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Bristol Unpacked

 The Bristol Cable

Bristol Unpacked with 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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Society & Culture Politics Conversation
Update frequency
every 12 days
Average duration
50 minutes
Episodes
111
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Editor of Bristol 24/7 and Hotwells election hopeful Martin Booth

Editor of Bristol 24/7 and Hotwells election hopeful Martin Booth

From Boris Johnson to Marvin Rees will Martin Booth the editor of Bristol 24/7 become one of a long line of journalists who enter political office? 


Booth is in the running as an independent in the by…

00:58:26  |   Thu 12 Jan 2023
Working to welcome refugees amid the culture wars, with Fuad Mahamed, founder of Ashley Community Housing

Working to welcome refugees amid the culture wars, with Fuad Mahamed, founder of Ashley Community Housing

Arriving to the UK in 1998 as a refugee from Somalia, Fuad Mahamed soon left behind a career as an engineer to work on his passion: Supporting people who, like himself, had newly arrived to the UK of…
00:50:14  |   Thu 08 Dec 2022
Local GP Dr Patrick Hart fresh from court for sabotaging a petrol station with Just Stop Oil

Local GP Dr Patrick Hart fresh from court for sabotaging a petrol station with Just Stop Oil

Just Stop Oil protestors have been disrupting business as usual since April 2022. A Daily Mail columnist called them “a deranged criminal eco-terrorist cult”. But who are the people behind the headli…
00:48:53  |   Thu 24 Nov 2022
Labour MP Kerry McCarthy on if Tories can be friends and the coming fights on migration, taxation and climate

Labour MP Kerry McCarthy on if Tories can be friends and the coming fights on migration, taxation and climate

Kerry McCarthy, the Labour MP for Bristol East, is the city’s longest serving representative in Westminster. Sometimes described as a ‘Brownite’ having been an ally of the former PM the last time Lab…

00:56:23  |   Thu 10 Nov 2022
The first Black president of a county cricket club, who's had bananas thrown at him on the field

The first Black president of a county cricket club, who's had bananas thrown at him on the field

From striking fear into the hearts of opponents with fearsome fast bowls to a gruesome career ending injury forcing retirement at 29, David ‘Syd’ Lawrence is a cricketing icon in Bristol and beyond. …
00:47:22  |   Thu 29 Sep 2022
Why journalists are striking at the corporate publisher of Bristol Live

Why journalists are striking at the corporate publisher of Bristol Live

Reach PLC is one of the largest commercial publishers in the UK, which owns household brands like the Mirror and the Daily Star as well as the majority of local titles including Bristol Live, and pul…

00:44:41  |   Thu 01 Sep 2022
A senior school leader, race specialist and equality campaigner on stopping the ‘school to prison pipeline’

A senior school leader, race specialist and equality campaigner on stopping the ‘school to prison pipeline’

When does bad behaviour get so serious that a young person should be permanently excluded from the mainstream school system? No More Exclusions, a campaign Lana co-founded, says never. For Lana, doin…
00:57:46  |   Thu 25 Aug 2022
Bristol City Women's FC captain on two footing sexism in sport and growth in the women’s game

Bristol City Women's FC captain on two footing sexism in sport and growth in the women’s game

Women’s football was banned by the Football Association in 1921. Lasting for 50 years, the grandees of the football establishment deemed the sport “quite unsuitable for females”. Now, teams such as A…
00:36:57  |   Thu 14 Jul 2022
From the St Monica's care homes picket with a trade union organiser

From the St Monica's care homes picket with a trade union organiser

Suddenly everyone is talking about trade unions in the struggle over who will bear the brunt of the cost of living crisis. We speak to someone at the forefront of organising a local dispute between w…

00:54:46  |   Thu 07 Jul 2022
The outgoing artistic director of Bristol Old Vic on culture, who ‘the arts’ are for and having a genius brother

The outgoing artistic director of Bristol Old Vic on culture, who ‘the arts’ are for and having a genius brother

