The Likes of Us Podcast

In this weeks (long-overdue) episode of THE LIKE OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley, offers up a collection of audio snippets from the previous few months of inactivity, along with a piece from his Las Vegas holiday (way back in February) where he experiences the madness of Sin City and manages to find his inner cowboy!

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 final trip to deepest, darkest Bermondsey for Millwall's final home match of the season, returns to work with a vengeance, does a nice Tony Hancock impression ahead of his debut art show, takes a nice walk with Travis Bickle, and offers up another horror sto...

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 reasons for his absence these past couple of months, talking family health scares, mental health, the state of the National Health Service, Room 101, and the most depressing sitcom he's ever seen!

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 belated tribute to his hero, David Bowie, taking us back to the first time he talked about Bowie, about how Bowie became his saviour during his confused adolescence, through the uncertainty of his young adulthood, and his depressive middle age.  Proper c...

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 an episode that you should've listened to last year, but you're listening to this year (hopefully), along with a short explanation as to why you 'didn't' but 'are' now!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley rages against middle-class revolutionaries on the picket line, fake folk singers, talks football riots, confronting the police over ID numbers, and generally making a proper nuisance of himself!

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 Heddon Street for 'Bowie 75', takes 3 trips to deepest, darkest Bermondsey, pays his respects at the local Remembrance Sunday parade, talks Robert Maxwell, goes back to work, and spends a jolly nice morning in the company of Noel Coward, dear boy!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley takes another trip to the House of Misery in deepest, darkest Bermondsey, talks mixing alcohol with the flu jab, the good old days, Covid-19, embracing your creative side, talking to your dad about poetry, and living life in quarantine!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley takes another walk with 'The Proper Blokes Club', revisits a notorious Millwall fixture from 1985, meets up with a fellow dinosaur in the Millwall car park, talks wishing ones working life away to retirement, talks Sunday lunchtime drinking sessions, and offers up t...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley watches the Sun Machine come down on Bowie's Beckenham Oddity, takes a nice walk from Southwark Park to Millwall with 'The Proper Blokes Club' and talks men's mental health, visits his mother's grave on her birthday, goes to Millwall, and talks about a whole load of...

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 long awaited return to the podcast airwaves, getting back into the 'Old Mobile Recording Studio,' for a trip to deepest, darkest Bermondsey for his first Millwall match since the start of the pandemic.  And whilst caught in the mother of all traffic jams giv...

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 one year anniversary of the death of his little podcast superstar, Chili-Palmer, talking about the weekend he died, and the aftermath of that loss.  He also talks about tentatively searching for another dog, and how Travis-Bickle (his new podcast s...

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 very welcome return to Margaret, our NHS nurse from previous podcasts, with whom he chats about the Nolan Sisters (oh, the horror), Wham, ABBA, watching the box, the grass always seeming greener on the other side, getting old, death, having a Space Stati...

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 West End, a week before the end of lockdown restrictions , and gets a glimpse of what the Zombie Apocalypse is going to look like come 'Freedom Day,'  takes a pre-match walk with Travis-Bickle, and, as the nation holds it's collective breath in a...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley talks youth culture (from Teddy Boys through to the Mod Revival), takes a stroll down memory lane with tales of Paul Weller and The Jam, Joe Strummer, a foul-mouthed Hugh Cornwall of The Stranglers (Twice!), and follows in the footsteps of the quadrophonic Jimmy Coo...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley visits the one true, original modernist shop in London, bumps into Mark Baxter with whom he talks gardening of all things, and offers up an interview with the aforementioned and Terry Rawlings, where they also talk writing, films, modernism, cockles, muscles and Lon...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley gets a surprise birthday message from Neil Diamond, offers up an archive recording of a book-launch, talks stereotypical literary agents, the cold nature of the publishing world, is recommended for the X-Factor, (a year after its end) continues his renaissance year,...

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 an interview he gave with the academic Dr Ole Jensen, from the Open University (who’s work formed a huge part of the ‘Millwall’s Changing Communities: Memories of football and neighbourhood in South London’, and which culminated in the ‘Black and White Mi...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, your host, Neil Bradley takes an Irish journey from Kilburn to Cricklewood, has a couple of nice walks with Travis Bickle, talks hippy kids, Charles Manson dads, and red boots with silver wings. There's also a trip to his local greengrocer for his second jab, which culminates in a blue rinse and worries about a coming full moon!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley catches up with an old podcast superstar, takes a trip to the end of the world, joins a drunken garden party, gets mistaken for a woman's 90 year old husband, gets mistaken for a swinger, gathers a drunken audience in the middle of a podcast interview (all of whom a...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley enjoys an unrestricted pint or three at the local micro pub (where everyone calls him Brad), demands to know why the International Olympic Committee refused to allow the 'Old Kent Road Pancake Race' into the Summer Games, meets a childhood hero in the shape of Jack...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, talks about the (inevitable) defeat of Labour in the Hartlepool By-Election, and bemoans the fact that the party he always (but no longer) voted for seem determined not to learn the lessons of its recent election past (failure), talks football with a couple of Design students at...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley takes another walk with his taxi-driving Jack Russell, talks local crime, the housing market, work, life and enforced retirement scenarios. There's also another instalment of The Great San Francisco Adventure, where he goes searching for his podcast host, spends an...

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 7 of 'The Great San Francisco Adventure,' talks about the disastrous European Super League (making comparisons to Murdoch's clandestine move away from Fleet Street in the 1980s), and introduces a new podcast superstar (hopefully) to the world!

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 some-newly discovered audio files from his 'Great San Francisco Adventure' of 2019 (it's like The Basement Tapes), when he goes off in search of The Maltese Falcon and the elusive Dashiell Hammett - in a world long before anyone had ever heard the words, '...