Priyanka Raval

Edition 44

Bristol’s Sikh community: A family history

With the arrival in 1961 of Bristol’s first copy of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy text, we trace the history of the city’s Sikh community and the family it began with

Listen: People Just Do Something – Life of the Party on the disaster of Your Party and the rise of the Greens

Shindig Festival stands firm on Bob Vylan booking despite licencing pressure

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something – Sarah Jaffe on love in the time of fascism

Sarah Jaffe on why intimacy is political — and why your love life isn't just your problem.

The Big Story

‘We wanted allies, not saviours’: Bristol’s Palestinian diaspora on allyship, isolation and enduring grief

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something – Nicholas Beuret on disrupting the climate transition

The rise and fall of Bristol Patriots

For almost a year, Bristol Patriots have led a campaign of harassment and intimidation in our city. But after last week’s hate-filled demo exposed their true colours, with out-and-out neo-Nazis, a child sex offender and bank robber in their ranks – is this finally the end for them?

Listen: People Just Do Something – Onboard the Global Sumud Flotilla with Mathilda Mallinson

From psychology training to drone attacks — reporting from the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Listen: People Just Do Something – Veronica Wignall on Bristol’s billboards and reclaiming public spaces

Billboards, inequality, and the corporations selling us problems they helped create.

Listen: People Just Do Something – Ros Martin on challenging LEGO and the toppling of Colston

Art, activism, and the audacity to speak up. Ros Martin has never stopped.

In conversation with Rising Arts Agency

For the past five years, Euella Jackson and Jess Bunyan have co-directed Rising Arts Agency, an organisation empowering young creatives from underrepresented backgrounds. We sit down with them to talk about leadership, innovation, and the challenges of the cultural sector

Listen: People Just Do Something – Pride is a protest: Black pride in Bristol

The activists who built Pride are still fighting — this time, against Pride itself.