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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 on 5th August, 2020

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 on 28th July, 2020

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 on 21st July, 2020

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 on 14th July, 2020

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.