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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Yassin Mohamud, the city’s first Somali lord mayor on bringing people together
Lawrence Hill councillor Yassin Mohamud talks to Neil about using his new role to bring people together, and his background dealing with neighbourhood issues
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Heather Williams – trauma, community and healing in south Bristol
Heather, the CEO of Knowle West Health Park, talks to Neil about the local response to Max Dixon and Mason Rist's murders, intergenerational trauma and her own 30-year journey as a mother and community worker.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Edson Burton – what is culture and who does it belong to?
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Joe Joyce talking rugby, resilience and making a controversial return to the West Country
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Green councillor Ani Townsend on art, inequality and the case for a universal basic income
Should the state give people free money? This week Ani and Neil discuss how a universal basic income would work, why supporting the arts is a class issue, and whether ‘eco-populist’ Green leader Zack Polanski can take on the traditional parties – and Reform.
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with police and crime commissioner Clare Moody on fixing force culture, and the government axing her role
Just 18 months into her term, the Labour politician in charge of police scrutiny in Avon and Somerset has, along with peers across the country, been told she represents a 'failed experiment' that will end in 2028. Neil asks Clare Moody how that feels, and what she aims to achieve while still in o...
Listen: Bristol Unpacked – taking wealth redistribution into your own hands, with Bristol Redistro’s Frances Howe
Wealth taxes are in the news just now – but how much money is too much, what is DIY wealth redistribution & what difference can it make? Neil Maggs asks Frances Howe of Bristol Redistro.
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with West of England mayor Helen Godwin on doing leadership differently – and sorting out the buses
WECA chief Helen, who won the mayoral election for Labour in May, talks election pledges, building relationships, and learning from Andy Burnham to put the West Country on the map.