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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Ben Carpenter – amid knife crime, online harms and isolation, what should our youth services look like?
Neil and Grassroot Communities' Ben Carpenter discuss the state of youth services in Bristol and beyond, the new Youth Zone in the south of the city, and how we can better serve our young people.
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Lewis Wedlock – towards a positive masculinity
Neil asks masculinities educator Lewis about his work in schools in Bristol and beyond, the appeal of the manosphere and why it’s so important to meet young people without judging them.
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Kerri Matthews – what happens to families when parents go to prison?
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Heather Williams – trauma, community and healing in south Bristol
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Edson Burton – what is culture and who does it belong to?
As Bristol vies to be 2029 UK City of Culture, Neil sits down with, writer, performer and historian Edson to ask what culture means in the city and the UK, and whether we can find a common understanding to unite around
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Joe Joyce talking rugby, resilience and making a controversial return to the West Country
Neil sits down with the 'King of Southmead' to discuss social media beef after his recent signing for Gloucester, class and culture in rugby, and how it feels to face the end of a sporting career
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.
