Podcast

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Babbasa CEO Poku Osei on changing the system from the inside

In the wake of the recent murder of St Pauls teenager Eddie King Muthemba Kinuthia, Neil talks to Poku Osei from Babbasa who aim to empower young people from local income and ethnic minority households.

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Neil Maggs, Adam Cantwell-Corn and George Colwey

Your Bristol Life

Listen: The Sound Of Saffron by Charlie West

Charlie West

Your Bristol Life

Listen: A Bristol boy’s disabled life by Richard Prior

Richard Prior

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with activist Jasmine York on being jailed after the Kill the Bill riots

Jasmine York, who was jailed for arson after the 2021 Kill the Bill riots, discusses those days that rocked the city, and abolishing prisons.

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Neil Maggs, George Colwey and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Your Bristol Life

Listen: A short history of Purple Penguin, the record shop at the heart of the Bristol Sound

Peter Hall

Your Bristol Life

Listen: Love Her – how Weekenders made space for women’s music

Mary Milton

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with local political fixer Kelvin Blake taking a peek inside the city’s Labour party machine

Former councillor, now Labour campaign manager Kelvin Blake offers an inside perspective on the workings of power in our city.

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Neil Maggs, Adam Cantwell-Corn and George Colwey

Your Bristol Life

Listen: L’Chaim, My Lovers

As part of this series of podcasts about underrepresented parts of Bristol's history, local artist and writer Tom Chachewitz presents a brief history of Jewish life in the city.

Tom Chachewitz

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with councillor Christine Townsend on taking on the Merchant Venturers over educational inequality

Green councillor and education rights campaigner Christine Townsend on fighting discriminatory school selection practices and the prospect of taking power in Bristol.

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Neil Maggs, George Colwey and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Illustration for Bristol Unpacked podcast, with Bristol Transformed co-founder Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with leftwing rabble rouser and Bristol Transformed co-founder Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins has been a prominent Momentum activist and is a co-founder of Bristol Transformed, a festival of radical ideas. What next for the left – now on the back foot – in Bristol and beyond? 

Neil Maggs
Neil Maggs

Bristol History Podcast

Image of Arthur Rackham's 'Fairy Procession', originally for a 1908 edition of Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream

Listen: Sabrina, goddess of the River Severn

Nicola Haasz discusses the origin myths of Sabrina, goddess of the River Severn, and the cultural responses the river has elicited through history.

Tom Brothwell
Tom Brothwell

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Bristol Cathedral’s city chaplain Phil Nott, a reverend on a mission for social justice

Reverend Nott does not fit the stereotypical image of an Anglican priest. How can this LGBTQ+ ally, and outspoken voice on the Church's historical role in racism and injustice, work with an institution steeped in conservatism? 

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Neil Maggs, Adam Cantwell-Corn and George Colwey
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