Bristol History Podcast

26/03/2024

New pod on Hilda Cashmore, out now!

This week I met with Helen Meller, Professor Emerita of Urban History Nottingham University to discuss the life of Hilda Cashmore - the pioneering founder of Bristol’s Barton Hill Settlement – which s

10/01/2024

https://www.bcfmradio.com/podcast/bristol-for-the-record

Some great oral history interviews here, courtesy of BCfm Radio!

Over a two-year period, BCfm Radio recorded 28 oral history interviews.

14/09/2023

https://hdfst.uk/e93822

A lights-out communal listening event celebrating local stories from Bristol-based producers. BCfm Radio with The Bristol Cable and Bristol History Podcast commissioned local creatives working in the areas of sound, radio, podcasts and local heritage to produce a short audio documentary on overlooke...

26/07/2023

https://thebristolcable.org/2023/07/listen-the-sound-of-saffron-by-charlie-west/

BCfm Radio's podcast series Your Bristol Life is back in partnership with The Bristol Cable and Bristol History Podcast.

As part of this series of podcasts about under-represented parts of Bristol’s history, Charlie West investigates the work of Saffron.

18/07/2023

BCfm Radio podcast series Your Bristol Life is back in partnership with The Bristol Cable and Bristol History Podcast

https://thebristolcable.org/2023/07/listen-bristol-boys-life-disability-muscular-dystrophy-by-richard-prior/

Local lad Richard Prior is blessed with a wonderful family and two beautiful daughters who bring love and laughter to him every day. But he also suffers from hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy – a condition that causes degenerative muscle weakness, restricting movement and causing constant pain.

This episode examines how the family cope with the condition, as they suffer also due to the genetic nature of the condition. We hear about growing up with a visible disability and how it can impact on school life and more. Richard’s parents share how they felt trying to support him over the years and how they had to make difficult decisions.

Richard is a very proud Bristolian, but how accessible is the city for a disabled person?

A life full of ups and downs. This is Richard’s story.

Listen: Richard's story of living with hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, a disability that causes degenerative muscle weakness.

11/07/2023

BCfm's podcast series Your Bristol Life is back in partnership with The Bristol Cable and Bristol History Podcast.

https://thebristolcable.org/2023/07/listen-a-short-history-of-purple-penguin-the-record-shop-at-the-heart-of-the-bristol-sound/

You have all heard about the Bristol Sound, and the Bristol street art scene is well documented. But have you heard of the small record shop that was at the heart of it all?

Peter Hall presents this short history of Purple Penguin. A tale of community, creativity and underground culture.

The tale of the Purple Penguin record shop in Bristol is one of community, creativity and underground culture.

04/07/2023

BCfm Radio's podcast series Your Bristol Life is back in partnership with The Bristol Cable and Bristol History Podcast.

https://thebristolcable.org/2023/07/listen-love-her-how-weekenders-bristol-created-space-for-women-music/

As part of this series of podcasts about underrepresented parts of Bristol’s history, this is a homage to Weekenders, a women’s music night that started in the late 90s.

Weekenders was a women's acoustic night in 1990s Bristol. After making a home in St Werburghs, it became a unique lesbian-friendly space.

26/06/2023

https://thebristolcable.org/2023/06/listen-lchaim-my-lovers-jewish-history-bristol/

BCfm Radio's podcast series Your Bristol Life is back in partnership with The Bristol Cable and Bristol History Podcast.

Local artist and writer Tom Chachewitz presents a brief history of Jewish life in the city.

As part of this series about underrepresented parts of Bristol's history, local artist and writer Tom Chachewitz presents a brief history of Jewish life in the city.

28/04/2023

https://soundcloud.com/bristolhistorypodcast/episode-59-sabrina-goddess-of-the-river-severn

New pod on Sabrina, Goddess of the River Severn, out now!

Check out Nicola Haasz's work on Sabrina here:
https://www.facebook.com/SabrinaRiverGoddess

The Severn is the longest river in the UK and from its source in the Cambrian mountains in mid Wales, it flows down through Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire before eventually reaching th

10/03/2023

https://www.bcfmradio.com/blog/paid-commissions

Opportunity for all aspiring podcasters!

BCfm Radio is offering paid commissions to local audio creatives and producers to develop work to celebrate the history of Bristol and surrounding areas.

13/12/2022

New pod on the postwar squatting movement in Bristol out now!

Author Eugene Byrne discusses the squatting movement in Bristol in the summer of 1946, which saw hundreds of people occupy ex-military bases.

20/09/2022

https://thebristolcable.org/2022/09/listen-henrietta-lacks-by-daniel-edmund/

New Your Bristol Life pod - on Henrietta Lacks - out now!

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.

