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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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The Debrief

Listen: The Debrief – race riots, trade union resistance and lessons from history

Priyanka Raval interviews journalist Adam Quarshie about trade unions’ response to far-right unrest, how they can do more for migrant workers, and whether their past relationship with racism needs to be reckoned with.

Listen: The Debrief: No far right in sight… Bristol’s victory over hatred

Listen: the Debrief – raking over a historic set of Bristol general election results

General Election 2024

Listen: How it could all go down in Bristol at July’s general election

Cable journalists Priyanka Raval and Matty Edwards give you a taster of what to watch out for at the general election in and around Bristol, and give their take on how the national campaign has unfolded so far.

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Local Elections 2024

Listen: The Debrief – what does Bristol’s Green surge mean for the city, and what next for the council under a new committee system?

Podcasts

Listen: The Debrief – why does transparency matter, and is the council getting any better at it?

Listen: The Debrief – Bristol is ditching its mayor, but what can it learn from Sheffield?

On 2 May 2024, Bristol will wave goodbye to its mayor and return to a committee system. Isaac Kneebone Hopkins chats with Priyanka Raval about what we can learn from Sheffield's experience of local government reform.

Listen: The Debrief, digging deeper into revelations of institutional racism at a local NHS trust

Priyanka Raval discusses the inside story of her recent investigation into racism in health services, and what it says about the state of the NHS, with Cable colleague Matty Edwards.

Listen: The Debrief – how and why we’re joining a citywide campaign to tackle knife crime

Cable journalists Sean Morrison and Priyanka Raval sit down to discuss why we’re joining the Together for Change campaign against knife crime.

Listen: The Debrief, as seven Palestine Action activists are found guilty of criminal damage to Bristol’s ‘murder factory’

Cable journalists discuss covering the recent 'Elbit seven' trial, which brought into sharp focus a Bristol-based arms manufacturer’s role in supplying Israel’s war in Gaza.

Listen: Inside Bristol’s ‘murder factory’ arms facility, with the activists on trial for occupying it

Palestine Action activists are on trial for smashing into an Elbit factory that ships weapons technologies to Israel. But at the heart of this case is the history and tragedy of Israel’s operations in Gaza, and how Bristol’s facility plays a role in the death and destruction.

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