Tom Morris says he has an “almost indecent passion” for Bristol Old Vic, the oldest theatre in continuous operation in the English speaking world. But how has the Kings Street institution evolved? Ha…
00:55:07  |   Thu 30 Jun 2022
Paul Hassan, the community sector leader who says a mayor is best for the city and the vote is ‘self-indulgent’

Paul Hassan, the community sector leader who says a mayor is best for the city and the vote is ‘self-indulgent’

Opposition councillors say they have been shut out of scrutinising and making decisions, but Paul Hassan says the mayoral system has provided a focal point of leadership for the city as a whole to co…
00:46:50  |   Wed 04 May 2022
Nicola Bowden-Jones, the ex-Labour councillor who says the mayoral system is ‘sexist and anti-democratic’

Nicola Bowden-Jones, the ex-Labour councillor who says the mayoral system is ‘sexist and anti-democratic’

Nicola Bowden-Jones was at the heart of Bristol’s Labour Party for years, but is now at odds with the city’s Labour administration in a big way. Having resigned amid a dispute with the mayor, Bowden-…
00:45:23  |   Tue 03 May 2022
Ellie King, the Labour councillor coming out to bat for the mayoral system and take on critics

Ellie King, the Labour councillor coming out to bat for the mayoral system and take on critics

The city’s Labour administration says this referendum is an expensive distraction from the big issues the city faces. But have they brought it upon themselves? Opponents say the referendum is due to …
00:43:34  |   Thu 28 Apr 2022
Alex Hartley, the Lib Dem councillor that forced the vote on the future of Bristol’s political set-up

Alex Hartley, the Lib Dem councillor that forced the vote on the future of Bristol’s political set-up

The Lib Dem councillor who ‘prides himself on being a thorn in the mayor’s side’ led the vote on securing the referendum on whether to scrap the mayor. Representing Hotwells and Harbourside, Alex Har…
00:38:19  |   Wed 27 Apr 2022
The slap, Bristolian accent, grief and coming home

The slap, Bristolian accent, grief and coming home

As the slap reverberates around the world we talk all things comedy with Jayde Adams - who went from working in Asda Bedminster to her own Amazon Prime Special. She just starred in a new BBC document…
00:54:30  |   Wed 13 Apr 2022
The militant trade union, P&O sackings and a leftist view on Ukraine

The militant trade union, P&O sackings and a leftist view on Ukraine

The Railway Maritime and Transport trade union are no strangers to controversy, from winning massive pay rises for their members through sustained strike action, to an unapologetically socialist stan…
00:51:03  |   Thu 24 Mar 2022
The Bristolian: Unfair troll or the city's smiter of the high and mighty?

The Bristolian: Unfair troll or the city's smiter of the high and mighty?

The city's longstanding and self-proclaimed satirical scandal sheet has a reputation for not holding back on attacking local politicians, along with the great and the good for alleged wrongdoing. But…

00:41:07  |   Thu 03 Mar 2022
The struggle for autism justice in the city and Somali community, campaigner and Tory, Nura Aabe

The struggle for autism justice in the city and Somali community, campaigner and Tory, Nura Aabe

Nura Aabe as a mother and campaigner in the city's special needs crisis, and being Black and a Conservative.


A mother of a son with autism, Nura Aabe has been a central figure in the struggle to secur…

00:56:16  |   Thu 10 Feb 2022
The Metro-Mayor for the West of England on time in Blair's government, plans for the region and beef with other leaders

The Metro-Mayor for the West of England on time in Blair's government, plans for the region and beef with other leaders

Dan Norris is Labour's elected Metro-Mayor for WECA, aka the West of England region. Norris is the second in the role, following the Conservative's Tim Bowles and brings experience as a minister in B…
00:58:04  |   Thu 03 Feb 2022
Bristol Rover’s new CEO on embracing the modern game while keeping true to traditions

Bristol Rover’s new CEO on embracing the modern game while keeping true to traditions

The Gasheads have a new CEO. Tom Gorringe joined the club as commercial

director in 2017 and says he is determined to drive the club forward and

bring everyone along with him as CEO.


But the club has so…

01:02:15  |   Sat 29 Jan 2022
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