Bristol Unpacked
By The Bristol Cable
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Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs brings you fascinating and challenging conversations from characters of all stripes on big topics facing the city and beyond.
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Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Emma Edwards // Green Party
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Mark Weston // Conservative
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Jos Clark // Liberal Democrats
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Bristol Unpacked Election Special - Tom Renhard // Labour
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Salma Najjar on experiencing the Gaza war as a Palestinian in the UK
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Ruth Pitter on the role of the charity sector, pioneering Black theatre and her recent MBE
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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BBC journalist Lucy Proctor on mad cows, Covid and conspiracy theories
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Watershed CEO Clare Reddington on cinema, class and council cuts
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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ACORN's Wesley Bear on the Barton House evacuation and housing activism in the city
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Filmmaker Aodh Breathnach on surviving being stabbed – and documenting the aftermath
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Babbasa CEO Poku Osei on working from the inside to change the system
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Kill the Bill riots ex-prisoner, Jasmine York
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Inside the city’s Labour party machine with local fixer Kelvin Blake
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Councillor Christine Townsend, on taking on the Merchant Venturers over educational inequality
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Leftwing rabble rouser and co-founder of Bristol Transformed Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins
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May 25, 2023 |
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Bristol Cathedral's city chaplain Phil Nott, a reverend on a mission for social justice
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May 05, 2023 |
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Headteacher of Redcliffe Nursery School Sam Williams
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Labour’s Nicola Beech on who’s getting the best deal out of the city: developers or the public?
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Bristol City FC meets community and politics with James Edwards
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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The city’s new Green Party leader, Emma Edwards, on being the biggest political force in these parts
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The armed robber turned TikTok addiction mentor, Paul Simmons
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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The doctor prescribing ketamine to assist therapy, Dr Ben Sessa
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Editor of Bristol 24/7 and Hotwells election hopeful Martin Booth
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Working to welcome refugees amid the culture wars, with Fuad Mahamed, founder of Ashley Community Housing
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Local GP Dr Patrick Hart fresh from court for sabotaging a petrol station with Just Stop Oil
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Labour MP Kerry McCarthy on if Tories can be friends and the coming fights on migration, taxation and climate
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The first Black president of a county cricket club, who's had bananas thrown at him on the field
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Why journalists are striking at the corporate publisher of Bristol Live
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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A senior school leader, race specialist and equality campaigner on stopping the ‘school to prison pipeline’
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Bristol City Women's FC captain on two footing sexism in sport and growth in the women’s game
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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From the St Monica's care homes picket with a trade union organiser
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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The outgoing artistic director of Bristol Old Vic on culture, who ‘the arts’ are for and having a genius brother
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Paul Hassan, the community sector leader who says a mayor is best for the city and the vote is ‘self-indulgent’
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May 04, 2022 |
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Nicola Bowden-Jones, the ex-Labour councillor who says the mayoral system is ‘sexist and anti-democratic’
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May 03, 2022 |
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Ellie King, the Labour councillor coming out to bat for the mayoral system and take on critics
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Alex Hartley, the Lib Dem councillor that forced the vote on the future of Bristol’s political set-up
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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The slap, Bristolian accent, grief and coming home
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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The militant trade union, P&O sackings and a leftist view on Ukraine
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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The Bristolian: Unfair troll or the city's smiter of the high and mighty?
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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The struggle for autism justice in the city and Somali community, campaigner and Tory, Nura Aabe
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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The Metro-Mayor for the West of England on time in Blair's government, plans for the region and beef with other leaders
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Bristol Rover’s new CEO on embracing the modern game while keeping true to traditions
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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New Chief Constable on crime, protest and building an "anti-sexist and anti-racist" police force
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Hard decisions as council down 23 million a year
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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Living with a bank robber to a bit part in The Outlaws
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Former Bristol mayor on highs, lows, beef with Marvin, and being ‘radical’ as an ex-Merchant Venturer
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Is Drill music is driving knife crime, and how to elevate youth in the city
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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New Green Party co-leader on being a party of government as well as protest
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Why he's proud to be a big bald Bristolian making it in the industry
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Sexual entertainment, dance floor etiquette and the vital recovery of a bruised industry
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Crime, riots and institutional racism in policing
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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The faults of the mayoral system, Labour's past failings, and the problematic Merchant Venturers
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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The Special Educational Needs crisis in Bristol
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Master of the Merchant Venturers on whether they are an all powerful elite club, or just charitable business people
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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On the 'free speech crisis' at universities
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Undercover police spying on activists in Bristol
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Working class culture, the film industry and white privilege
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Pride Special - All things LGBTQ+
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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On kneeling at the Euros, and nurturing diverse football talent with leading local sports coach Rayan Wilson
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Election Special Independent and Smaller Party Mayoral Candidates
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May 04, 2021 |
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Election Special with Labour Bristol Mayor candidate
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Election Special with Lib Dem Bristol Mayor candidate
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Election Special with Green Bristol Mayor candidate
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Election Special with Conservative Bristol Mayor candidate
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Media, Meghan, racism and the Bristol History Commission facing up to the city’s past
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Ageism and intergenerational divides
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Bristol City FC and the highs and lows of the beautiful game with football journalist
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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The ‘war on woke’ and can patriotism be inclusive
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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A thorn in the side of the mayor's Administration
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Bristol tackling the climate: Green washing or world leading
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Getting emotional giving COVID jabs and 'vaccine hesitancy' in the BAME community
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Marriage surviving gender transition and the dispute over transgender rights
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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How resisting housing evictions can lead to a better world
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Men, Mental Health and Hope
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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SEND funding crisis, losing a candidacy and feeling hopeful
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Black, Conservative and proud
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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New wave of racism post COVID
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Hartcliffe Lad & Green Party Politician
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Trinity Centre, Covid and How to Save Culture
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Race, Class and Climate Change
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Decolonising Education
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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The House is on Fire
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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The housing crisis and how a socialist can be ‘credible’ to housing developers
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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The Black activist overseeing Avon and Somerset Police
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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The worst two weeks in my years as a Head Teacher
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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'People like to see a racist punched in the face'
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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How sport can help save us from climate change
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Bristol Unpacked with Jimmy Galvin
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Bonus - Marti Burgess on Lakota's future
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Bristol Unpacked with Marti Burgess
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Bristol Unpacked with Delroy Hibbert
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Bristol Unpacked with Cleo Lake
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Bristol Unpacked Trailer
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Jul 06, 2020 |