Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe school that puts wellbeing first
On average, one in eight children in the UK has a mental health disorder – that’s about three children in every classroom. Yet there are just 4.5 psy…
7 years, 1 month ago
Residents turn detective to fight crime
Neighbours in the US are using cameras that read car number plates to record vehicles driving down their streets. When there’s a crime they check th…
7 years, 1 month ago
Life-saving surgery, but not by a doctor
More than five billion people around the world don’t have access to safe, affordable surgical care. It has been a big problem in Ethiopia where most …
7 years, 1 month ago
Portugal, drugs and decriminalisation
In the 1990s Portugal had a major heroin problem, and when it came to people injecting drugs it had one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the …
7 years, 1 month ago
Can capturing carbon buy us time to tackle climate change?
To prevent the worst effects of climate change, we need to massively cut how much carbon we pump into the atmosphere. But those carbon cuts might not…
7 years, 2 months ago
Can sleep deprivation help treat bipolar disorder?
People diagnosed with bipolar disorder are commonly treated with a variety of drugs. They aren’t always effective and can come with a range of side e…
7 years, 2 months ago
Audience takeover: Your plastic solutions
We hear what you, our listeners, are doing to tackle the problem of plastic waste. The idea came about when you started getting in touch after a prev…
7 years, 2 months ago
Reinventing the ranch
It’s not a good time to be a meat eater. Pressure is growing to tackle climate change – and the livestock sector produces 15% of global greenhouse e…
7 years, 2 months ago
Working Less For The Same Pay
Matsuri Takahashi was 24 when she died. She took her own life after doing more than 100 hours overtime a month at a large advertising company in Japa…
7 years, 2 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? We…
7 years, 3 months ago