Michael Collins – The Likes of Us

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Michael Collins is a television producer and journalist, and has written for various publications including the Observer, Guardian, Independent, Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times. His book The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class was published by Granta in July 2004 and won the George Orwell Book Prize. The paperback followed in June 2005.

A Channel Four documentary based on the book, and presented by the author, was transmitted on July 10th, 2005.