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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs
Listen: Bristol Unpacked – from grassroots football to the World Cup, with Liam Smith
Neil is joined by Liam Smith of Bristol Central youth football club to talk expressing yourself through sport, the tough route to making it, diversity in football – and England's World Cup chances
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Paul Smith on spending £20m and ensuring Hartcliffe doesn’t get betrayed again
The housing chief and former councillor on helping residents of the neighbourhood where he grew up decide how to spend a decade-long government grant – and making sure that actually benefits locals.
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 Neil Maggs
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Lewis Wedlock – towards a positive masculinity
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.
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...
