In this special edition of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley takes a look at 'A Week in the Life of the Goldsmiths Open Book Project.'

Taking us from their stand at the Goldsmiths Undergraduate Open Day, through the 'Being Human Festival' at London's Senate House, to their gala dinner at the TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION AWARDS in Mayfair, where they were shortlisted in the category of Widening Participation and Outreach, Neil makes his usual caustic observations, and angrily claims that the working classes are still criminally under-represented in the strange old world of academia!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, your host, Neil Bradley gives you the second instalment of his time at the Daily Mirror, as part of his Goldsmiths series: A Working Class Life in 6 Jobs.

This week Neil talks about, what he describes as, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - looking at some of the stuff that is often not spoken about, in terms of Fleet Street life, such as fiddles, Spanish Customs, debt and addiction.

As always, there'll be the usual weird stories and anecdotes from Neil's surreal working life!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, podcast host, Neil Bradley, returns to his series: A Working-Class Life in 6 Jobs.

Having been sacked for being colour blind (from a colour photographic lab!) Neil secures a six-month casual position at the Daily Mirror newspaper, and from the moment he arrives quickly begins to make sense of the strange world that is Fleet Street.

In this (special edition) episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, your host, Neil Bradley, visits the local war memorial to take part in the service to commemorate Remembrance Sunday, as well as talking about his Great Grandfather, Joseph James Newman, who was killed during the Battle of Cambrai, in Louverval, France.

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, podcast host, Neil Bradley talks about the third job in his Goldsmiths series: A Working Class Life in 6 Jobs.

Sent to work by his union in a colour photographic lab, Neil talks about becoming a union official at the age of 18, demanding a 35% pay rise, and attempting to become the first colour photographic technician in the history of the industry who suffers from colour blindness!

You really couldn't make this stuff up . . .

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics & Culture, podcast host, Neil Bradley talks about the second of his jobs in the Goldsmiths series 'A Working-Class Life in 6 Jobs,' and his first job in 'The Print.'

Along with all the usual trivia, including being mistaken for the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Budget Day, Neil tells the story of how, within the first 40 minutes, working as a messenger at the London Evening Standard he was accused of attempting to bring to an end 150 years of Fleet Street tradition!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics & Culture, podcast host, Neil Bradley, talks about the first job he had upon leaving school.

Presented as part of a forthcoming lecture series at Goldsmiths, University of London, A WORKING CLASS LIFE IN 6 JOBS, Neil talks about clocking in, the thought of doing the same job for fifty years, women putting their teeth in their handbags before starting work, and how he came to be known as 'Elvis!'

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics & Culture, your host, Neil Bradley, takes an impassioned look at the National Health Service.

With the usual scattered history of how the NHS came about, and offering up some personal experiences, along with those of his family, Neil makes the argument that we should all be concerned as to the decline of this once great institution.