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Watch: Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol
Cable journalist Priyanka Raval spoke to people at Sunday’s BlackLivesMatter protest about what the toppling of the Edward Colston’s statue means, and where Bristol goes from here.
‘We should decide what happens to Bristol’s statues, not Westminster’
Ahead of the trial of the ‘Colston 4’, we spoke to Bristol University law professor Antonia Layard about the thorny legal issues surrounding statue protection, and why the legislation around statues needs to change.
Season 1, Episode 1: Founding member of Countering Colston, Green party city councillor and former Lord Mayor, Cleo Lake has a lot to say on the big questions of politics, race, history and the future of Bristol and beyond.