Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFashion without barriers
What we wear helps us express ourselves and communicate to others in the most immediate way. But the tools we frequently use to do that, such as clot…
2 years, 2 months ago
Solving Mexico City's water crisis
Mexico's capital often floods during the rainy season, but paradoxically, it's also running out of water. A large and growing population, along with …
2 years, 2 months ago
Living with climate change
Poorer countries are likely to bear the brunt of the impacts of climate change, with rising temperatures and more unsettled weather leading to greate…
2 years, 2 months ago
The school run by kids
If you could invent a new kind of school what would it look like? What skills would you teach children, and how would the school be run?
On this editi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Fighting sexism in society
Across the world millions of women and girls face discrimination and worse because of their gender. On this edition of People Fixing The World we loo…
2 years, 3 months ago
Restoring California's underwater forests
Often described as underwater rainforests and the “lungs of the ocean”, kelp forests line as much as 25% of the world’s coastlines. They provide impo…
2 years, 3 months ago
Kangaroo care for premature babies
Premature babies often need a lot of expensive specialised care - but that isn’t always available. So, doctors in Colombia are teaching mothers to lo…
2 years, 3 months ago
Redefining luxury fashion
The fashion industry is the third largest manufacturing industry in the world consuming huge amounts of the world’s resources and contributing to gre…
2 years, 3 months ago
How literacy can change a life
Learning to read empowers people, reduces poverty and increases their job chances. Yet more than 700 miliion adults are illiterate, the majority of t…
2 years, 4 months ago
The power of music
We all know about the power of music to change our mood or to make us move. But an increasing body of evidence is showing that music has an amazing a…
2 years, 4 months ago