Podcast Episodes

Empowering the LGBT community

**This episode contains one instance of offensive language

How two projects in Kenya and Spain are helping LGBT communities.

Setting up a business can …

4 months, 1 week ago

The Kindergarten makeover

How mums are helping transform early years education in Ghana.

Pre-school, or early years education, is seen by experts as providing an important foun…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Making cities feel quieter

Cities are getting bigger - and louder. As urban noise increases, we look at how sound itself can be used to make things feel quieter. Myra Anubi vis…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

The power of poetry

Can poetry change how we think, feel and act? We’re looking at how poetry is being used in some innovative and unexpected ways. We’ll hear from the H…

5 months ago

Super seagrass

Seagrass meadows are one of the world’s most valuable underwater habitats. As well as providing food and shelter to thousands of species, seagrass is…

5 months, 1 week 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…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Who cares for the carers?

Millions of people around the world are unpaid carers, providing help for a friend or family member who due to illness or disability cannot cope with…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

The positive power of your peers

Peer support is an often overlooked but important tool that can reduce isolation, increase confidence and complement various health services. We take…

6 months ago

Family Friendly Cities

Cities are growing and developing at a faster rate than at any time in history. More than half the world’s population now live in cities. But cities …

6 months, 1 week ago

Helping prisoners to become better parents

An innovative scheme in Scotland is helping dads in prison become better parents. Myra Anubi visits Barlinnie jail in Glasgow to meet the prisoners t…

6 months, 2 weeks ago