Podcasts

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Podcasts

Cable Live: Peter Apps talks Grenfell, buildings safety and where the housing crisis goes next

Journalist and author Peter Apps discusses the Grenfell inquiry, how the UK neglected its social housing, and what the future looks like.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner and George Colwey

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with filmmaker Aodh Breathnach on surviving being stabbed – and documenting its impact on him

Neil Maggs Priyanka Raval
Neil Maggs, George Colwey and Priyanka Raval

Podcasts

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Listen: Why are people so attached to their cars? Bristol prepares for its first ‘liveable neighbourhood’

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards and George Colwey

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.

Neil Maggs Adam Cantwell-Corn
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.

Neil Maggs Adam Cantwell-Corn
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

As part of this series of podcasts about underrepresented parts of Bristol’s history, the tale of the Purple Penguin record shop is one of community, creativity and underground culture.

Peter Hall

Your Bristol Life

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

As part of this series of podcasts about underrepresented parts of Bristol’s history, this is a homage to Weekenders, a women's music night that started in the late 90s.

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.

Neil Maggs Adam Cantwell-Corn
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.

Neil Maggs Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs, George Colwey and Adam Cantwell-Corn
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