George Fouracres

speaker

521 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 16 Jun

George Fouracres’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Walking The Dog with Emily Dean · George Fouracres (Part One) · 16 Jun 2026 podcast

Mitchell.

Because he was always in trouble.

So he'd be like, Mitchell.

And then the rest of the time it would shriek.

So just go like...

And she moved to Wolverhampton in the 80s because Margaret Thatcher ruined everyone's lives.

So she had to, like all of her family before her, she's from a family of economic migrants, just move to find work.

So she ended up in Wolverhampton and met my dad.

but yeah both sets very like absolutely like my granddad was a bricklayer is is well he's still alive he but he's retired now he's a bricklayer um and my other granddad worked at the rolls royce factory in derby proper jobs yeah proper jobs manual work and my uncle my dad's baby brother um oh look at this cappuccino thank you darling come on then um

Absolutely.

My uncle worked with my grandad.

He's a bricklayer too.

He took over my grandad's van and now his son works with him.

I suppose back then, we were the sort of the new 90s

lower middle class like you know working-class parents who then have because that's the thing we're like obviously this is a subject that becomes very pertinent throughout your life when you come from somewhere like the black country and you move away and you go to university and you're socially mobile etc

It was like a sort of brave new world.

My friend Liam Williams does an amazing bit of stand-up about his parents, about being middle class, low middle class, as an alternative lifestyle choice.

Because low middle class gets the worst press, doesn't it?

But yeah, I think it's quite realistic for a lot of people who grew up in... Because things like, obviously, there's the cultural factor, there's the economic factor, and there's the geographical factor.

And the black country at the time was like, especially in the 90s, was like, I suppose, that sort of new library era of just things just slightly improving across the board in places like that.

Showing 181–200 of 521 · page 10 of 27