Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe snakebite squad
It's estimated that a person dies from a snakebite every five minutes. Many more people face life-changing injuries, losing limbs and consequently th…
6 years, 10 months ago
Meeting Colombia’s ‘Violentologist’
For the past 20 years, police chiefs and policy makers around the world have been fascinated by an idea: that violence spreads through cities like a …
6 years, 11 months ago
A new way to detect an invisible poison in water
In the 1970s hundreds of thousands of wells were dug across Bangladesh to give people access to cholera-free water. But this led to what the World He…
6 years, 11 months ago
Oysters to the rescue
Pollution, overfishing and oxygen depletion are damaging coastal waters across the world. Often fish and other marine life are the victims, but scien…
6 years, 11 months ago
The concrete cleaners
Concrete is the most used man-made product in the world but it comes with a heavy environmental price. Between 5% and 7% of the world's annual carbo…
6 years, 11 months ago
Bangladesh’s biker girls
For the growing number of working women in Dhaka, commuting to work can be a challenge. The traffic is terrible and cars and taxis are expensive. …
6 years, 11 months ago
Putting a price on carbon
For most of human history, pumping carbon dioxide into the air has come free of charge. Burning fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution and po…
7 years ago
A simple way to help a relative if they’re arrested
In the US most people who are charged with a crime can’t afford expensive lawyers and investigators to prepare their case. The public defenders who r…
7 years ago
Stopping child marriage with solar lanterns
It’s estimated that more than 100 million girls under the age of 18 will be married in the next decade. One country that’s trying to end the pra…
7 years ago
Trieste’s mental health ‘revolution’
Each year, mental health practitioners from around the world visit Trieste in Italy to see what they can learn from the city’s approach to mental ill…
7 years ago