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🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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One year since the toppling of the Colston statue, Matt Chorley tours the city with a long history of protests, and speaks to the mayor Marvin Rees.
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| 1:01.5 | slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm |
| 1:07.0 | Matt Cholli back from my week off. Thank you to Luke Jones for keeping the seat warm last week. |
| 1:11.3 | Today the podcast comes from Bristol, we're marking a year since this statue of the slave trailer |
| 1:17.2 | over at Coulston was toppled in the city and tumbled into the harbour. Coming up, we speak to |
| 1:23.1 | Marvin Rees, the mayor of Bristol about his reflections on the past 12 months. And I've also been |
| 1:27.9 | honest some history tour of the city to find out why it always seems to be Bristol that protests |
| 1:33.6 | over up. That's coming up. But first it's time for the communist panel. It's Monday so it must be |
| 1:37.6 | Libby Wachie. It's Libby Peris and Rachel Alvester. |
| 1:48.1 | I'll ask you at a moment who you'd like to see a statue put up to. But a little bit of breaking |
| 1:53.8 | news, literally the last few minutes, it seems as if the rebellion might be off or at least Boris Johnson |
| 2:01.0 | might have got lucky, Lucy Fisher at the day telegraph reporting that the planned tour we were |
| 2:05.8 | belling the commons today aimed at reversing the cuts to four and eight has been thwarted, |
| 2:10.1 | not because there aren't the numbers to vote it down because the clerks have decided the rebel |
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