Bristol Unpacked
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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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 111
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
New Chief Constable on crime, protest and building an "anti-sexist and anti-racist" police force
Bristol has found itself at the centre of national and even international conversations about policing, protest, and criminal justice. At the top of the police chain of command is the Chief Constable…
Hard decisions as council down 23 million a year
Living with a bank robber to a bit part in The Outlaws
Former Bristol mayor on highs, lows, beef with Marvin, and being ‘radical’ as an ex-Merchant Venturer
Is Drill music is driving knife crime, and how to elevate youth in the city
New Green Party co-leader on being a party of government as well as protest
Carla Denyer, an elected councillor in the city, has just won the leadership of the Greens alongside Adrian Ramsay. With Labour shifting to the right, and concern about the climate crisis starting to…
Why he's proud to be a big bald Bristolian making it in the industry
Sexual entertainment, dance floor etiquette and the vital recovery of a bruised industry
Crime, riots and institutional racism in policing
Elected in May 2021, Mark Shelford is the first party political Police
and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset Constabulary. Shelford is
responsible for helping to set the overall policing strateg…
The faults of the mayoral system, Labour's past failings, and the problematic Merchant Venturers
Karin Smyth became Labour MP for Bristol South in 2015 after a career working in the NHS. Since she has had to navigate the political turmoil of Brexit, snap elections, and infighting over the Labour…
The Special Educational Needs crisis in Bristol
Master of the Merchant Venturers on whether they are an all powerful elite club, or just charitable business people
The Society of Merchant Venturers often gets talked about in
conspiratorial tones. Forced into the limelight by the toppling of
Colston, the Merchants have come under greater scrutiny for past and
prese…
On the 'free speech crisis' at universities
The government is introducing a new law claiming to defend freedom of
speech, amid an alleged crisis on British university campuses of 'cancel
culture' and de-platforming. But is it really the case tha…
Undercover police spying on activists in Bristol
Chris Brian was a anarchist activist in Bristol and south Wales in the 90s and early 2000s. Unknown to him and fellow activists, deep undercover in in their groups were police officers.
For years, the…
Working class culture, the film industry and white privilege
Paul Holbrook is an award winning filmmaker from Hartcliffe, south Bristol. His diverse films range from horror to comedy, and are often rooted in the experience of council estates and working class …
Pride Special - All things LGBTQ+
On kneeling at the Euros, and nurturing diverse football talent with leading local sports coach Rayan Wilson
Election Special Independent and Smaller Party Mayoral Candidates
A pub landlord, a socialist, a porn producer, an anti-lockdown advocate, and a tree lover: The five candidates from smaller parties or independents running for City Hall.
Interviews with the smaller p…
Election Special with Labour Bristol Mayor candidate