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The Cable is now producing weekly podcasts!

Every week we’ll be bringing you new episodes, from audio investigations and Bristol Unpacked to deep-dives into local issues and recordings of live events.

You can listen and subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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Latest episodes

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Ben Carpenter – amid knife crime, online harms and isolation, what should our youth services look like?

Neil and Grassroot Communities' Ben Carpenter discuss the state of youth services in Bristol and beyond, the new Youth Zone in the south of the city, and how we can better serve our young people.

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 Yassin Mohamud, the city’s first Somali lord mayor on bringing people together

Lawrence Hill councillor Yassin Mohamud talks to Neil about using his new role to bring people together, and his background dealing with neighbourhood issues

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