All Episodes
The Bristol Cable — 99 episodes
Unpacked – From grassroots football to the World Cup with Liam Smith
Unpacked – Talk Club’s Gavin Thorpe: moving the dial on men’s mental health
Unpacked – Ben Carpenter: what should youth services look like?
Unpacked – Paul Smith: spending £20m and not betraying Hartcliffe
Unpacked – Yassin Mohamud: Bristol's first Somali lord mayor
Lewis Wedlock: towards a positive masculinity
Unpacked – Kerri Matthews: what happens when parents go to prison?
Unpacked – Heather Williams: trauma, community and healing in south Bristol
Unpacked – Edson Burton: what is culture and who does it belong to?
Unpacked – Joe Joyce: rugby, resilience and returning to the West Country
Unpacked – Ani Townsend: art, inequality and the case for universal basic income
Unpacked – Clare Moody: policing, power and a political cancellation
Unpacked – Bristol Temple Quarter: can regeneration be inclusive?
We’ve Got Your Boy - Episode 4 - Ain’t No One’s Friend
We’ve Got Your Boy - Episode 3 - Doli Capax (Capable of ‘Evil’)
We've Got Your Boy - Episode 2 - Can't Meet His Needs
We've Got Your Boy - Episode 1 - Hurt people, hurt people
We've Got Your Boy - Series Trailer
DIY wealth redistribution, with Bristol Redistro’s Frances Howe
Unpacked – Darren Jones: from Lawrence Weston to Starmer’s right-hand man
Unpacked - WECA Mayor Helen Godwin: redefining regional leadership and sorting out the buses
Lee Haskins: The world champ boxer who never left Lockleaze
PJDS E018: Mike Jay & the radical history of nitrous oxide
Unpacked - Mythbusting Islam & Islamophobia, with Rizwan Ahmed
PJDS E017: Comrades aren't cringe with Professor Jodi Dean
Unpacked - £20m for Hartcliffe: Kirsty Tait on climate change, class & community
PJDS E016: Ethan Shone and the Defence Against The Dark Arts
Unpacked - From Eastville to LA (via Wigan): Bristol Northern Soul Club
PJDS E015: Annie McGann and why you should get out more
Unpacked - Kalpna Woolf: From migrant kid in London to High Sheriff of Bristol
PJDS - E014: Taj Ali and the hope in the heart of Luton
Unpacked - A year of Green power in Bristol with council leader Tony Dyer
PJDS: MAGA? MWEGA? WECA? Undercover in Reform UK with Sian Norris
Unpacked: What is a citizens' assembly and how do they work?
PJDS - The Great Baldini & the Cribbs Causeway Tesla takedown
Unpacked - Cider, Jet skis and the WECA Mayoral Election: BBC journalist Pete Simson
PJDS *SPECIAL* Peaceful resistance in the face of Genocide with Iyad Burnat
Unpacked: Legendary Bristol photographer Colin Moody
The Debrief - The Doctors fighting for Barton House residents
Unpacked - from the archive: Carla Denyer becomes Green party co-leader (2021)
The Debrief - The Filton 18: The more you oppress people, the more they will rise
Unpacked from the archive: Jayde Adams, the slap, Bristolian accent, grief and coming home
PJDS: Pause for the cause - season break and updates
Bristol Unpacked: Barrister Lucy Reed on opening up the secretive family courts
PJDS E012: Door to door divestment: the mum and dad building a boycott for Palestine
Dr Patrick Hart: Just Stop Oil petrol station sabotage court case - From the archives
PJDS E011 - How to embed the left in the blockchain, with Joshua Dávila
Bristol Unpacked: Ex-Lord Mayor Paul Goggin talks homelessness and mental health
PJDS E010: Striking teacher Nik & the ethical gravy train of trade unionism
PJDS E009: Jake Hanrahan is not just a gritty Louis Theroux
Bristol Unpacked - Amanda Sharman on leading the charge for boat dwellers' rights
PJDS E008: How to smash the patriarchy for good with Meg & Bryony from SLEEC
Bristol Unpacked: Samira Musse on community power and giving children confidence
PJDS E007: Led by Donkeys and the guerrilla story wars
Bristol Unpacked: Barry Parsons on Green Party power in Bristol – and whether they can do anything about the housing crisis
The Debrief - Barton House One Year on: The enduring trauma and the search for justice
The Debrief - The leaked report on racist policing
The Debrief - Has the council kept its promise to boot out bailiffs?
The Debrief - The campaign to end suspicionless stop & search
The Debrief - Race riots and union resistance with Adam Quarshie
The Debrief - No far right in sight; Bristol's victory over hatred
Cable Live - Mikaela Loach: It's not that radical
Cable Longreads - 'Hollow victory’: a rape survivor’s journey through a broken criminal justice system
Cable Live X Bristol Transformed - Apartheid-Free Zones in Bristol
The Debrief - General election results w/Matty Edwards
Cable Live - Shelter housing hustings w/Neil Maggs - GE24 Bristol Central
Area in focus - General Election Special - Northeast Somerset & Hanham
Cable Live X Bristol Transformed - Who are the terrorists?
Cable Live X Bristol Transformed - Spy Cops with Tom Fowler
Cable Live - An evening with Owen Jones
The Debrief - General election kicks off with Matty Edwards
Cable Live - Take Drugs Seriously with David Nutt
Area in focus - The fight for the St Paul's Dentist
The Debrief - Local election results 2024 with Matty Edwards
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
The Debrief - Transparency matters: why is Bristol City Council failing on freedom of information?
The Debrief - Bristol is about to ditch its mayor - with Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
From the archive: Cable Longreads - Could co-design help transform Bristol’s housing estates?
The Debrief: Institutional racism at local NHS trust
The Debrief: Why we're joining a city-wide campaign to tackle knife crime
Cable Longreads - Institutional racism at local NHS trust
The Debrief - Bristol's murder factory
Area in Focus - Kingswood, a constituency facing extinction
Bristol Unpacked - Salma Najjar on experiencing the Gaza war as a Palestinian in the UK
Cable Live - Gary Younge talks journalism, race and power
Cable Longreads - Inside Bristol’s ‘murder factory’ arms facility, with the activists on trial for occupying it
Bristol Unpacked - Ruth Pitter on the role of the charity sector, pioneering Black theatre and her recent MBE
Cable Live - Shon Faye on Trans Liberation & Diversity Journalism
Bristol Unpacked - BBC journalist Lucy Proctor on mad cows, Covid and conspiracy theories
Cable Longreads - The full, bloody story behind the closure of Hidden Corner cafe
Bristol Unpacked - Watershed CEO Clare Reddington on cinema, class and council cuts
Bristol Unpacked - ACORN's Wesley Bear on the Barton House evacuation and housing activism in the city
Cable Live - The Future of Campaigning Journalism with Moya Lothian-McLean
Cable Live - What Bristol can learn from Grenfell with Peter Apps
Bristol Unpacked - Filmmaker Aodh Breathnach on surviving being stabbed – and documenting the aftermath
Area in Focus - East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood scheme