UA-171643620-1 Mickey P Kerr Working Hours Interview - Working Hours

Episode 14

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Published on:

7th Aug 2025

Work is a Laugh Sometimes

Recorded on 24/04/2025

Mickey P Kerr is a dedicated teacher and aspiring footballer who transitioned into a professional comedian and author.

Mickey discusses his early dreams of becoming a football player, the reality check during teenage years, a newfound passion for music, and the eventual turn towards teaching and comedy.

His journey continues through teaching experiences, comedy gigs, and the challenges faced along the way, including our usual suspects COVID-19 and Brexit, social media strategies, business risks, and the struggle between teaching and pursuing artistic passions.

As if he doesn't have enough to do he's also got a book to promote, it's called 'Football, the People's Shame.'

https://www.waterstones.com/book/football-the-peoples-shame/micky-kerr/9781915672551

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Football-the-Peoples-Shame-Audiobook/B0DR9DJ1JQ?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp

https://reallyfunnycomedy.co.uk/

https://mickypkerr.co.uk/bio

https://www.facebook.com/mickypkerr

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About the Podcast

Working Hours
The Story of Work in Leeds in the 2020s
What do you do?
Western Studios, Leeds presents Working Hours: a podcast series surveying the people of Leeds on their thoughts and feelings on the topic of work. I want to talk to my city about work. Why do we do it? Do we like it? What could we do differently? What will we? How does work change and how does it change us?
Leeds, the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland, is a former imperial textile centre and is now a major UK financial centre. This series will document the city’s experiences through Lockdown, Brexit, creeping technological unemployment, new and continuing resource wars, the ongoing dismantling of the welfare state and our accelerating ecological emergency.
If you are in Leeds or from Leeds then help me to reach my target of interviewing 1000 Loiners over the 2020s. Let me ask you, what do you do?
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