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Levanna McLean and Eve Arslett of Bristol Northern Soul Club discuss the scene’s resurgence in the city and beyond.
Annie McGann talks formative experiences, the thrill of finding your tribe in the small hours, and activism on the council’s ...
Sound system culture arrived in Bristol with the Windrush Generation, becoming an integral part of the city and a testament ...
The American Civil War ended 160 years ago with the Union victorious and slavery abolished. But many Bristolians supported ...
Neil chats to Kalpna Woolf on her journey from Southall immigrant kid to BBC head of production, food author and boardroom ...
A lot of water has passed under the bridge since the last time we had local Green Party councillor Tony Dyer as a guest on Unpacked. Back then, in November 2020, Donald Trump had just been defeated in ...
The East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood (EBLN) was designed to make the area safer and encourage active travel like cycling, giving priority to pedestrians over cars to improve the environment locally ...
It’s 10 days until the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) mayoral election which, as this week’s Unpacked guest, BBC journalist Pete Simson, points out, was in danger of being a pretty dull ...
As the winter of 1995 drew in, a group of Bristol’s anarchist squatters started to talk about where to go next. One comrade heard that a building at 14 Robertson Road, which had previously housed the ...
In 2022 a BBC series aired in which former England cricketer Freddie Flintoff went back to his hometown, Preston, to see if he could use cricket to help young lads with limited opportunities. It was ...