Fashion without barriers
Exploring style and beauty for people with disabilities
- 23 mins
- 04 Jun 2024
BBC Sounds - People Fixing The World - Available Episodes
People Fixing The World
Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.
Episodes (371 Available)
- Solving Mexico City's water crisis
We meet the scientists, activists and urban planners tackling the megacity's water woes.
- 23 mins
- 28 May 2024
- Living with climate change
We go to El Salvador to look at projects tackling the effects of rising temperatures.
- 23 mins
- 21 May 2024
- The school run by kids
The Thai school that’s proving a model for Thailand and beyond.
- 23 mins
- 14 May 2024
- Fighting sexism in society
We look at how entrenched sexist attitudes towards women are being tackled
- 23 mins
- 07 May 2024
- Restoring California's underwater forests
We look at projects helping protect and restore kelp along the coastline of California
- 23 mins
- 30 Apr 2024
- Redefining luxury fashion
The luxury products that love the planet
- 23 mins
- 16 Apr 2024
- How literacy can change a life
How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read
- 23 mins
- 09 Apr 2024
- The power of music
Innovative ways that music can ease pain and bring people together.
- 23 mins
- 02 Apr 2024
- Greener ways to feed the world
How lab-brewed dairy and urban food forests can tackle climate change and hunger
- 23 mins
- 26 Mar 2024
- Magic mushrooms and mental health
Could psychedelic drugs help in the treatment of mental health conditions?
- 23 mins
- 19 Mar 2024
- Speaking up at work
We look at how to raise concerns about wrongdoing in the workplace.
- 23 mins
- 12 Mar 2024
- Clever ways to get kids learning
We look at innovative educational solutions in Senegal, Ghana and Pakistan.
- 23 mins
- 05 Mar 2024
- Making life easier for older people
We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.
- 23 mins
- 20 Feb 2024
- Overcoming stigma
The communities in Nigeria and India changing mindsets.
- 23 mins
- 13 Feb 2024
- Rewilding Earth
How beavers, bison and jaguars may help rebalance ecosystems
- 23 mins
- 06 Feb 2024
- Keeping the Amazon standing
Making a living from the Amazon without cutting down trees
- 23 mins
- 30 Jan 2024
- Fake birds and other stories
This week a host of great ideas inspired by solutions we've told you about in 2023.
- 23 mins
- 26 Dec 2023
- Making landfill less awful
The people trying to improve this icon of our wasteful culture
- 23 mins
- 19 Dec 2023
- The country tackling loneliness
How the Netherlands is making a serious attempt to tackle something we can all feel
- 23 mins
- 12 Dec 2023
