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News imageThe Documentary Podcast, The Carnival: 50 Years in St Pauls

The Documentary Podcast

The Carnival: 50 Years in St Pauls


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24 November 2018

50 minutes

Available for over a year

Narrated by Bristol’s first poet laureate Miles Chambers, from costumes to sound systems this tale looks at the history of the St Pauls Carnival, meets the family of four generations who all have a stake in it, and follows the new organisation grappling to appease a fractured community in order to put this year’s event on. Failure to do so “will spell the end of carnival forever.”

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