
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.
Jan 10, 2024
22 min

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!
Oct 20, 2023
33 min

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.
Oct 4, 2023
1 hr 16 min

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!
Sep 24, 2023
1 hr 4 min

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!
Jul 28, 2023
1 hr 13 min

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!
May 27, 2023
40 min

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!
May 16, 2023
23 min

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!
May 7, 2023
25 min

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!
Apr 23, 2023
45 min

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?
Apr 12, 2023
1 hr 14 min
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