Helena Burke
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710 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
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Absolutely.
It is a great thing.
I mean, you know, rather than restricting places for tourists, which, you know, some of the cities do,
The Copenhagen Pays scheme started in 2024 with 24 local partners.
It's now expanded to more than 100 partners and they range from cafes and restaurants to museums and even a ski slope.
Another partner that's been involved since the beginning is GoBoat, a Danish company that rents out battery-powered boats on Copenhagen's canals.
I met up with GoBoat co-founder Kasper Eik-Rummer to try out their activity.
Rika from Copenhagen's tourist board says all the activities are shaped to help tourists think a bit more about their impact.
And of course, we hope a lot more participants or people will join.
Rika says that since Copenhagen was launched two years ago,
100 other tourist destinations have been in touch to find out how it works.
Last month, Germany's capital ran a pilot called BerlinPay.
We cannot save the world here in Copenhagen, but imagine if we next year see 40 cities having implemented this.
Then we sort of started a global movement.
Rico Holm Pedersen ending that report by Adrian Murray for People Fixing the World, which you can find wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
We end this edition with a rather surprising tale of one country's efforts to win the space race of the 1960s.
When you think about the contest to land the first man on the moon, you probably think of the US and the USSR.
But Zambia also had interstellar ambitions, which have now inspired a new touring theatre production.
Stephanie Prentice went to the Wilderness Festival in the English countryside to find out more.
Back in 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, winning the space race for the United States after years of jostling with the Soviet Union to get there first.
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