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Kerri Matthews: what happens when parents go to prison?
59 mins; March 30, 2026
Heather Williams: trauma, community and healing in south Bristol
62 hours 42 mins; March 16, 2026
Edson Burton: what is culture and who does it belong to?
64 hours 4 mins; March 02, 2026
Joe Joyce: rugby, resilience and returning to the West Country
56 mins; February 16, 2026
Ani Townsend: art, inequality and the case for universal basic income
63 hours 5 mins; February 02, 2026
Clare Moody: policing, power and a political cancellation
58 mins; January 19, 2026
Bristol Temple Quarter: can regeneration be inclusive?
59 mins; December 15, 2025
DIY wealth redistribution, with Bristol Redistro’s Frances Howe
44 mins; December 01, 2025
Unpacked – Darren Jones: from Lawrence Weston to Starmer’s right-hand man
48 mins; November 17, 2025
WECA Mayor Helen Godwin - redefining regional leadership and sorting out the buses
63 hours 1 min; August 11, 2025
Lee Haskins: The world champ boxer who never left Lockleaze
57 mins; July 28, 2025
Mythbusting Islam & Islamophobia, with Rizwan Ahmed
63 hours 37 mins; July 14, 2025
£20m for Hartcliffe: Kirsty Tait on climate change, class & community
60 hours 11 mins; June 30, 2025
From Eastville to LA (via Wigan): Bristol Northern Soul Club
54 mins; June 16, 2025
Kalpna Woolf: From migrant kid in London to High Sheriff of Bristol
57 mins; June 02, 2025
A year of Green power in Bristol with council leader Tony Dyer
58 mins; May 19, 2025
What is a citizens' assembly and how do they work?
59 mins; May 05, 2025
Cider, jet skis and the WECA mayoral election: BBC journalist Pete Simson
65 hours 32 mins; April 21, 2025
Legendary Bristol photographer Colin Moody
60 hours 38 mins; April 07, 2025
From the archive: Carla Denyer becomes Green party co-leader (2021)
50 mins; March 24, 2025
From the archive: Jayde Adams, the slap, Bristolian accent, grief and coming home
54 mins; March 10, 2025
Barrister Lucy Reed on opening up the secretive family courts
67 hours 38 mins; February 24, 2025
Dr Patrick Hart: Just Stop Oil petrol station sabotage court case - From the archives
50 mins; February 17, 2025
Ex-Lord Mayor Paul Goggin talks homelessness and mental health
67 hours 44 mins; January 27, 2025
Amanda Sharman on leading the charge for boat dwellers' rights
56 mins; December 16, 2024
Samira Musse on community power and giving children confidence
70 hours 37 mins; December 02, 2024
Barry Parsons on Green Party power in Bristol – and whether they can do anything about the housing crisis
55 mins; November 18, 2024
Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Emma Edwards // Green Party
74 hours 28 mins; April 26, 2024
Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Mark Weston // Conservative
68 hours 54 mins; April 24, 2024
Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Jos Clark // Liberal Democrats
69 hours 3 mins; April 19, 2024
Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Tom Renhard // Labour
65 hours 32 mins; April 12, 2024
Salma Najjar on experiencing the Gaza war as a Palestinian in the UK
61 hours 35 mins; February 09, 2024
Ruth Pitter on the role of the charity sector, pioneering Black theatre and her recent MBE
60 hours 35 mins; January 19, 2024
BBC journalist Lucy Proctor on mad cows, Covid and conspiracy theories
61 hours 40 mins; January 04, 2024
Watershed CEO Clare Reddington on cinema, class and council cuts
55 mins; December 15, 2023
ACORN's Wesley Bear on the Barton House evacuation and housing activism in the city
51 mins; December 08, 2023
Filmmaker Aodh Breathnach on surviving being stabbed – and documenting the aftermath
59 mins; November 16, 2023
Babbasa CEO Poku Osei on working from the inside to change the system
56 mins; August 03, 2023
Kill the Bill riots ex-prisoner, Jasmine York
57 mins; July 13, 2023
Inside the city’s Labour party machine with local fixer Kelvin Blake
55 mins; June 29, 2023
Councillor Christine Townsend, on taking on the Merchant Venturers over educational inequality
61 hours 11 mins; June 15, 2023
Leftwing rabble rouser and co-founder of Bristol Transformed Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
56 mins; May 25, 2023
Bristol Cathedral's city chaplain Phil Nott, a reverend on a mission for social justice
56 mins; May 05, 2023
Headteacher of Redcliffe Nursery School Sam Williams
51 mins; April 13, 2023
Labour’s Nicola Beech on who’s getting the best deal out of the city: developers or the public?
