As Bristol City Council slashes spending on venues including arthouse cinema Watershed, Neil asks its boss Clare why funding the arts matters, and whether the sector’s reputation as catering mainly to ...
Listen: People Just Do Something – Isaac meets the Great Baldini at Cribbs Causeway’s Tesla Takedown
You know where you are with this podcast. It’s all there in the title: People Just Do Something. But are all kinds of activism worth the effort? Or are there some activities that leave even your ...
Bobby Sands died in May 1981 after more than two months on hunger strike in a Northern Ireland prison hospital. A member of the Provisional IRA, he starved himself in protest at the British state’s ...
In early 2024, three teenage boys were fatally stabbed on Bristol’s streets within 18 days. It was a grim start to the new year – one that thrust the issue of serious youth violence in the city ...
Barton Hill’s tower blocks are one of the most prominent features of Bristol’s skyline, but despite the fact they can be seen from miles around, some residents feel invisible – ignored to the point of ...
It’s 3am on a February night in an ordinary Bristol house. Emily’s* boyfriend has called an ambulance but not bothered to wake her mum, who is shocked to find paramedics banging at her door. Emily has ...
Cricket’s past is tangled with colonialism, a key root of climate change. Now, it’s the pitch sport most at risk from global heating – but a group based in Bristol are working to highlight the threats ...
Poku Osei transitioned from hustling to sell sugar and DVDs in Ghana to running one of Bristol’s most celebrated social enterprises. Babbasa focuses on helping young people access and thrive with new ...
Until the mid-1800s, more people in Bristol generally died than survived infancy. Accidents and violence killed some, but far more died of diseases resulting from cramped living conditions, poor ...
Like anyone in Bristol who holds the apparently radical opinion that genocide is wrong, and has a passing interest in the news, I was genuinely surprised by the furore that erupted around the ...
“The BBC has a duty to inform the public, not to sanitise genocide.” So read a placard outside BBC Bristol’s Clifton offices last year during a protest against the broadcaster’s coverage of Israel’s ...
Image: Painting by Francis Greenway of a mock trial in Newgate Prison, Bristol, 1812, held at the State Library of New South Wales Two hundred years ago, work began on what is now regarded as one of ...
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