Episodes
Published 08/14/16
Bristopia returns for another episode – broadcasting from 2017, your host Andy Price once more exams the state of the country from the UK's new capital city, Bristol. This is the first show post-Brexit – will its fallout in the future be tackled? Yes, and no. By which we mean a little bit. In today's episode, Andy gives you a rundown on what's been happening here in the future in the last few weeks and how it might affect YOU, before sitting down to chat with our in studio guest this...
Published 08/14/16
The episode nobody asked for, in which American Intern Exchange Student Justin Crockler investigates the impact of the Tampon Tax in Bristol in 2017. Elsewhere, in our second show of 2017, Bristol Prime Minister Gavin McFabulous returns to discuss how he's getting on with the newly elected mayor, and his former school bully, while we also welcome pensioner Mrs Miggles onto the programme for the first time to discuss what it's like being old in the future. But before all that, your host Andy...
Published 05/30/16
Welcome back to season 2 of Bristopia! After a challenging live show closed our season 1 on an appalling note, your host Andy Price finally made it out the other side of his nervous breakdown to host the first episode of season 2. Welcome to 2017 you say? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? It means we're in the future, keep up. Seriously though, over the break Andy had a bunch of spare time and invented time travel, so season 2 of Bristopia takes place in the future: 2017. It's like the worst sci-fi ever....
Published 04/19/16
It's Bristopia's first live show! Join host Andy Price as he chats to local animal keeper and podcast favourite Bob Wildlife, local poet Richard Biscuit, Aardman Animation's number one fan Ellen Waddell, who's here to read out her very own Wallace and Gromit screenplay, and musical guest Will Harding alongside a few other special guests and old favourites. In the show we also take a look back at what's happened in Bristopia in 2015, talk about Bob and Richard's new show 'Animal Crackers', and...
Published 12/16/15
Bristopia is under threat! Find out more in American Intern Exchange Student Justin Crockler’s latest documentary on social responsibility. Before that, Andy reads the latest headlines in Bristopia, which includes gentrification in Stokes Croft, chip pan fires and the effect of plastic bag charges on the city. Then, we meet Klaus, a German man who's in the city to work behind the bar at the recently opened German Christmas market. Now, clink together your £3 deposited glasses of gluhwein and...
Published 11/12/15
In this episode of Bristopia, podcast host Andy Price is in PRISON! Taking place from HMP Horfield, Andy struggles to come to terms with his incarceration for the murder of last episode's guest. Along the way we meet his cellmate Graham, who agrees to an interview in which he reveals his involvement in the Banksy's recent Dismaland exhibition. Elsewhere, Bristopia's chief documentary maker American Intern Exchange Student Justin Crockler is struggling with his latest commission: To find new...
Published 09/24/15
In this episode of Bristopia, your host Andy speaks to a man that's getting extremely frustrated with the Aardman Animation studios, a young lady trying to make it big as a film reviewer – if only she could grasp simple film plots, Bob Wildlife returns and opens himself up to ridicule by hosting his very first Twitter Q&A, before finally, Andy and Bristopia's American Intern Exchange Student Justin Crockler talk to a business woman that helps other businesses find their niche. I mean,...
Published 08/10/15
This episode your host Andy Price meets the brand new Poet Laureate for Roadworks & Traffic Delays, invites reckless animal handler Bob Wildlife back into the studio to offer advice on Bristopia's biggest animal and non-animal (read: erectile dysfunction) problems. Elsewhere, American Intern Exchange Student Justin Crockler returns to the studio to present his latest documentary about Bristopia's latest small business venture: an events company that hosts strip poker nights for office...
Published 07/14/15
Andy finds that completing another episode of Bristopia is far too much work without the show's recently departed American intern exchange student, Justin Crockler, and takes his ex-girlfriend Producer Sally to New York City to track him down in this heart-warming radio play. Andy and Sally's goal is to win Justin back, both to the show, and into Sally's heart – however, when the pair argue over the priorities of the trip, it turns sour and Sally ends up having to take advice from a certain...
Published 06/10/15
In this action-packed episode your host Andy and Producer Sally have to deal with the fallout following the departure of Bristopia's American Intern Exchange Student Justin Crockler, who was responsible for at least 50% of Bristopia content. In response, Andy has spent all of Bristopia's petty cash on a 1:1 documentary training session with Louis Theroux and ends up on a farm talking to animals with behavioural disorders. Elsewhere Bristopia's tech team have sourced a black box recording from...
Published 05/02/15
In this episode hot tub cinema returns to Bristol! In the studio we have its creator, Jon Custard, talking about his next venture. Elsewhere, we have Betty Lovehorn in to give us some ernest advice on how to date properly in Bristol, before finally, we hand the episode, as we always do, over to our American intern exchange student Justin Crockler. This episode, Justin takes on the mass-media after the multi-million pound conglomeration Gigglepig sets up shop in Bristol. Listen to the full...
Published 04/01/15
Since the last episode our mayor has been caught speeding, despite being a proponent for 20mph speed zones. Cuh. Elsewhere, Aardman Animation's latest movie Shaun the Sheep has been released – we feature a local poet's ode to a relationship between two certain Aardman characters... Oh, and hey! The Bristol Blues and Jazz festival is coming up! We talk to Bobby Goldstack, who plays a very unusual instrument... hear him play it exclusively in this episode. Finally – we've sent our American...
Published 03/03/15
In this first episode of Bristopia, we take a look at all things Bristol, UK. From cafe openings, to green capital bids, we'll deliver the news, not necessarily as it happens, but as you want it: with punchlines, and silliness. Who doesn't want to go to a cafe that only sells porridge, right? Well – you can hear all about this new restaurant in our short documentary, delivered by American intern exchange student, Justin Crockler. We think he may have listened to too much This American Life,...
Published 02/04/15