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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.

For early access to new podcasts every Monday become a paid member of The Bristol Cable, join us.

Latest episodes

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked – from grassroots football to the World Cup, with Liam Smith

Neil is joined by Liam Smith of Bristol Central youth football club to talk expressing yourself through sport, the tough route to making it, diversity in football – and England's World Cup chances

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Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

This image features the logo and title for Bristol Unpacked, a podcast presented by The Bristol Cable. It includes stylized illustrations of host Neil Maggs and this week's guest, Gavin Thorpe, in yellow circles against a grey abstract background.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Talk Club’s Gavin Thorpe – moving the dial on men’s mental health

Neil is joined by Talk Club co-founder Gavin Thorpe for an in-depth chat on men's mental health, generational attitudes and achieving change.

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Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

This image features the logo and title for Bristol Unpacked, a podcast presented by The Bristol Cable. It includes stylized illustrations of host Neil Maggs and this week's guest, Ben Carpenter, in yellow circles against a grey abstract background.

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.

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Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

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.

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The Debrief

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

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'Area in focus'

Area in Focus

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

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Bristol Unpacked

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

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Long reads

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

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Cable Live

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

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