15/09/2022

In this audio documentary, five women taking space in Bristol’s skateboarding scene speak to Jazlyn Pinckney. Some have just picked up a board for the first time, others have been skating for decades.

05/09/2022

First podcast the exciting new 'Your Bristol Life' series which shine a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol’s history.

Episode 1 - The Bristolian Refugee by Sam Sayer

https://thebristolcable.org/2022/09/podcast-listen-the-bristolian-refugee-by-sam-sayer/

This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.

Your Bristol Life is a new series of five podcasts shining a light on underrepresented aspects of Bristol's history. This BCfm series was made with the Bristol Cable, Bristol History Podcast and In The Dark.

03/08/2022

RIP Roy Hackett
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-62397167

Tributes are paid to "humble freedom fighter" Mr Hackett, one of the Bristol Bus Boycott organisers.

25/07/2022

New pod on Thomas Chatterton - out now!

https://thebristolcable.org/2022/07/listen-bristol-history-podcast-thomas-chatterton-poet/

Born in Redcliffe in 1752, Chatterton produced a great body of poems, plays and prose works before his death as a teenager.

20/04/2022

New pod, on poet Ann Yearsley out now!

https://thebristolcable.org/2022/04/listen-ann-yearsley-the-working-class-bristol-poet-who-took-on-the-slave-trade/

Brycchan Carey, Professor of English at Northumbria University, talks about the life and work of 18th century Bristolian poet and milkwoman, Ann Yearsley.

08/04/2022

Exciting opportunity - and only a few days left to apply!

https://www.bcfmradio.com/blog/paid-commissions

BCfm Radio are offering paid commissions to local audio creatives and producers to develop work to celebrate the history of Bristol and surrounding areas.

02/03/2022

New podcast on hot air ballooning, out now!

https://thebristolcable.org/2022/03/listen-meet-don-cameron-bristols-ballooning-pioneer/

Cameron Balloons created of the first modern hot air balloon in Western Europe, and it has since become a beloved symbol of the city.

27/10/2021

New pod on LGBTQ history in Bristol, out now!

https://thebristolcable.org/2021/10/listen-telling-the-stories-from-bristol-lgbtq-people-from-going-back-300-years/

Andrew Foyle from Outstories Bristol, a volunteer community history group, discusses the stories of LGBTQ people throughout Bristol’s history from the 17th century to the present day.

23/08/2021

New pod on the legacies of slavery wealth, out now!

https://thebristolcable.org/2021/08/bristol-history-podcast-slavery-industry-edward-protheroe/

The hidden history of how the family wealth of Edward Protheroe, famous coal industrialist in the Forest of Dean, was built on the slave trade and labour of enslaved people on sugar plantations.

05/07/2021

New pod on Bristol's Dispensaries, out now! https://thebristolcable.org/2021/07/bristol-history-podcast-listen-the-dispensaries-healthcare-in-bristol-before-the-nhs/

This week I met with Dr Michael Whitfield to discuss Bristol's dispensaries. For the two hundred years or so before the creation of the NHS in 1948, the dispensaries were one of the main providers of healthcare in Britain, especially for its poorest people. We discussed how the dispensaries operated...

29/03/2021

New Pod on the history of state surveillance - out now!

https://thebristolcable.org/2021/03/bristol-history-podcast-state-surveillance-in-bristol-and-beyond/

This week I spoke with Colin Thomas and Tim Beasley of the Bristol Radical History Group to discuss the history of state surveillance in their...

08/03/2021

News about a very interesting pamphlet forthcoming from the Bristol Radical History Group (note there will be a pod on this in the near future!)

https://www.brh.org.uk/site/events/webinar-pamphlet-launch-state-snooping-spooks-cops-and-double-agents/

  “State snooping has increased, is increasing and ought to be decreased.” So argue Colin Thomas and Tim Beasley in the fifty-first pamphlet produced by the Bristol Radical History Group. It begins with the way that the government of Elizabeth 1 planted double agents amongst dissident Catholic ...

15/02/2021

Podcast number 50(!) on the Bristol Blitz - out now!

https://thebristolcable.org/2021/02/bristol-history-podcast-the-bristol-blitz/

2020 marked the eightieth anniversary of the Bristol Blitz, which saw 77 N**i air raids on the city, with six major raids taking place in the winter of 1940-41. I spoke with Eugene Byrne of the Bristol Post to discuss the origins of the Blitz and how Bristolians coped with being bombed. We also expl...

25/01/2021

New pod - on Angela Carter and counterculture in the West Country - out now!

https://thebristolcable.org/2021/01/bristol-history-podcast-west-country-counterculture-in-the-1960s-and-70s-angela-carter/

Explore 'the artistic, radical and experimental communities that flourished at the time.'