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Paul Stephenson is one of the most significant figures in the UK civil rights movement. Memoirs of a Black Englishman by Dr. Paul Stephenson OBE and Lilleith Morrison tells the extraordinary story of his life and protest, including the Bristol Bus Boycott , which remains one of the most positive examples of Black protest in recent British history. We talk to Lilleith about the second edition of the book, which is now available on the Tangent Books website. 

Richard and Sol discuss Bristol's guitar-driven indie music scene in the 1980's and early 90's.

This was recorded towards the end of 2020 so apologies for the outdated references to Christmas etc.

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Richard and Sol discuss IDLES' third album Ultra Mono in the final instalment of our IDLES trilogy.

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Our second instalment in the IDLES trilogy sees Richard and Sol discussing the band's second album: Joy As An Act Of Resistance.

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Richard and Sol discuss Brutalism, the phenomenal debut album of the Bristolian art-punk/indie rock outfit IDLES.

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Richard and Sol try to make sense of 2020 but end up on a series of random *tangents*, discussing Banksy's latest piece and his impact on Bristol, as well as Sol finally realising the genius of The Beatles, some films Richard's been enjoying over lockdown and a debate on what really went wrong in society in order to produce a phenomenon like Ed Sheeran. 

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Richard and Sol chat to author/journalist extraordinaire Jane Duffus about her upcoming project on Sarah Records as well as 5 amazing ordinary women from history.

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Ahoy me hearties! Join our crew of buccaneers and sea dogs as we sail the seven seas searching for the top five most bloodthirsty, ruthless and fascinating pirates to ever live and decide who comes out top as the scourge of the seven seas. Captain Mark Steeds will be manning the helm and guiding us through the saltiest, scurviest and most mutinous side of history.

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‘What’s a city without sound?’, sings Dave McDonald in his new single 'Save Our Venues', the rallying cry for music lovers everywhere to help out our city's live music venues, which have been hit hard due to closures during the COVID-19 crisis. If you're a listener of our podcast and you love music please please consider donating to The Thunderbolt crowdfunder to make sure this venue can survive. It is local venues like The Thunderbolt that keep real music alive all across the country, so we need to keep them alive too. If you can't donate, please share this video or the single. We also chat about goths, Dave's top 5 Thunderbolt performances and much more. 

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/the-thunderbolt-covid-19-appeal

This week's cover art is by the brilliant @jaz_ee_

Richard and Sol chat to Stanley Donwood and Mat Consume. The pair take us on a mesmerising journey from discount raves with brain machines in Plymouth to working with Radiohead to their recent collaborative project - the enigmatic, profound and utterly fantastic ‘Broadmead The Movie’. The film examines Bristol’s slightly outdated shopping district, transfiguring it into a sublime landscape of brutalist angles, indifferent expanses of sky, melancholy meditations on consumerism, hyperreality and existence, all accompanied by John Matthias' and Jay Auborn's moving and haunting score that evokes both medieval music and trip-hop.

We hope to do a special Tangent showing of ‘Broadmead: The Movie’ as soon as possible, so keep an eye out for that as it will be an event you won’t want to miss.

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