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Podcasts

The Cable is now producing weekly podcasts!

Every week we’ll be bringing you new episodes, from audio investigations and Bristol Unpacked to deep-dives into local issues and recordings of live events.

You can listen and subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Podcasts

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

The condition and availability of social housing, and how public bodies communicate with people, are important issues. How can co-design help?

Listen: The Debrief, digging deeper into revelations of institutional racism at a local NHS trust

Listen: The Debrief – how and why we’re joining a citywide campaign to tackle knife crime

Seven people stood outside a building. Two are holding Palestine flags.

Podcasts

Listen: The Debrief, as seven Palestine Action activists are found guilty of criminal damage to Bristol’s ‘murder factory’

Cable journalists discuss covering the recent 'Elbit seven' trial, which brought into sharp focus a Bristol-based arms manufacturer’s role in supplying Israel’s war in Gaza.

Area in Focus

Listen: Kingswood locals care about everything but a ‘meaningless’ by-election

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Salma Najjar on experiencing the Gaza war as a Palestinian in the UK

Listen: Cable Live, with Gary Younge talking journalism, race and power

Join the renowned writer, broadcaster and academic for a powerful talk exploring his childhood, journalism career, and how his experiences have shaped his work.

Listen: Inside Bristol’s ‘murder factory’ arms facility, with the activists on trial for occupying it

Palestine Action activists are on trial for smashing into an Elbit factory that ships weapons technologies to Israel. But at the heart of this case is the history and tragedy of Israel’s operations in Gaza, and how Bristol’s facility plays a role in the death and destruction.

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

Neil chats to Ruth, a daughter of the Windrush generation, on her decades of work with Bristol's voluntary and community groups, how that's changed as public services have been cut – and whether she feels conflicted about receiving an honour associated with empire.

Cable Live: Shon Faye talks trans liberation, mental health and diversity in journalism

Shon Faye, author of the award-winning book The Transgender Issue, joins June Tuesday for an unmissable talk on trans liberation.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with BBC journalist Lucy Proctor on mad cows, Covid and conspiracy theories

Thirty years ago, BSE was spreading across the UK while the government insisted beef was safe. Neil asks Lucy, producer of The Cows are Mad podcast, about the scandal – and how conspiracy theories have thrived as trust in the establishment has nosedived.

Listen: The full, bloody saga of rogue landlord Thomas Flight and the closure of Hidden Corner cafe

When a millionaire, yacht-owning rogue landlord evicted the owners of a well-loved St Paul's cafe, it sparked protests. Two years on, a clearer picture of the messy situation has finally emerged.

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