Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLocal GP Dr Patrick Hart fresh from court for sabotaging a petrol station with Just Stop Oil
Season 9 Episode 5
Just Stop Oil protestors have been disrupting business as usual since April 2022. A Daily Mail columnist called them “a deranged criminal eco-terrori…
3 years, 3 months ago
Labour MP Kerry McCarthy on if Tories can be friends and the coming fights on migration, taxation and climate
Season 9 Episode 4
Kerry McCarthy, the Labour MP for Bristol East, is the city’s longest serving representative in Westminster. Sometimes described as a ‘Brownite’ havi…
3 years, 4 months ago
The first Black president of a county cricket club, who's had bananas thrown at him on the field
Season 9 Episode 3
From striking fear into the hearts of opponents with fearsome fast bowls to a gruesome career ending injury forcing retirement at 29, David ‘Syd’ Law…
3 years, 5 months ago
Why journalists are striking at the corporate publisher of Bristol Live
Season 9 Episode 2
Reach PLC is one of the largest commercial publishers in the UK, which owns household brands like the Mirror and the Daily Star as well as the majori…
3 years, 6 months ago
A senior school leader, race specialist and equality campaigner on stopping the ‘school to prison pipeline’
Season 9 Episode 1
When does bad behaviour get so serious that a young person should be permanently excluded from the mainstream school system? No More Exclusions, a ca…
3 years, 6 months ago
Bristol City Women's FC captain on two footing sexism in sport and growth in the women’s game
Season 8 Episode 3
Women’s football was banned by the Football Association in 1921. Lasting for 50 years, the grandees of the football establishment deemed the sport “q…
3 years, 8 months ago
From the St Monica's care homes picket with a trade union organiser
Season 8 Episode 2
Suddenly everyone is talking about trade unions in the struggle over who will bear the brunt of the cost of living crisis. We speak to someone at the…
3 years, 8 months ago
The outgoing artistic director of Bristol Old Vic on culture, who ‘the arts’ are for and having a genius brother
Season 8 Episode 1
Tom Morris says he has an “almost indecent passion” for Bristol Old Vic, the oldest theatre in continuous operation in the English speaking world. Bu…
3 years, 8 months ago
Paul Hassan, the community sector leader who says a mayor is best for the city and the vote is ‘self-indulgent’
Season 7 Episode 4
Opposition councillors say they have been shut out of scrutinising and making decisions, but Paul Hassan says the mayoral system has provided a focal…
3 years, 10 months ago
Nicola Bowden-Jones, the ex-Labour councillor who says the mayoral system is ‘sexist and anti-democratic’
Season 7 Episode 3
Nicola Bowden-Jones was at the heart of Bristol’s Labour Party for years, but is now at odds with the city’s Labour administration in a big way. Havi…
3 years, 10 months ago