Podcasts

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.

For early access to new podcasts every Friday become a £120 per year annual member here.

Latest episodes

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

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.

Alex Turner, Neil Maggs and George Colwey

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Lee Haskins, the world champ boxer who never left Lockleaze

Neil chats to former world champion Lee Haskins about keeping rooted in community and family, life after the ring and why boxing gyms are more inclusive than you might think.

Alex Turner, Neil Maggs and George Colwey

People Just Do Something

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.

Listen: People Just Do Something – Mike Jay and the radical history of nitrous oxide

Isaac interviews Free Radicals author Mike Jay about Bristol's Pneumatic Institute, its founder Thomas Beddoes and the radical history of nitrous oxide.

George Colwey and Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

Our shows

People Just Do Something

A relaxing and possibly enraging podcast about people who might self-identify as activists, trying to untangle how to effect change in Bristol and broken Britain.

The Debrief

Journalists from the Cable sit down to discuss their latest investigations with host Priyanka Raval.

Area in Focus

Underreported stories from across Bristol, as Cable journalists get out onto the streets.

Bristol Unpacked

Neil Maggs brings you fascinating and challenging conversations from characters of all stripes on big topics facing the city and beyond.

Long reads

Audio versions of our best investigations, uncovering corruption, wrongdoing and injustice.

Cable Live

Live recordings of our public events, from panels to celebrity speakers

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