Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUsing haircuts to fight oil spills
When you get your hair cut, you probably don't think much about what happens to the bits that get chopped off.
But it turns out that rather than being…
4 years, 4 months ago
Insects fixing the world
From an industrial-scale fly factory in London to farming bugs in the Madagascan rainforest, insects are being put to work all around the world. T…
4 years, 5 months ago
Prison Voicemail: Messages from behind bars
The Prison Voicemail app connects inmates and their families, helping them stay in touch throughout a sentence. We hear a mum and daughter using th…
4 years, 5 months ago
Violent partners: The ‘window’ strategy
Police in Iceland treat domestic violence differently.
Leaving an abusive relationship is hard, and many victims stay with physically or mentally hurt…
4 years, 5 months ago
Training police to patrol each other
How do you get officers to step in to prevent other officers from harming the public? “Loyalty isn't saying: ‘Well, you've done something wrong, I'…
4 years, 5 months ago
The house that fights malaria
Malaria kills more than half a million people per year. We meet the innovators who are using buildings, lights, genes and vaccines to fight the mosqu…
4 years, 6 months ago
Using VR to change lives
Virtual Reality is being used by researchers around the world to change people’s lives – helping them confront their own fears and change how they tr…
4 years, 6 months ago
How to fight fake health news
Could a video game where you pretend to spread Covid misinformation actually make you less susceptible to real-life fake news? Fake news, conspirac…
4 years, 6 months ago
Making clean water with rubbish
A Ugandan chemist has found a way to use old cattle bones and food waste to make clean water.
Timothy Kayondo turns the rubbish into activated carbon,…
4 years, 6 months ago
Catching up with our solution seekers
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 feature…
4 years, 7 months ago