What does it take to change the world? This podcast will introduce you to the people who are who are mending our planet, stitching together a new future and showing us the best of what it is to be human. Hosts: Angus Hervey, Amy Davoren-Rose
46 episodes transcribedThis week's headlines include: deforestation in the Amazon takes another plunge; Mexico reduces poverty; Nigeria boosts child health; no more corp...
Meet Krystal Birungi, Carolina Morgado, Nice Leng’ete and Bhavreen Kandhari – four incredible women who are working on the frontlines of science, cons...
Welcome to our first edition of NewsFix - your weekly dose of good news! On today's episode: global air-pollutiondeaths fall as the 'clean-air...
Meet David Fajgenbaum, a physician scientist who is savinglives by repurposing existing medications to treat different diseases through his organisati...
Two weeks ago, Amy was on the ground in New York during the UN General Assembly and Climate Week. Attending various events, including the Clinton Glob...
In our final episode of the series, we’ll uncover the surprising stories behind the science of the world’s first jab for malaria and how this ‘orphan’...
Rolling out a new vaccine across an entire continent takes an extraordinary chain of people - from the scientists in the labs, to delivery truck drive...
As one of our oldest and most relentless enemies, the arrival of two malaria vaccines, has the potential to change the future of humanity. In this fir...
Over a year ago, we decided that we wanted to tell the storyof the malaria vaccine; one of the most important yet hidden stories of progress in the wo...
What do KPop Demon Hunters and Bluey have to do with stories of progress? Well, you’ll hear the answer in this ‘Ask Us Anything’ episode. From controv...
Meet Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, bestselling author andour first repeat guest on the podcast! In this episode we chat with Rutger about his new...
Meet Paulie Stewart, an Australian punk rocker who teamed upwith a group of nuns to help disabled kids in Timor Leste. From walking on the wild side,...
Meet Wawira Njiru, a nutritionist and social entrepreneur in Kenya who’s gone from serving lunch to 25 children out of a makeshift kitchen to establis...
Meet Boyan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup - the world’s largest cleanup in history. After starting as a high school project in the Netherlands in...
A new chapter begins on July 31st, 2025.
Depending on where you get your news, 2024 probably sounded like a complete disaster. And while a lot of terrible things happened, not everything that...
Meet Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist and public intellectual who is one of the world’s greatest thinkers on the topic of progress. He is the a...
Meet Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo, a psychologist and narrative therapist who uses a travelling caravan to bring mental health services to townships on the out...
Meet Sonia Vallabh, a lawyer turned scientist with one of the most compelling stories we have ever heard. In 2011, Sonia was diagnosed with prion dise...
Two weeks ago, Amy attended the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, where she met some incredible change makers who are driving solutions across he...
