The Likes of Us Podcast

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley (who's away on another Great American Adventure) offers up one of his favourite episodes from the past in San Francisco - enjoy!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley prepares for yet another Great American Adventure and offers up the second part of his tribute to the late Russell Dryden and the history of the Bermondsey Carnival!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host Neil Bradley offers up a tribute (by way of an earlier episode) to the late Russell Dryden, who was one half of Bermondsey Beat, the people behind the Bermondsey Carnival.  He also takes a visit to his mother's graveside, talks about Working Class Writing, and accidentally takes another walk with his little podcast superstar, Chili-Palmer!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley goes to a book-signing event, casts his angry vote at the polling station, doesn't get invited to the Labour victory party, talks politics and the struggle with clean living under difficult circumstances!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley takes a trip up West to visit the Church of Levi Strauss & Co., talks about the triumph of his choral concert, and laments another fallen, political hero!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley returns to deepest, darkest Bermondsey and encounters machete-wielding gangs, job cuts, and weather of biblical proportions, as well as talking about his new-found joy at being in a community choir!

In this weeks (long-awaited) episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley talks French peasantry, Remembrance Sunday, Art Exhibitions, takes a trips into deepest, darkest Bermondsey to witness four consecutive Millwall managers, and gets a cough that lasts for a hundred days!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley pays his yearly tribute to David Bowie on the 8th anniversary of his death.

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley takes more trips into deepest, darkest Bermondsey, not realising that his misery and despair would soon be relieved, attends a graduation ceremony across the road from one of his many previous Forest Gump moments, talks Rich Men North of Richmond, and gets some bad news on the personal front!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley offers up two episodes of a brand new podcast, DOING A TWENTY (by Em Aitchison), which are the prison diaries of someone that received a twenty-year sentence for armed robbery in the 1980s, and talks to its creator/narrator about the reason for publishing them now.

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley offers up Part 2 of 'The Great West Coast Adventure', leaving Los Angeles and travelling up the entire West side of the United States from Southern California, through Northern California, into Oregon and then on to Washington State via a 46-hour Amtrak train journey - seeing America in all of its beauty and ugliness in equal measure!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley sets out on the first part of his 'Great West Coast Adventure', where he encounters a new Hollywood bearing no resemblance to the romantic view he'd long-held of movie stars and starlets, of Golden Gods, of cowboys, of Manson Family members creepy-crawling, and of troubadours coming down from Laurel Canyon to lay a new song on him, man!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley commemorates 25 years since the death of his mother with a visit to her graveside, and offers up a chapter reading from his debut memoir Four Funerals and a Wedding - Journeys in Creative and Life Writing.  It's a sad old episode this week!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley indulges in a weekend of pure English eccentricity with the King's Coronation and Millwall's final match of the season - grim listening at its very worst!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley makes a quick dash from the London Marathon, sups numerous pints of strong ale, goes to a funeral, and has a right old miserable time of it - he even writes a song to prove it!

In this week episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley talks academia, Millwall, riots, and, once again, about his love of David Bowie with a visit to the basement of the Royal Festival Hall and an exhibition celebrating 50 years of Aladdin Sane!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley takes a trip to the Big Apple for the Great New York Adventure, with visits to all the places he wanted to visit on a previous trip to the city (some 30-odd years ago), but was far too scared to do so!  During his trip he visits the former home of David Bowie, takes a walk through 1960s Greenwich Village, takes in the 9/11 Memorial in Downtown and the John Lennon Imagine memorial in Central Park, takes in some crap art at the Guggenheim, and recreates various film scenes from Taxi Driver, Carlito's Way and Marathon Man - Is it Safe?

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley rants some more about the NHS, visits deepest, darkest Bermondsey for a Millwall match, and looks ahead to a trip to New York - the first time he's visited the city in three decades, long before anyone had ever heard the words 'Zero-Tolerance'!

In this weeks (long overdue) episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, what was intended as my annual tribute to the David Bowie turns into a one-man campaign to get the entire nation to come out of there houses, each Thursday at 8 o'clock, and BOO THE NHS! Warning:  Grim Listening!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley meets a drunken Santa who thinks he's a pirate, travels once more to deepest, darkest Bermondsey for a couple of Millwall matches, smashes eggs for the sake of art, poses the question 'What makes people Happy?'. and has a proper Merry Old Christmas!