In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics & Culture, your host, Neil Bradley talks about his favourite book: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.

Often referred to as the 'Socialist Bible,' Neil talks about how he came to be given the book, back in the days when he was still an 'Angry Young Man,' the changes he felt upon its discovery, and the healing powers of a political system that everyone long ago seems to have rejected!

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 the second part of his job at HMSO (which forms part of his Goldsmiths series: A WORKING CLASS LIFE IN 6 JOBS).

As per usual, Neil's job is at risk, as he talks about bizarre working practices, making hay while the sun shines, the Cool Hand Luke theory, and his eventual escape from the job by way of a hairdressing salon!

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 his series 'A Working-Class Life in 6 Jobs.' In the first part of a two-part episode, he talks about job number 5, when he ended up working at the HMSO (Her Majesty's Stationery Office).

Along with all the usual rage, misery and anger, you've come to expect from this podcast series, Neil talks about job interviews, unemployment, training, typing, family life, overtime, and Working-Class destiny!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley brings you the Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell.

Along with all the usual nonsense, he revisits the Daily Mirror Pension Fund Scandal, the collapse of the Maxwell Empire and his subsequent suicide, the resignation of Margaret Thatcher, British Pension Fund Holidays, and the homo-erotic undertones of Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley, commemorates the first year anniversary of the death of his hero, David Bowie.

Talking about the first moment, at the age of nine, he heard the opening bars to the David Bowie song 'Changes,' he takes a poignant walk down memory lane, visiting one or two London landmarks associated with his hero, and attends a sell-out performance of, David Bowie's musical, Lazarus.

In this weeks 'special edition' of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, attends the wedding of Joe Baden, Founder and Director of Goldsmiths Open Book Project.

Along with a commentary of the wedding, this episode is dedicated to an interview with Joe, a genuine hero of the working classes, about his upbringing, school and family life, his life at work, his battles with addiction, and his early experience of the criminal justice system. And along with all the usual stuff, we also get to make a very special announcement!

In this weeks 'Christmas Special' of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley gives you a Christmas Advent Calendar!

Along with all the usual nonsense, there's stuff about David Bowie, John Lennon, Joe Strummer, the Great Train Robbery, Ronald Biggs, the National Health Service, women in handcuffs, grandmother's giving birth, and a gunshot victim beating my dad to an x-ray!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley finally loses his job at the Daily Mirror, is locked out, spends 5 months on strike, and is blacklisted from Fleet Street.

As well as talking about the strike, the union, and about Robert Maxwell, Neil also offers up all the usual slices of tragedy, comedy and anger, and makes an impassioned plea for greater social justice on behalf of the working classes!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley continues his never-ending saga about his time at the Daily Mirror under the lunatic leadership of Robert Maxwell.

Along with all the usual bizarre tales about the strange world of Fleet Street in its Print Union heyday, Neil also talks about some significant moments in British political history and a chance encounter with Derek Hatton, the deputy leader of Liverpool City Council, prior to being sacked yet again by Maxwell!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working Class Life, Art, politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley brings you the third part of his look at life at the Daily Mirror, and the moment he first found himself in the presence of the lunatic that was Robert Maxwell.

Presented as part of his Goldsmiths series, A WORKING CLASS LIFE IN 6 JOBS, he talks about the mad tactics Maxwell deployed in his attempts at dividing and conquering the print unions, and explains how he came to be sacked 35 times by the gangster press baron!