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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?

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Heather Williams – trauma, community and healing in south Bristol

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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

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 Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Joe Joyce talking rugby, resilience and making a controversial return to the West Country

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Green councillor Ani Townsend on art, inequality and the case for a universal basic income

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 with Temple Quarter chair Lyn Garner – can regeneration be inclusive?

The Temple Quarter redevelopment will transform a huge area of inner-city Bristol. What will it do for the city's big issues – housing, transport, jobs and education – and who will benefit?

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 Darren Jones – from a childhood in Lawrence Weston to Starmer’s right-hand man

The Bristol North West MP on his rise to the top table of politics, pints with the PM, the threat of Reform and reaching out to younger voters on YouTube

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.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Lee Haskins, the world champ boxer who never left Lockleaze

Neil chats to former world champion Lee Haskins about keeping rooted in community and family, life after the ring and why boxing gyms are more inclusive than you might think.