The whole team is back in the studio together this week, and they have brought two very different kinds of story with them.

For Black History Month, the team sets two extraordinary lives side by side: Storme DeLarverie and Pauli Murray. Storme DeLarverie was a performer who spent decades walking the streets of Greenwich Village at night as a self-appointed guardian, working the doors of lesbian bars and physically stepping in when women were harassed, robbed or attacked. Locals knew her as the protector of the village's lesbians, and she kept up those patrols well into her eighties. Pauli Murray fought with words instead. Rejected by the University of North Carolina because of race, arrested in Virginia for refusing to move to the back of a bus years before Rosa Parks, they graduated top of their class at Howard Law School as the only woman in it, then were refused postgraduate study at Harvard because it did not admit women. Murray turned every closed door into an argument: they coined the term "Jane Crow" to describe how racism and sexism worked together against Black women, wrote the survey of US segregation law that Thurgood Marshall called the bible of civil rights lawyers, helped shape the legal thinking behind Brown v Board of Education, co-founded the National Organization for Women, and was named by Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a co-author on the brief for Reed v Reed. The feature ends in a Durham pulpit, in 1977, as the first African-American woman ordained in the Episcopal Church.

Later the team welcomes Dan Eltringham and Andrés Anwandter, co-owners of East Bristol Books, the small independent shop on Old Market that has quietly become one of the most distinctive in the city. Radical, community-minded and stuffed with small-press poetry, fiction in translation, politics, chapbooks and zines, it grew out of a series of post-lockdown poetry readings and a simple problem — where do you hold live culture that isn't on a screen? They talk about wanting a space where culture happens informally, taking work directly from the people who make it, and why at least half of what they stock simply cannot be bought online or in any digital form. They also chart Bristol's independent bookshop resurgence over the last fifteen years, and the shadow of Hydra, the anarchist bookshop and political discussion space that closed just before they opened and which plenty of locals now read as a continuation. There is plenty to look forward to as well — a pay-what-you-can poetry double-bill, and on 5 November the Argentine sociologist Florencia Montes Páez talking about *To Accompany Is Political: A Transfeminist Essay on Homelessness*.