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Unpacked from the archive: Jayde Adams, the slap, Bristolian accent, grief and coming home

Mar 10 2025 54 mins

From the archive April 2022"As the slap reverberates around the world we talk all things comedy with Jayde Adams - who went from working in Asda Bedminster to her own Amazon Prime Special. She just starred in a new BBC documentary following her move back to Bristol. Going deep about how the death of her sister made her so driven, are there red lines in comedy, and what it is like c

PJDS: Pause for the cause - season break and updates

Mar 02 2025 1 mins

Producer George is having a week off and the team is busy planning the next batch of guests and an exciting development for the series...Mystery button

Bristol Unpacked: Barrister Lucy Reed on opening up the secretive family courts

Feb 24 2025 67 mins

Lucy Reed is a barrister in the family courts, where separating couples hammer out child custody arrangements and where, in one of the most severe decisions the state can take, orders are made to take children into care, separating them from their families. On 27 January, journalists were for the first time allowed, with some restrictions, to report from any family court across Eng

PJDS E012: Door to door divestment: the mum and dad building a boycott for Palestine

Feb 17 2025 54 mins

As pro-Palestine marches began ‘shrinking’ last year, St Paul’s residents Matt and Sasha drew on their experiences community organising with the ACORN union to try a different way of influencing public opinion. Inspired by their neighbourhood’s history of mobilising against South African apartheid, they hit the streets to knock on doors and chat to shopkeepers, in a bid to

Dr Patrick Hart: Just Stop Oil petrol station sabotage court case - From the archives

Feb 10 2025 50 mins

From the archives - an updateToday we bring you an episode from the archives with Dr Patrick Hart. Patrick took action in August 2022 to demand an end to new licences and consents for oil and gas projects in the UK, something which has subsequently become government policy. He disabled petrol pumps at an Esso garage on the M25 on the 24th August 2022.On August 24, 2022, he disabled

PJDS E011 - How to embed the left in the blockchain, with Joshua Dávila

Feb 03 2025 52 mins

Crypto is everywhere just now, after reinstalled President Trump’s recent pronouncements on the subject – including launching his own meme coin, which has soared in value. That’s great, because it gives PJDS a rare aura of being bang on the news agenda, as we sit down with Joshua Dávila, author of Blockchain Radicals, How Capitalism Ruined Crypto And How We Can Fix It. Join

Bristol Unpacked: Ex-Lord Mayor Paul Goggin talks homelessness and mental health

Jan 27 2025 67 mins

It’s the coldest time of the year, and Bristol’s homelessness crisis is as bleak as ever. How does it feel to be out on the streets? This week, Neil puts the question to Paul Goggin, ex-Lord Mayor of Bristol, who went through a period of sleeping rough after a relationship breakdown. Goggin has also been open about his mental health struggles – does the UK need a different ap

PJDS E010: Striking teacher Nik & the ethical gravy train of trade unionism

Jan 20 2025 57 mins

Gen Z listeners, do you actually know what a strike is? If not, we’ve got just the episode for you. PJDS this week features Bristol teacher Nik, National Education Union rep and co-host of the Requires Improvement podcast, who joins Isaac with his feet still freezing cold from standing on a picket line in January. So how does one go about organising workers? What is the point of

PJDS E009: Jake Hanrahan is not just a gritty Louis Theroux

Dec 23 2024 65 mins

“I’m definitely not an activist,” says Jake Hanrahan at the start of this week’s episode, pushing back hard on People Just Do Something’s tagline of being about people who might identify as one. Either way, Jake, who founded grassroots conflict media organisation Popular Front, is a fascinating character. What led him in his twenties to decide to be a war reporter? What d

Bristol Unpacked - Amanda Sharman on leading the charge for boat dwellers' rights

Dec 15 2024 56 mins

Bristol is famous for being a maritime city, and its harbour – a vast area of water and historic docklands regenerated from dereliction since the 1990s – draws tourists from all over the world. But who are the people living on the many vessels moored there? What has led them to choose a boat-dwelling life? And why are they protesting against how the council is managing the harb