All Episodes
Bristol Unpacked — 127 episodes
Tiah-Mai Ayton, Kingswood's boxing sensation
From grassroots football to the World Cup, with Liam Smith
Talk Club’s Gavin Thorpe – moving the dial on men’s mental health
Ben Carpenter: what should youth services look like?
Paul Smith: spending £20m and not betraying Hartcliffe
Yassin Mohamud: Bristol's first Somali lord mayor
Lewis Wedlock: towards a positive masculinity
Kerri Matthews: what happens when parents go to prison?
Heather Williams: trauma, community and healing in south Bristol
Edson Burton: what is culture and who does it belong to?
Joe Joyce: rugby, resilience and returning to the West Country
Ani Townsend: art, inequality and the case for universal basic income
Clare Moody: policing, power and a political cancellation
Bristol Temple Quarter: can regeneration be inclusive?
DIY wealth redistribution, with Bristol Redistro’s Frances Howe
Unpacked – Darren Jones: from Lawrence Weston to Starmer’s right-hand man
WECA Mayor Helen Godwin - redefining regional leadership and sorting out the buses
Lee Haskins: The world champ boxer who never left Lockleaze
Mythbusting Islam & Islamophobia, with Rizwan Ahmed
£20m for Hartcliffe: Kirsty Tait on climate change, class & community
From Eastville to LA (via Wigan): Bristol Northern Soul Club
Kalpna Woolf: From migrant kid in London to High Sheriff of Bristol
A year of Green power in Bristol with council leader Tony Dyer
What is a citizens' assembly and how do they work?
Cider, jet skis and the WECA mayoral election: BBC journalist Pete Simson
Legendary Bristol photographer Colin Moody
From the archive: Carla Denyer becomes Green party co-leader (2021)
From the archive: Jayde Adams, the slap, Bristolian accent, grief and coming home
Barrister Lucy Reed on opening up the secretive family courts
Dr Patrick Hart: Just Stop Oil petrol station sabotage court case - From the archives
Ex-Lord Mayor Paul Goggin talks homelessness and mental health
Amanda Sharman on leading the charge for boat dwellers' rights
Samira Musse on community power and giving children confidence
Barry Parsons on Green Party power in Bristol – and whether they can do anything about the housing crisis
Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Emma Edwards // Green Party
Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Mark Weston // Conservative
Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Jos Clark // Liberal Democrats
Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Tom Renhard // Labour
Salma Najjar on experiencing the Gaza war as a Palestinian in the UK
Ruth Pitter on the role of the charity sector, pioneering Black theatre and her recent MBE
BBC journalist Lucy Proctor on mad cows, Covid and conspiracy theories
Watershed CEO Clare Reddington on cinema, class and council cuts
ACORN's Wesley Bear on the Barton House evacuation and housing activism in the city
Filmmaker Aodh Breathnach on surviving being stabbed – and documenting the aftermath
Babbasa CEO Poku Osei on working from the inside to change the system
Kill the Bill riots ex-prisoner, Jasmine York
Inside the city’s Labour party machine with local fixer Kelvin Blake
Councillor Christine Townsend, on taking on the Merchant Venturers over educational inequality
Leftwing rabble rouser and co-founder of Bristol Transformed Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
Bristol Cathedral's city chaplain Phil Nott, a reverend on a mission for social justice
Headteacher of Redcliffe Nursery School Sam Williams
Labour’s Nicola Beech on who’s getting the best deal out of the city: developers or the public?
Bristol City FC meets community and politics with James Edwards
The city’s new Green Party leader, Emma Edwards, on being the biggest political force in these parts
The armed robber turned TikTok addiction mentor, Paul Simmons
The doctor prescribing ketamine to assist therapy, Dr Ben Sessa
Editor of Bristol 24/7 and Hotwells election hopeful Martin Booth
Working to welcome refugees amid the culture wars, with Fuad Mahamed, founder of Ashley Community Housing
Local GP Dr Patrick Hart fresh from court for sabotaging a petrol station with Just Stop Oil
Labour MP Kerry McCarthy on if Tories can be friends and the coming fights on migration, taxation and climate
The first Black president of a county cricket club, who's had bananas thrown at him on the field
Why journalists are striking at the corporate publisher of Bristol Live
A senior school leader, race specialist and equality campaigner on stopping the ‘school to prison pipeline’
Bristol City Women's FC captain on two footing sexism in sport and growth in the women’s game
From the St Monica's care homes picket with a trade union organiser
The outgoing artistic director of Bristol Old Vic on culture, who ‘the arts’ are for and having a genius brother
Paul Hassan, the community sector leader who says a mayor is best for the city and the vote is ‘self-indulgent’
Nicola Bowden-Jones, the ex-Labour councillor who says the mayoral system is ‘sexist and anti-democratic’
Ellie King, the Labour councillor coming out to bat for the mayoral system and take on critics
Alex Hartley, the Lib Dem councillor that forced the vote on the future of Bristol’s political set-up
The slap, Bristolian accent, grief and coming home
The militant trade union, P&O sackings and a leftist view on Ukraine
The Bristolian: Unfair troll or the city's smiter of the high and mighty?
The struggle for autism justice in the city and Somali community, campaigner and Tory, Nura Aabe
The Metro-Mayor for the West of England on time in Blair's government, plans for the region and beef with other leaders
Bristol Rover’s new CEO on embracing the modern game while keeping true to traditions
New Chief Constable on crime, protest and building an "anti-sexist and anti-racist" police force
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
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
The faults of the mayoral system, Labour's past failings, and the problematic Merchant Venturers
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
On the 'free speech crisis' at universities
Undercover police spying on activists in Bristol
Working class culture, the film industry and white privilege
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
Election Special with Labour Bristol Mayor candidate Marvin Rees
Election Special with Lib Dem Bristol Mayor candidate
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
Bristol tackling the climate: Green washing or world leading
Getting emotional giving COVID jabs and 'vaccine hesitancy' in the BAME community
Marriage surviving gender transition and the dispute over transgender rights
How resisting housing evictions can lead to a better world
Men, Mental Health and Hope
SEND funding crisis, losing a candidacy and feeling hopeful
Black, Conservative and proud
New wave of racism post COVID
Hartcliffe Lad & Green Party Politician
Trinity Centre, Covid and How to Save Culture
Race, Class and Climate Change
Decolonising Education
The House is on Fire
The housing crisis and how a socialist can be ‘credible’ to housing developers
The Black activist overseeing Avon and Somerset Police
The worst two weeks in my years as a Head Teacher
'People like to see a racist punched in the face'
How sport can help save us from climate change
Bristol Unpacked with Jimmy Galvin
Bonus - Marti Burgess on Lakota's future
Bristol Unpacked with Marti Burgess
Bristol Unpacked with Delroy Hibbert
Bristol Unpacked with Cleo Lake
Bristol Unpacked Trailer