53 mins; March 30, 2023
Bristol City FC meets community and politics with James Edwards
44 mins; March 16, 2023
The city’s new Green Party leader, Emma Edwards, on being the biggest political force in these parts
49 mins; March 02, 2023
The armed robber turned TikTok addiction mentor, Paul Simmons
51 mins; February 09, 2023
The doctor prescribing ketamine to assist therapy, Dr Ben Sessa
52 mins; January 26, 2023
Editor of Bristol 24/7 and Hotwells election hopeful Martin Booth
58 mins; January 12, 2023
Working to welcome refugees amid the culture wars, with Fuad Mahamed, founder of Ashley Community Housing
50 mins; December 08, 2022
Local GP Dr Patrick Hart fresh from court for sabotaging a petrol station with Just Stop Oil
48 mins; November 24, 2022
Labour MP Kerry McCarthy on if Tories can be friends and the coming fights on migration, taxation and climate
56 mins; November 10, 2022
The first Black president of a county cricket club, who's had bananas thrown at him on the field
47 mins; September 29, 2022
Why journalists are striking at the corporate publisher of Bristol Live
44 mins; September 01, 2022
A senior school leader, race specialist and equality campaigner on stopping the ‘school to prison pipeline’
57 mins; August 25, 2022
Bristol City Women's FC captain on two footing sexism in sport and growth in the women’s game
36 mins; July 14, 2022
From the St Monica's care homes picket with a trade union organiser
54 mins; July 07, 2022
The outgoing artistic director of Bristol Old Vic on culture, who ‘the arts’ are for and having a genius brother
55 mins; June 30, 2022
Paul Hassan, the community sector leader who says a mayor is best for the city and the vote is ‘self-indulgent’
46 mins; May 04, 2022
Nicola Bowden-Jones, the ex-Labour councillor who says the mayoral system is ‘sexist and anti-democratic’
45 mins; May 03, 2022
Ellie King, the Labour councillor coming out to bat for the mayoral system and take on critics
43 mins; April 28, 2022
Alex Hartley, the Lib Dem councillor that forced the vote on the future of Bristol’s political set-up
38 mins; April 27, 2022
The slap, Bristolian accent, grief and coming home
54 mins; April 13, 2022
The militant trade union, P&O sackings and a leftist view on Ukraine
51 mins; March 24, 2022
The Bristolian: Unfair troll or the city's smiter of the high and mighty?
41 mins; March 03, 2022
The struggle for autism justice in the city and Somali community, campaigner and Tory, Nura Aabe
56 mins; February 10, 2022
The Metro-Mayor for the West of England on time in Blair's government, plans for the region and beef with other leaders
58 mins; February 03, 2022
Bristol Rover’s new CEO on embracing the modern game while keeping true to traditions
62 hours 15 mins; January 28, 2022
New Chief Constable on crime, protest and building an "anti-sexist and anti-racist" police force
61 hours 53 mins; January 21, 2022
Hard decisions as council down 23 million a year
54 mins; November 19, 2021
Living with a bank robber to a bit part in The Outlaws
43 mins; November 04, 2021
Former Bristol mayor on highs, lows, beef with Marvin, and being ‘radical’ as an ex-Merchant Venturer
53 mins; October 28, 2021
Is Drill music is driving knife crime, and how to elevate youth in the city
51 mins; October 22, 2021
New Green Party co-leader on being a party of government as well as protest
51 mins; October 07, 2021
Why he's proud to be a big bald Bristolian making it in the industry
38 mins; September 30, 2021
Sexual entertainment, dance floor etiquette and the vital recovery of a bruised industry
41 mins; September 23, 2021
Crime, riots and institutional racism in policing
37 mins; September 17, 2021
The faults of the mayoral system, Labour's past failings, and the problematic Merchant Venturers
44 mins; September 10, 2021
The Special Educational Needs crisis in Bristol
38 mins; August 05, 2021
Master of the Merchant Venturers on whether they are an all powerful elite club, or just charitable business people
45 mins; July 29, 2021
On the 'free speech crisis' at universities
48 mins; July 22, 2021
Undercover police spying on activists in Bristol
41 mins; July 15, 2021
Working class culture, the film industry and white privilege
45 mins; July 01, 2021
Pride Special - All things LGBTQ+
53 mins; June 24, 2021
On kneeling at the Euros, and nurturing diverse football talent with leading local sports coach Rayan Wilson
49 mins; June 18, 2021
Election Special Independent and Smaller Party Mayoral Candidates
73 hours 10 mins; May 04, 2021
Election Special with Labour Bristol Mayor candidate Marvin Rees
66 hours 24 mins; April 26, 2021
Election Special with Lib Dem Bristol Mayor candidate
51 mins; April 19, 2021
Election Special with Green Bristol Mayor candidate
49 mins; April 08, 2021
Election Special with Conservative Bristol Mayor candidate
49 mins; April 01, 2021
Media, Meghan, racism and the Bristol History Commission facing up to the city’s past
33 mins; March 18, 2021
Ageism and intergenerational divides
37 mins; March 11, 2021
Bristol City FC and the highs and lows of the beautiful game with football journalist
42 mins; March 04, 2021
The ‘war on woke’ and can patriotism be inclusive
35 mins; February 25, 2021
A thorn in the side of the mayor's Administration
38 mins; February 18, 2021
Bristol tackling the climate: Green washing or world leading
48 mins; February 11, 2021
Bristol tackling the climate: Green washing or world leading
47 mins; February 11, 2021
Getting emotional giving COVID jabs and 'vaccine hesitancy' in the BAME community
41 mins; February 04, 2021
Marriage surviving gender transition and the dispute over transgender rights
48 mins; January 28, 2021
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