How they’re saving the kakapo

330

Audience takeover: Your feedback

331

A safe place to be gay

332

Meet the neighbours

333

The good lads

334

The miracle cure: Exercise

335

Fighting depression together

336

Running to do good

337

Forecasting volcanoes

338

The pharmacists fighting high drug prices

339

How to move the Earth

340

Checking in with the problem solvers

341

Making your deliveries greener

342

Convicting more rapists

343

Turning kids into entrepreneurs

344

Saving the World’s Ice

345

Stopping abuse with protection dogs

346

How to stop fires destroying whole neighbourhoods

347

How to save the banana

348

The future of freight

349

Gaming for good

350

The town rethinking the future of energy

351

Shopping for a better life

352

Turning waste into energy

353

Spotting the sound of a cardiac arrest

354

The snakebite squad

355

Meeting Colombia’s ‘Violentologist’

356

A new way to detect an invisible poison in water

357

Oysters to the rescue

358

The concrete cleaners

359

Bangladesh’s biker girls

360

Putting a price on carbon

361

A simple way to help a relative if they’re arrested

362

Stopping child marriage with solar lanterns

363

Trieste’s mental health ‘revolution’

364

The school that puts wellbeing first

365

Residents turn detective to fight crime

366

Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor

367

Portugal, drugs and decriminalisation

368

Can capturing carbon buy us time to tackle climate change?

369

Can sleep deprivation help treat bipolar disorder?

370

Audience takeover: Your plastic solutions

371

Reinventing the ranch

372

Working Less For The Same Pay

373

Could a device invented in the 1930s help end period poverty?

374

The tree detectives tackling illegal logging

375

The reuse and refill revolution

376

DNA tests for dogs to tackle problem poo

377

The great mosquito swap

378

The mums saving each other from a taboo condition

379

Can phages save us as antibiotics stop working?

380

The digital detectives tackling child sexual abuse

381

Crossing divides in Cyprus

382

Last video messages to help children grieve

383

Turning old clothes into new ones

384

Predicting suicide

385

‘No Men Allowed’ – The Gym Getting Women Fit and into Work

386

How Nepal Doubled its Tiger Population

387

The shopping mall where everything is recycled

388

The Turkish App to Help Autistic Children Learn

389

The Talent Show for Honest People

390

Does the world need more babies?

391

Checking in with the Problem Solvers

392

The Little Libraries Bringing Books into People’s Homes

393

Can US Entrepreneurs Help Fix Education in Africa?

394

Can This Smart Street Stop Drinkers Getting Violent?

395

How 'Buddy Benches' are Making Playtime Less Lonely

396

Smart Boats That Sail on a Bed of Bubbles

397

The Banks That Run on Time Instead of Money

398

How to Build a City for an Ageing Population

399

The Country That Can Jail You For Using Plastic Bags

400

Time to Update the Stranger Danger Message?

401

Tech That Tricks the Brain

402

‘Rental sisters’ for Japan’s Reclusive Young Men

403

Fighting the ‘Water Mafia’ with Pipes in the Sky

404

Mending Our Disposable Culture

405

Smart Stimulation for People with Dementia

406

Running and Singing to Improve Maths and English

407

A Green Space Revolution in Paris

408

Scanning Homeless People To Make a Donation

409

Rewarding Green Travel in Bologna

410

Cool Ways of Keeping Things Cool

411

Reviving Italy’s ‘Ghost Towns’

412

Why Millions Listen to This Girl

413

Training India’s Fake Doctors

414

Stopping Wildfires in Their Tracks

415

Generating Power from the Roads

416

Recycling to Turn Trash into Cash

417

The Bricks Helping to Rebuild Gaza

418

Learning Lessons from the Longest Living Lands

419

Nigeria's Secret STI Test Kits

420

Can a $1 million Prize Help Keep Women Safe?

421

The Street Where Houses Come Half-Built

422

Fighting Food Waste

423

Clean Clothes and Glasses for the Poorest in Society

424

Turning Subsistence Farming into an Investment Opportunity

425

The Speed Detectors

426

The People’s Peace Talks

427

The Schools Trying to Build Bridges

428

Problem-Solving Prizes

429

The Town Trying to Cure Loneliness

430

The Babies Teaching Kindness In Class [REPEAT]

431

Taking Out the Space Trash

432

How to Help Homeless People in Hospital

433

The Bird Rescuers

434

Recycling Chewing Gum Litter to Clean Our Streets

435

How to Talk to Potential Extremists

436

Putting Forgotten Pills Back to Work

437

Improvising Your Way Out of Anxiety

438

The Hydroponics Revolution

439

The Currency Based on Good Deeds

440

The Babies Teaching Kindness in Class

441

Kids versus Cars

442

Can We Save Coral?

443

Checking-in With The Problem Solvers

444

Scouts, Knives and a Community Fridge

445

The Ring That Could Help Save Women’s Lives

446

How to Get Wheelchairs on Planes

447

Drone Delivery: Medicines By Air

448

Smartphone-Activated First Aiders

449

The Former Neo-Nazi Helping Others To Quit

450

How Iceland Saved Its Teenagers

451

The Missing Maps

452

The Town Where Public Toilets Are Everywhere

453

Addressing the World in Three Words

454

How Iceland is Fighting the Gender Pay Gap

455

Viking Therapy?

456

How Cervical ‘Selfies’ are Fighting Cancer in The Gambia

457

How To Make Sushi From Methane Gas

458

When Local Currencies Go Digital

459

Condom Lifesavers and Voices for the Voiceless

460

The Dutch Antibiotic Revolution

461

How to Get Blood Where it is Needed

462

Pakistan’s Laptop Female Doctors

463

Urban Cable Cars

464

Does Universal Basic Income Work?

465

The Teachable Moment

466

Mexico's Cartoon Therapists

467

Cutting Cow Farts to Combat Climate Change

468

Thailand’s Disease Detectives

469

Can We Supercharge School?

470

Turning Fatbergs into Fuel

471

Thailand’s Condom King

472

How To Be A Better Mum In Jail

473

Would You Rent Your Clothes?

474

The Stickers that Save Lives

475

Turning Plastic Trash into Cash

476

Turning Goats into Water

477

Saving Lives with Text Messages

478

Greener In Death

479

Helping Disabled People With Sex

480

The Data Donators

481

Postmen Delivering Kindness to the Elderly

482

The Parent Hack For Cheaper Childcare

483

Toilets in Haiti and Circular Runways

484

Checking out the solar hotel

485

Moving In With Refugees

486

How China is Cleaning its Air

487

The Voter Lottery

488

Denmark’s Food Waste Vigilante

489

Denmark’s Food Waste Vigilante

490

The Sun Water Solution

491

Lend Me Your Eyes

492

The War On Fake News

493

Superblocks To The Rescue?

494

An Unlikely House Share

495

Jobs for Syrian Refugees

496

Respect My Remittances

497

‘Bribing’ Mums To Feed Their Kids

498

Teaching Kids To Think

499

Reducing US Police Shootings

500

Cloud Catchers In Peru

501

Cash Cards For Syrian Refugees