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The Bristol Cable — 95 episodes

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Unpacked – Yassin Mohamud: Bristol's first Somali lord mayor

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Lewis Wedlock: towards a positive masculinity

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Unpacked – Kerri Matthews: what happens when parents go to prison?

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Unpacked – Heather Williams: trauma, community and healing in south Bristol

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Unpacked – Edson Burton: what is culture and who does it belong to?

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Unpacked – Joe Joyce: rugby, resilience and returning to the West Country

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Unpacked – Ani Townsend: art, inequality and the case for universal basic income

8

Unpacked – Clare Moody: policing, power and a political cancellation

9

Unpacked – Bristol Temple Quarter: can regeneration be inclusive?

10

We’ve Got Your Boy - Episode 4 - Ain’t No One’s Friend

11

We’ve Got Your Boy - Episode 3 - Doli Capax (Capable of ‘Evil’)

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We've Got Your Boy - Episode 2 - Can't Meet His Needs

13

We've Got Your Boy - Episode 1 - Hurt people, hurt people

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We've Got Your Boy - Series Trailer

15

DIY wealth redistribution, with Bristol Redistro’s Frances Howe

16

Unpacked – Darren Jones: from Lawrence Weston to Starmer’s right-hand man

17

Unpacked - WECA Mayor Helen Godwin: redefining regional leadership and sorting out the buses

18

Lee Haskins: The world champ boxer who never left Lockleaze

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PJDS E018: Mike Jay & the radical history of nitrous oxide

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Unpacked - Mythbusting Islam & Islamophobia, with Rizwan Ahmed

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PJDS E017: Comrades aren't cringe with Professor Jodi Dean

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Unpacked - £20m for Hartcliffe: Kirsty Tait on climate change, class & community

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PJDS E016: Ethan Shone and the Defence Against The Dark Arts

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Unpacked - From Eastville to LA (via Wigan): Bristol Northern Soul Club

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PJDS E015: Annie McGann and why you should get out more

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Unpacked - Kalpna Woolf: From migrant kid in London to High Sheriff of Bristol

27

PJDS - E014: Taj Ali and the hope in the heart of Luton

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Unpacked - A year of Green power in Bristol with council leader Tony Dyer

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PJDS: MAGA? MWEGA? WECA? Undercover in Reform UK with Sian Norris

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Unpacked: What is a citizens' assembly and how do they work?

31

PJDS - The Great Baldini & the Cribbs Causeway Tesla takedown

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Unpacked - Cider, Jet skis and the WECA Mayoral Election: BBC journalist Pete Simson

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PJDS *SPECIAL* Peaceful resistance in the face of Genocide with Iyad Burnat

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Unpacked: Legendary Bristol photographer Colin Moody

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The Debrief - The Doctors fighting for Barton House residents

36

Unpacked - from the archive: Carla Denyer becomes Green party co-leader (2021)

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The Debrief - The Filton 18: The more you oppress people, the more they will rise

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Unpacked from the archive: Jayde Adams, the slap, Bristolian accent, grief and coming home

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PJDS: Pause for the cause - season break and updates

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Bristol Unpacked: Barrister Lucy Reed on opening up the secretive family courts

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PJDS E012: Door to door divestment: the mum and dad building a boycott for Palestine

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Dr Patrick Hart: Just Stop Oil petrol station sabotage court case - From the archives

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PJDS E011 - How to embed the left in the blockchain, with Joshua Dávila

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Bristol Unpacked: Ex-Lord Mayor Paul Goggin talks homelessness and mental health

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PJDS E010: Striking teacher Nik & the ethical gravy train of trade unionism

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PJDS E009: Jake Hanrahan is not just a gritty Louis Theroux

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Bristol Unpacked - Amanda Sharman on leading the charge for boat dwellers' rights

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PJDS E008: How to smash the patriarchy for good with Meg & Bryony from SLEEC

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Bristol Unpacked: Samira Musse on community power and giving children confidence

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PJDS E007: Led by Donkeys and the guerrilla story wars

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Bristol Unpacked: Barry Parsons on Green Party power in Bristol – and whether they can do anything about the housing crisis

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The Debrief - Barton House One Year on: The enduring trauma and the search for justice

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The Debrief - The leaked report on racist policing

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The Debrief - Has the council kept its promise to boot out bailiffs?

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The Debrief - The campaign to end suspicionless stop & search

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The Debrief - Race riots and union resistance with Adam Quarshie

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The Debrief - No far right in sight; Bristol's victory over hatred

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Cable Live - Mikaela Loach: It's not that radical

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Cable Longreads - 'Hollow victory’: a rape survivor’s journey through a broken criminal justice system

60

Cable Live X Bristol Transformed - Apartheid-Free Zones in Bristol

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The Debrief - General election results w/Matty Edwards

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Cable Live - Shelter housing hustings w/Neil Maggs - GE24 Bristol Central

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Area in focus - General Election Special - Northeast Somerset & Hanham

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Cable Live X Bristol Transformed - Who are the terrorists?

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Cable Live X Bristol Transformed - Spy Cops with Tom Fowler

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Cable Live - An evening with Owen Jones

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The Debrief - General election kicks off with Matty Edwards

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Cable Live - Take Drugs Seriously with David Nutt

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Area in focus - The fight for the St Paul's Dentist

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The Debrief - Local election results 2024 with Matty Edwards

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Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Emma Edwards // Green Party

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Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Mark Weston // Conservative

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Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Jos Clark // Liberal Democrats

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Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Tom Renhard // Labour

75

The Debrief - Transparency matters: why is Bristol City Council failing on freedom of information?

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The Debrief - Bristol is about to ditch its mayor - with Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins

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From the archive: Cable Longreads - Could co-design help transform Bristol’s housing estates?

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The Debrief: Institutional racism at local NHS trust

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The Debrief: Why we're joining a city-wide campaign to tackle knife crime

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Cable Longreads - Institutional racism at local NHS trust

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The Debrief - Bristol's murder factory

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Area in Focus - Kingswood, a constituency facing extinction

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Bristol Unpacked - Salma Najjar on experiencing the Gaza war as a Palestinian in the UK

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Cable Live - Gary Younge talks journalism, race and power

85

Cable Longreads - Inside Bristol’s ‘murder factory’ arms facility, with the activists on trial for occupying it

86

Bristol Unpacked - Ruth Pitter on the role of the charity sector, pioneering Black theatre and her recent MBE

87

Cable Live - Shon Faye on Trans Liberation & Diversity Journalism

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Bristol Unpacked - BBC journalist Lucy Proctor on mad cows, Covid and conspiracy theories

89

Cable Longreads - The full, bloody story behind the closure of Hidden Corner cafe

90

Bristol Unpacked - Watershed CEO Clare Reddington on cinema, class and council cuts

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Bristol Unpacked - ACORN's Wesley Bear on the Barton House evacuation and housing activism in the city

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Cable Live - The Future of Campaigning Journalism with Moya Lothian-McLean

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Cable Live - What Bristol can learn from Grenfell with Peter Apps

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Bristol Unpacked - Filmmaker Aodh Breathnach on surviving being stabbed – and documenting the aftermath

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Area in Focus - East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood scheme