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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 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 Labour councillor Kirsty Tait on the Just Transition and how best to spend £20m in Hartcliffe
Neil asks Hartcliffe and Withywood representative Kirsty Tait about the government money the neighbourhood is getting – and about the importance of putting working-class voices at the centre of climate conversations.
Listen: Bristol Unpacked – high sheriff Kalpna Woolf on connecting people through food and battling for boardroom diversity
Neil chats to Kalpna Woolf on her journey from west London migrant kid to BBC head of production, cookbook author and boardroom diversity advocate – as well asking what exactly a high sheriff gets up to.
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with David Jubb of Citizens in Power – can citizens’ assemblies relight our democratic fires?
Neil sits down with David Jubb to talk citizens' assemblies: how do they work, why are they a better way of doing politics, and what's the new one he's helping run here in the West of England all about?
Listen: Bristol Unpacked with the BBC’s Pete Simson on the WECA mayoral election, making politics interesting and why snacks matter
Neil talks to Pete Simson, BBC Politics West editor, about the race to become the new mayor of the West of England Combined Authority and whether an upset in the 2025 election is likely after Arron Banks' entry.
