The Likes of Us Podcast

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley talks heart attacks, depression, industrial strife, light at the end of the tunnel, and the tragic death of a Podcast Superstar!

In this weeks (8-months-overdue) episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley takes us back to January 2017 and a chance to listen to the episode in which he first talks about his love of David Bowie - commemorating five years since he left us.

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 restricted Walk and a non-restricted Walk with Chili-Palmer, celebrates St. Georges Day (because the Labour Party forgot to), talks Lockdown, podcasting, old people and the usual old nonsense, and offers up his own tribute to all those that can still remembe...

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 series of 'restricted' Walks with Child-Palmer, braves a supermarket for his weekly shop, joins the technological/communication age twenty minutes late, wonders if you can catch coronavirus from punching someone in the face, and discovers the true iden...

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 to restricted Walks with Chili-Palmer, where he talks about not sleeping, Boris (pros and cons), the films of Wes Anderson, Al Pacino in 'Dog Day Afternoon,' Covid-19, and life under the lockdown!

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 host of restricted Walks with Chili-Palmer, embraces Week 2 of the Great British Lockdown, attends a funeral without ever stepping foot off the drive, and sees his dining room turned into the Death Star! Strange days indeed.

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley in week 1 of the Great British Lockdown takes a series of restrictive Walks with Child-Palmer, has a brilliant phone conversation with his dad, talks politics, social-distancing, and broadcasting directly into people's kitchens as part of an online teaching experime...

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 Covid-19 vaccine by way of a Walk with Chili-Palmer, a surreal Morrissey concert, the end of education as we know it, and a nice topical poem to see us all on our way!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley attends the first of two funerals in a week, takes a couple of melancholy Walks with Chili-Palmer, talks about the current university strikes and compares them to the infamous Grunwicks Dispute back in 1977.

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Clas Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley gets back in the 'old mobile recording studio,' taking a trip to deepest, darkest Bermondsey. He takes a nice Walk with Chili-Palmer, once again survives the horrors of Chatham, takes a bus journey down memory lane, talks the demolition of the Elephant and Castle Sho...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley goes all arty, does art, talks about art, becomes young at art, and has a fine old time sloshing paint on canvas and graphic pencil to cartridge paper. He also takes a couple of nice Walks with Chili-Palmer whilst braving a couple of storms, takes a couple of trips...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley, on the 4th year anniversary of the death of his hero, gets back in the old mobile recording studio, where he talks all things David Bowie, art, prison, alienation, more David Bowie, Chili-Palmer, and life in general!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley shares a drunken, pre-Christmas, night in the old micro pub with a podcast favourite, Margaret, who has come visiting South London from the 'Shires.' There's a couple of trips to deepest, darkest Bermondsey for a couple of Millwall matches, there's a nice Walk with...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley does his very best to ruin your Christmas with an 'Election Special,' when he talks voting anew, singing Christmas Carols, watching all night as the 'Red Wall' collapses, and sadly sitting there thinking "I told you so, but you wouldn't listen!" Wishing you all a Me...

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 bitter-sweet trip back in time - 40 years - to 1979, with a visit to the Museum of London and the opening of The Clash - London Calling exhibition. En route, he also takes a trip to Postman's Park to look at the plaques commemorating all of those acts of her...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley is all at sea after losing his Research Assistant to the Election Debate, between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. Drowns his sorrows at his local, where everyone mistakenly calls him, "Brad," reflecting on both his Research Assistant's absence from the house and th...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley attends his local Remembrance Day parade, attends a nice art class, takes a couple of Walks with Chili-Palmer, where he discusses strikes, students as customers, the bottom-feeders of this world, those who could care less about the 'fallen' and the sacrifices made o...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley, joins the graduation celebrations for a newly-qualified NHS nurse, goes to see a play, takes a nice 'Walk with Chili-Palmer,' where he talks the upcoming election, the NHS, Brexit (inevitably), offers up another segment of The Great San Francisco Adventure, and tak...

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 official book launch of Louise Stein's debut memoir: A Wardrobe on the Beach. There's a couple of readings from the author, a question and answer session, along with the hosts observations on the book, writing, his time working with the author, his own...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley attends two funerals, one in London, one in Whitstable, gets all melancholy and reflective, and is forced to walk off and seek sanctuary with a bowl of jellied eels! There's a couple of rain-drenched Walks with Chili-Palmer, and the third and final instalment of the...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, takes a nice Walk with Chili-Palmer, offers up another segment of the Great San Francisco Adventure, and Part 2 of the interview with his Dad, where he talks about his life in the 'ink' trade, the hazardous nature of work, trade unionism, the ink street, dirty jobs, redundancy, and the...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley celebrates the debut release of his student's memoir (A Wardrobe on the Beach), presenting her with the first bought copy hot off the presses, and offers Part 1 of an interview with his Dad, in which they talk about family and working life, and contemplates how the...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley makes a bitter-sweet visit to his Mother's graveside on, what would have been, her birthday - reflecting on that painful period of his life, including the loss of his Grandfather. He also takes a nice Walk with Chili-Palmer, takes a trip to B&Q, talks gardening, art, wr...

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley talks openly about his own current state of mental health, and how this most recent bout has left him feeling jaded and somewhat 'worn out.' To combat this he takes a nice Walk with Chili-Palmer, has a secret pint in his favourite watering hole where, for some bizar...

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 abundance of nice Walks with Chili-Palmer, during which he talks about a variety of subjects: the joys of 'working the land,' putting up the pension age, going 'beef free,' a demand that students and staff in universities be able to self-identify as bei...