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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Extinction Rebellion activist Chloe Naldrett, on getting arrested and where next for XR
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Chloe's recent arrest has helped put XR back in the headlines, but how can the movement sustain itself in rebellion against climate catastrophe?
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Paul Smith, the council’s housing boss, and how a socialist can be ‘credible’ with developers
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
The famously humorous Hartcliffe local was a city councillor in the 1990s, and then getting re-elected in 2016, bringing professional experience to the role of...
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Desmond Brown, on knife crime, the justice system and being called a ‘police informant’
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Desmond has been accused by some of being a police informant, due to his work with local institutions and the police, a claim he strongly refutes as ridiculous.
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Watch: The struggle for the future of Britain’s best street
By Neil Maggs, Matt Buckner and Adam Cantwell-Corn
A furore has kicked off over proposals to pedestrianise one of Bristol's most iconic streets, St Marks Road, with famous shop Sweetmart threatening to leave! Easton native Neil Maggs investigates whats going on behind the headlines.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Sam Williamson, head teacher on education in one of the UK’s most deprived areas
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Children's futures almost stolen, inequality made worse by algorithm and education in the time of COVID-19 in some of the UK's most deprived neighbourhoods.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Krazy, the local hip-hop heavyweight who punched a racist
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
As a white man he has been accused of cultural appropriation, despite growing up in the scene.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with David Goldblatt, on how sport can help save us from climate change
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Local football clubs are gonna need gondolas to get supporters to flooded pitches and sports fans are untapped climate change champions, says the leading voice on sport and society.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Jimmy Galvin, the artist who hadn’t read a book at 20
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Growing up in poverty on north Bristol council estate Lawrence Weston, Jimmy didn’t read a book until he was 20. His life changed when his girlfriend took him to the Tate gallery in London.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Marti Burgess, the first Black Merchant Venturer
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Marti is the first Black person to join the Merchant Venturers, the 500 year old club of slave trader Edward Colston.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Delroy Hibbert
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Delroy Hibbert is a Black Lives Matter backer. But he also attended the ‘All Lives Matter’ demonstration in Bristol the week after Colston fell.
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Cleo Lake
By Neil Maggs, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn
Season 1, Episode 1: Founding member of Countering Colston, Green party city councillor and former Lord Mayor, Cleo Lake has a lot to say on the big questions of politics, race, history and the future of Bristol and beyond.
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Watch: Resilience – An uplifting story of young mums on one of the UK’s oldest council estates
By Neil Maggs, Matt Buckner and The treatmentworx
A short documentary of young mums overcoming stigma through friendship on one of the UK's oldest council estates, Hillfields in Bristol.
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WATCH: Bristol South and bloody Brexit
By Neil Maggs, Adam Cantwell-Corn and Aphra Evans
On the eve of this unpredictable election, Neil Maggs went to Labour-held Bristol South to talk to people about trust in politics, Jeremy Corbyn and Brexit, which divides people.
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Watch: Authenticity in Cadbury Heath
By Neil Maggs
Janice has been working at a family run community project for 22 years in Cadbury Heath, which is trying to fill the gaps left by austerity.
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Watch: Hartcliffe Aspirations, a short doc with Paul Holbrook
By Neil Maggs and Matt Buckner
A moving short film about Hartcliffe and aspiration with local lad and award winning film maker Paul Holbrook.
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A complicated victory: Bristol, European City of Sport 2017
By Neil Maggs
Bristol has won European City of Sport 2017. What does it mean for the city?
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Ideas And Action Edition 6 City Voices
Football has a problem. Where are the tools to fix it?
By Neil Maggs
How can we help our football teams reflect the diversity of our local communities?
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How local are our football clubs?
By Neil Maggs
Last season saw two open-top bus tours and huge celebrations in Bristol, as City and Rovers both gained promotion..
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