Working Hours

Anonymous female recorded 25/01/2020 I love this episode! Not that I don’t love the others but this to me feels like a sort of model episode. My guest is originally from Slovenia and she takes me on a break-neck tour through her work history. We discuss moving and working abroad and the importance of having support from your workplace. There’s also nearly an hour of additional material for this in...

Anonymous male recorded 08/01/2020 In this episode we talk precarity. My guest and I discuss working in bars, working abroad, working in bands and writing film reviews. My election bitterness is showing some (well a lot really). So you’ll have to excuse me for that. There’s some good stuff in here but I feel it could have been a lot better if I had shut my mouth more. Anyway, done now.

Anonymous female recorded 05/12/2019 In this episode I have a conversation on healthcare and IT. There’s a lot of coughing going on in this episode as pretty much everyone in Leeds seemed to have a terrible lingering cold with a very persistent cough at this time!!! This is another kitchen episode, as I had not learned that lesson yet. We do cover a fair bit of ground in this interview as my guest...

Anonymous male recorded 21/11/2019 In this second episode I talk to a poet and university lecturer about academia and creative working. We discuss how higher learning has changed in recent times and the shape of its ongoing uneasy fit with both art and commerce. We talk about the changing landscape of being creative, being educated and making money. We look at the experience of moving to London to...

Eleanor Snare recorded 04/12/2019 In this initial episode I show off my lack of professionalism by forgetting to turn my mic on and recording in a kitchen (a mistake I will repeat) and on squeaky chairs too (I’ll do that again as well). However, I think the conversation with Eleanor is great and comes through really well. Eleanor is an artist, writer and educator and we discuss everything from out...

Working Hours is a show about a place called Leeds, a time called now and an activity called work. I want to interview 1000 Loiners (people from Leeds) over the 2020s and ask them the second question we all ask everyone - what do you do? If you're a Loiner and would like to appear on the show then you can email workinghourspod@western-studios.com with your contact details and a short bio. Backgrou...