Podcast Episodes

Is circular fashion the answer to clothes waste?

It’s estimated that a garbage truck full of clothing is being sent to a landfill every second, with less than 1% recycled into new clothes. One way to stop clothes reaching landfill is reusing, repai…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Super Mosquitoes and how to fight back against malaria

Cape Verde has become the first sub-Saharan nation to be declared malaria-free in fifty years. But mosquitoes, the insects that spread the deadly disease, have started to fight back. One type of the …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Who are the Houthis and why are the US and UK attacking them?

The Houthi, a political and military group in Yemen, have been attacking ships in the Red Sea since November. They say they’re targeting vessels headed to or owned by Israel as a way to support Pales…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Why are Guinness World Records being smashed in Ghana and Nigeria?

Hundreds of people have been trying to set new world records in Ghana, with applications flying in since July 2023.

Earlier this week a Ghanaian chef, Faila Abdul-Razak, completed the longest non-stop…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Ecuador: How do you solve the gang problem?

The notorious leader of Ecuador’s main criminal gang escaped from prison this week - he is still missing. The country’s President declared a state of emergency and the gangs fought back, with gunmen …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Overeducated, underpaid: China’s youth unemployment problem

More than one in five people between the ages of 16 and 24 are jobless in China according to the latest government data. But the figure could be even higher.

Millions of university graduates are strug…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

The dirty secret inside clean tech

We need precious metals to run green tech but what’s the cost of mining them?

Norway has approved commercial-scale deep-sea mining off its shores in the hunt for precious metals which are in high dem…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Ukraine: What’s life like for President Zelensky?

It’s been nearly two years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Millions of people have fled the country and thousands have been killed. The fighting is still going on, with Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelen…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Mickey Mouse: Copyrights and wrongs

Disney’s copyright on ‘Steamboat Willie’, which features the earliest version of Mickey Mouse, expired in the US on New Year’s Day - meaning the image is in the public domain and free to use… with so…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

How to survive a plane crash

Pictures of a burning Japan Airlines plane have been all over the news this week after it collided with a smaller aircraft on a runway in Tokyo. Amazingly, all 379 passengers in the larger plane surv…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago