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
Election Special with Green Bristol Mayor candidate
Election Special with Conservative Bristol Mayor candidate
Media, Meghan, racism and the Bristol History Commission facing up to the city’s past
Ageism and intergenerational divides
Bristol City FC and the highs and lows of the beautiful game with football journalist
The ‘war on woke’ and can patriotism be inclusive
A thorn in the side of the mayor's Administration
A self-declared thorn in the side of the mayor’s administration, Clive Stevens has just stood down as a Green Party councillor in the city, due to stress brought about by the pressures of the job.
We…
Bristol tackling the climate: Green washing or world leading
Getting emotional giving COVID jabs and 'vaccine hesitancy' in the BAME community
Ade Williams is a bit of a celebrity pharmacist. Both around his pharmacy in Bedminster, South Bristol and speaking up in the media for a community-minded approach to healthcare. Neil and Ade talk ab…
Marriage surviving gender transition and the dispute over transgender rights
Content warning: Mention of sexual assault in prisons, self-harm and suicide.
Steffi made national news with her story of transitioning gender later in life to officially becoming a woman while decid…
How resisting housing evictions can lead to a better world
Men, Mental Health and Hope
Content Warning: Discussion of suicide
Listen up, particularly men and boys. It's dark, it's wet, there’s a pandemic on. It's taking its toll, particularly on mental health. But there is light, and n…
SEND funding crisis, losing a candidacy and feeling hopeful
Last week we had the Tory challenger for Bristol Mayor, and this week we
have a Labour party stalwart, councillor and cabinet member for children
services Helen Godwin. Helen recently lost the Labour e…
Black, Conservative and proud
As the debate around the legacy and current effects of racial injustice rages, some Conservatives of colour are speaking up in rejection of what they see as the dominant ‘woke’ views.
Samuel Willams,…
New wave of racism post COVID
What does it mean to be Bristolian? Makala Cheung, born and raised in Knowle West of South-East Asian heritage, is a musician and creative director of the Filwood Centre in the South Bristol heartlan…
Hartcliffe Lad & Green Party Politician
Trinity Centre, Covid and How to Save Culture
Race, Class and Climate Change
As a leader of Bristol’s Black and Green project, Zakiya is bringing a background in broadcasting and research to connect the inner city with the natural environment. Featuring on BBC 4 and across ma…
Decolonising Education
From childhood experiences of being in care and bounced around different schools, to appearing on the front page of the Bristol Post last week talking about knife crime, Lawrence Hoo has a lot to say…
The House is on Fire
Public concern about climate change is at an all time high. Yet we are still hurtling towards, and seeing the beginnings of an unimaginable crisis. Among those standing in the way is Chloe Naldrett a…