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 (who's away on another Great American Adventure) offers up one of his favourite episodes from the past in San Francisco - enjoy!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley prepares for yet another Great American Adventure and offers up the second part of his tribute to the late Russell Dryden and the history of the Bermondsey Carnival!

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 tribute (by way of an earlier episode) to the late Russell Dryden, who was one half of Bermondsey Beat, the people behind the Bermondsey Carnival.  He also takes a visit to his mother's graveside, talks about Working Class Writing, and accidentally takes another walk with his little podcast superstar, Chili-Palmer!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley goes to a book-signing event, casts his angry vote at the polling station, doesn't get invited to the Labour victory party, talks politics and the struggle with clean living under difficult circumstances!

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 up West to visit the Church of Levi Strauss & Co., talks about the triumph of his choral concert, and laments another fallen, political hero!

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 deepest, darkest Bermondsey and encounters machete-wielding gangs, job cuts, and weather of biblical proportions, as well as talking about his new-found joy at being in a community choir!

In this weeks (long-awaited) episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley talks French peasantry, Remembrance Sunday, Art Exhibitions, takes a trips into deepest, darkest Bermondsey to witness four consecutive Millwall managers, and gets a cough that lasts for a hundred days!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley pays his yearly tribute to David Bowie on the 8th anniversary of his death.

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley takes more trips into deepest, darkest Bermondsey, not realising that his misery and despair would soon be relieved, attends a graduation ceremony across the road from one of his many previous Forest Gump moments, talks Rich Men North of Richmond, and gets some bad news on the personal front!

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 two episodes of a brand new podcast, DOING A TWENTY (by Em Aitchison), which are the prison diaries of someone that received a twenty-year sentence for armed robbery in the 1980s, and talks to its creator/narrator about the reason for publishing them now.

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 2 of 'The Great West Coast Adventure', leaving Los Angeles and travelling up the entire West side of the United States from Southern California, through Northern California, into Oregon and then on to Washington State via a 46-hour Amtrak train journey - seeing America in all of its beauty and ugliness in equal measure!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley sets out on the first part of his 'Great West Coast Adventure', where he encounters a new Hollywood bearing no resemblance to the romantic view he'd long-held of movie stars and starlets, of Golden Gods, of cowboys, of Manson Family members creepy-crawling, and of troubadours coming down from Laurel Canyon to lay a new song on him, man!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley commemorates 25 years since the death of his mother with a visit to her graveside, and offers up a chapter reading from his debut memoir Four Funerals and a Wedding - Journeys in Creative and Life Writing.  It's a sad old episode this week!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley indulges in a weekend of pure English eccentricity with the King's Coronation and Millwall's final match of the season - grim listening at its very worst!

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 quick dash from the London Marathon, sups numerous pints of strong ale, goes to a funeral, and has a right old miserable time of it - he even writes a song to prove it!

In this week episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley talks academia, Millwall, riots, and, once again, about his love of David Bowie with a visit to the basement of the Royal Festival Hall and an exhibition celebrating 50 years of Aladdin Sane!

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 Big Apple for the Great New York Adventure, with visits to all the places he wanted to visit on a previous trip to the city (some 30-odd years ago), but was far too scared to do so!  During his trip he visits the former home of David Bowie, takes a walk through 1960s Greenwich Village, takes in the 9/11 Memorial in Downtown and the John Lennon Imagine memorial in Central Park, takes in some crap art at the Guggenheim, and recreates various film scenes from Taxi Driver, Carlito's Way and Marathon Man - Is it Safe?

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley rants some more about the NHS, visits deepest, darkest Bermondsey for a Millwall match, and looks ahead to a trip to New York - the first time he's visited the city in three decades, long before anyone had ever heard the words 'Zero-Tolerance'!

In this weeks (long overdue) episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, what was intended as my annual tribute to the David Bowie turns into a one-man campaign to get the entire nation to come out of there houses, each Thursday at 8 o'clock, and BOO THE NHS!Warning:  Grim Listening!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley meets a drunken Santa who thinks he's a pirate, travels once more to deepest, darkest Bermondsey for a couple of Millwall matches, smashes eggs for the sake of art, poses the question 'What makes people Happy?'. and has a proper Merry Old Christmas!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley talks about taking a 'dip' following an online funeral service and how it affected his ability to deliver this particular episode!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley opens the episode with a drunken walk home from the station, talks Film-Making and elevator pitches, rages against middle-class television producers, takes Travis 'Up West' to buy a natty hat, visits the Remembrance event at his local cenotaph and wonders whether it was really all worth it!

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 to Fleet Street, attends a memorial service in Middle Temple, plays a grand piano, gets elbowed out of a Channel Four documentary, talks podcasting, funerals, 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 takes two trips to deepest, darkest Bermondsey, talks republicanism in the wake of the Queen's funeral, documentary filmmaking, writing for publication, podcasting, Tory chaos, and painting that red wall, well, red!

In this weeks episode of THE LIKES OF US podcast, dedicated to Working-Class Life, Art, Politics and Culture, your host, Neil Bradley talks about 'The Queue', the Royal Family, Republicanism, documentary film making, teaching, and all the usual old nonsense!

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 story that is the NHS!

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 cheery stuff, we know, but then you can't whack a bit of Bowie! 

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 the usual old nonsense in the name of 'culture'!

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 the usual nonsense in-between!

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 gives a scattered history of Millwall's rivalry with Portsmouth, celebrates 25 years in television for his Research Assistant, talks Marc Bolan, Labour, the stark differences in the way the police react to middle-class protest, as opposed to working-class hooliganism, industrial action, and social unrest, talks about depression, and offers up an idea for a new West End musical - The Dockers F*** the Sailors!

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 star) helped him both recover from the loss of Child and to re-discover his mojo.  There's also the usual stuff, talking about losing your childhood confidence once you become an adult, the perils of social realism in theatre, five-minute wonders, and the discovery of a new creative outlet, this time in the form of his Research Assistant's piano, which ends with you being treated to his best Les Dawson impression!

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 Station named after you, Catholic guilt, swotting at school, Holiday on Ice, and so much more!

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 anticipation of the Euro 2020 Final between England and Italy, settles down for a nice episode of Miss Marple!

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 Cooper, who finds nothing but despair and disillusionment in the gatefold sleeve of the greatest rock opera ever written! 

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 London jazz icons!

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, and nabs Germany in the sweepstake!

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 Millwall’ documentary by Quince Garcia), where he talks about class, race, work, football, tribalism, politics, the far right, and working class sheep!

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 are wondering where the cameras are), talks the NHS, Millwall and God's Country!

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 Wild, talks Steve Marriott, Oliver, H R Pufnstuf, and all things nostalgia. He also takes a trip to the cemetery to visit his mother's grave on the 23rd anniversary of her passing, talks about writing his book, and demands we all take time out to tell the people that we love just how much we love them!

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 Goldsmiths, goes on public transport for the first time since the start of the pandemic, and offers up another instalment of 'The Great San Francisco Adventure,' where he discusses tech companies, yuppies, and spends a magical day sitting on the dock of the bay!

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 evening at the baseball, encounters 300 Lindy-Hoppers, a far-out group of 1970s roller disco freaks, and 'Naked Sunday' on the Haight!

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, 'Covid-19', which is currently getting pretty close to home!

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!