The pulling down of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol during a BLM protest has attracted mass media attention. Marvin Rees sympathised, the police watched and Boris Johnson condemned. Far-right extremists are now taking to the streets to defend similar monuments. 

This podcast will hopefully give you a bit more understanding over why the statue's presence has been the topic of such heated debate in Bristol for the last twenty years, why the statue was put up in the first place and Bristol's involvement in the slave trade.

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