Podcast Episodes

A happier planet

Looking for the happiest places in the world. We follow in the tracks of someone who gave up his job to cycle round the world to investigate happines…

5 years, 11 months ago

Keeping data forever

Could your family photos end up being stored on a piece of glass? Might you find yourself saving a file to DNA storage? Or downloading a video from a…

5 years, 11 months ago

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

Period poverty affects girls and women across the world who can’t afford to buy sanitary pads or tampons each month. So what are the alternatives?

In…

5 years, 11 months ago

The mums saving each other from a taboo condition

"Get rid of the girl who smells" - this is the reaction thousands of traumatised new mothers face every year because of a condition called fistula.

B…

5 years, 11 months ago

The tech doctors forecasting heart failure

Monitoring devices implanted in a person’s chest are helping doctors predict if something is about to go wrong with a patient’s heart. Sometimes they…

6 years 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 t…

6 years ago

Financing the forests

Protecting the rainforest could make people millions of dollars under a pioneering new scheme.

Bankers and conservationists have teamed up to regrow a…

6 years ago

Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor

Nurses and midwives in Ethiopia are being trained to perform emergency operations, saving thousands of lives.

People Fixing the World follows one of t…

6 years ago

New uses for old solutions

Two life-saving apps have been adapted to fix problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic - hear how ideas we’ve visited before have developed and grown…

6 years ago

How to get everyone online

From balloons in the stratosphere to swarms of satellites in space, the race to get everyone online is heating up.

The internet may never be more use…

6 years, 1 month ago