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Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with Kingswood’s boxing sensation Tiah-Mai Ayton on her journey to the big time

A year on from turning pro with Matchroom, women's boxing star Tiah chats family life, the intense discipline of training and her world champ ambitions

Listen: Bristol Unpacked – from grassroots football to the World Cup, with Liam Smith

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Talk Club’s Gavin Thorpe – moving the dial on men’s mental health

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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.

This image features the logo and title for Bristol Unpacked, a podcast presented by The Bristol Cable. It includes stylized illustrations of host Neil Maggs and this week's guest, Paul Smith, in yellow circles against a grey abstract background.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Paul Smith on spending £20m and ensuring Hartcliffe doesn’t get betrayed again

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Yassin Mohamud, the city’s first Somali lord mayor on bringing people together

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 Kerri Matthews – what happens to families when parents go to prison?

Kerri, from Brentry's EveryFamily charity, talks to Neil about working with families where a parent is in prison, the shame and stigma children face and how the wider system needs to change after the failures of the austerity era.

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.

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.