About this podcast
People Just Do Something is a relaxing and possibly enraging podcast about people who might self-identify as activists. Join professional busybody Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins, The Bristol Cable’s in-house Columbo, Priyanka Raval and a special guest each week as they attempt to untangle the means of effecting change in Bristol, broken Britain and beyond.
Episodes release ever other week with the first season spanning 6 episodes.
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Episodes
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- Summer break · 2 min · Episode 35We're taking a break for the rest of the summer and will be back in September! The Bristol Cable is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers. Become a…
- E034: Hunting the hunt: with Bristol’s Hunt Saboteurs (part two) · 57 min · Episode 34We’re back for a second episode with Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins as he joins Bristol’s Hunt Saboteurs for the day. Isaac manages to talk to some voices on the other side of the…
- E033: Hunting the hunt: with Bristol’s Hunt Saboteurs (part one) · 48 min · Episode 33Every week during hunting season, hundreds of riders take part in the Beaufort Hunt, one of the largest hunts in the country. In the first episode of this two-part special, Isaac…
- E032: LIVE with Kojo Karam and Dr Mary Ryder on the war on drugs · 1 h 12 min · Episode 32The Cable’s trailblazing activismcast continues its rabble-rousing run with Kojo Karam and Transform’s Dr Mary Ryder. In this episode, we trace the changing global terrain of…
- E031: LIVE with Aman Sethi, Banseka Kayemba and Liz Pendleton on the state of the media · 1 h 11 min · Episode 31We’re living in an age of media capture. Rupert Murdoch built newsrooms that ran on scandal, entrapment, and phone hacking, filling tabloids with “tits and gossip”. In return for…
- E030: LIVE with Rob Miller and the Cuba Solidarity Campaign · 1 h 13 min · Episode 30This week we explore the nuts and bolts of international solidarity. Cuba Solidarity Campaign director Rob Miller delivers a crash course on the country’s revolutionary legacy…
- E029: Why Health Workers For A Free Palestine are campaigning against Palantir · 1 h 10 min · Episode 29In this episode, Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins speaks to a former NHS data analyst about Palantir’s growing role in the NHS. We learn why Health Workers For A Free Palestine are…
- E028: Tegan Vincent-Cooke on becoming Jamaica’s first para dressage-rider and finding Coco · 57 min · Episode 28Para equestrian Tegan Vincent-Cooke first began riding at the age of four as part of her physiotherapy for quadriplegic cerebral palsy. In this episode, Tegan tells Priyanka…
- E027: LIVE from City Hall: LaToyah McAllister-Jones on citizens’ assemblies · 1 h 0 min · Episode 27This week we’re throwing the doors of City Hall wide open with Carnival executive director LaToyah McAllister-Jones. In this episode, LaToyah discusses the Citizens of Culture…
- E026: Benn Trowell on the Global Sumud Flotilla and being detained at sea · 1 h 11 min · Episode 26Bristol-based activist Ben Trowell has just returned home after being detained by the Israel Defence Forces in international waters near Crete. In this episode, Ben speaks to…
- E024: Life of the Party on the disaster of Your Party and the rise of the Greens · 1 h 8 min · Episode 24The team from Life of the Party join us for a live recording in conjunction with our friends at Bristol Transformed. In this episode, Jonas and Joe tell us what really went wrong…
- E023: Sarah Jaffe on love in the time of fascism · 1 h 3 min · Episode 23Journalist and author Sarah Jaffe joins us for a live recording at Jikoni East Africa where we chat about commodified connection, manufactured isolation, and how we create true…
- E022: Nicholas Beuret on disrupting the climate transition · 1 h 10 min · Episode 22Activist scholar and lecturer at the University of Essex, Nicholas Buret joins us for a live podcast recording at the Cube. With a focus on justice labour rights and ecological…
- E021: Onboard the Global Sumud Flotilla with Mathilda Mallinson · 1 h 1 min · Episode 21Special guest Mathilda Mallinson discusses her time on board the historic Global Sumud Flotilla where she was reporting for Middle East Eye. The 42-strong pro-Palestinian…
- E020: Veronica Wignall on Bristol’s billboards and reclaiming public spaces · 1 h 6 min · Episode 20As co-director of Adfree cities, Veronica Wignall and her team campaign to reclaim public spaces from corporate advertising. During a live podcast recording at the Cube, Veronica…
- E019: Ros Martin on challenging LEGO and the toppling of Colston · 1 h 3 min · Episode 19Award‑winning playwright, poet, and artist Ros Martin shares stories from a lifetime of resistance. From her London childhood, to her work as a social worker and how she ended up…
- *SPECIAL* Steve Jackson - Fear and loathing at the Green Party Conference · 1 h 30 min · Episode 3Isaac finds himself at the Green Party conference in Brighton. The main interview is with the co-founder of Greens Organise, Steve Jackson. GO are organising the left within the…
- E018: Pride is a protest: Black pride in Bristol · 1 h 20 min · Episode 18As Pride becomes more visible each year, it risks leaving behind the very people who helped build it. Too often, Pride ignores the deep inequalities within its own institutions…
- E017: Mike Jay & the radical history of nitrous oxide · 1 h 3 min · Episode 17So, this is a bit of a break from the usual, but we figured the lessons we can learn from radicals 200 years ago are every bit as relevant as those from today. Isaac is back out…
- E016: Comrades aren't cringe with Professor Jodi Dean · 59 min · Episode 16[TRIGGER WARNING: Communism] This episode comes from our last live show where we had international super comrade, professor Jodi Dean, blessing us with a discussion focussed on…
