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Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Emma Edwards // Green Party
Season 12 Episode 4
Emma Edwards is the leader of Bristol Green Party who could well be in charge of the council for the first time after May's local elections. She chat…
2 years ago
Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Mark Weston // Conservative
Season 12 Episode 3
Neil Maggs sits down with Mark Weston, who was first elected as a councillor nearly 20 years ago, and has led the local Tory party for a decade. On t…
2 years ago
Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Jos Clark // Liberal Democrats
Season 12 Episode 2
Jos Clark is an experienced local councillor now leading the Lib Dems into Bristol's local elections. A party that used to have strong support in the…
2 years ago
Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Tom Renhard // Labour
Season 12 Episode 1
Just three years after being first elected as a councillor, Labour's Tom Renhard is now leading the party into May's local elections.
Neil Maggs asks…
2 years ago
The Debrief - Transparency matters: why is Bristol City Council failing on freedom of information?
Season 1 Episode 5
It’s almost six months since the Cable asked why Bristol’s performance on FOI requests was so poor. As the city’s political system prepares to change…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Debrief - Bristol is about to ditch its mayor - with Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
Season 1 Episode 4
On 2 May 2024, Bristol will wave goodbye to its mayor and return to a committee system. Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins chats with Priyanka Raval about what w…
2 years, 1 month ago
From the archive: Cable Longreads - Could co-design help transform Bristol’s housing estates?
Season 1 Episode 4
This Cable longread – on co-design, a participatory approach to designing solutions – was first published in October 2022, and followed up on proposa…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Debrief: Institutional racism at local NHS trust
Season 1 Episode 3
Listen: The Debrief, digging deeper into revelations of institutional racism at a local NHS trust
Priyanka Raval discusses the inside story of her rec…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Debrief: Why we're joining a city-wide campaign to tackle knife crime
Season 1 Episode 2
Over just 18 days at the end of January and the start of February, three Bristol teenagers lost their lives.
Knife crime is a national issue that’s as…
2 years, 2 months ago
Cable Longreads - Institutional racism at local NHS trust
Season 1 Episode 3
This investigation, months in the making, reveals racism in Bristol hospitals.Our journalist Priyanka Raval was contacted by whistleblowers from loca…
2 years, 2 months ago