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Hope Is Around The Corner

Being vulnerable is a strength

On a cab ride home, Nikesh learns of a secret dessert club for taxi drivers, a space where men can bond, support each other, laugh, and eat ice cream

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Paul Smith on spending £20m and ensuring Hartcliffe doesn’t get betrayed again

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Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

People Just Do Something

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Listen: People Just Do Something – Sarah Jaffe on love in the time of fascism

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins Priyanka Raval
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval
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Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Heather Williams – trauma, community and healing in south Bristol

Heather, the CEO of Knowle West Health Park, talks to Neil about the local response to Max Dixon and Mason Rist's murders, intergenerational trauma and her own 30-year journey as a mother and community worker.

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Hope Is Around The Corner

Bristol Patriots ‘unity march’ is a sham. We need to come out to oppose it

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla
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.

People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something – Veronica Wignall on Bristol’s billboards and reclaiming public spaces

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins Priyanka Raval
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

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 – Ros Martin on challenging LEGO and the toppling of Colston

Art, activism, and the audacity to speak up. Ros Martin has never stopped.

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins Priyanka Raval
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

Features

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‘Find your people, find your space’: Lawi Anywar on Bristol’s arts scene

The Bristol-based multi-instrumentalist discusses mental health, masculinity and the challenges of thriving in a precarious creative sector

Fran Pope

Features

Bristol’s Kurdish community rallies for Rojava

As attacks intensify in northern Syria, Kurdish Bristolians Tara and Tanya speak to the Cable about betrayal, resistance and why the women-led revolution must be defended

Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson

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 – Pride is a protest: Black pride in Bristol

The activists who built Pride are still fighting — this time, against Pride itself.

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins Priyanka Raval
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

Cable Community News

Want to help shape the future of The Bristol Cable? Stand to be a director.

Want to enable independent news media stand out from the noise of mainstream media? Stand to be a director of The Bristol Cable.

Siddhartha Kurapati
Siddhartha Kurapati

Features

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‘If you see it, you can be it’: The cricket club creating a more inclusive game

Nationally, less than one percent of recreational cricket players come from African Caribbean backgrounds. The Cable meets the local cricket club with a mission to change that

Ollie Goodwin
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