Dave’s versatile skills have taken him to some unusual places - working as a furnaceman in a steelworks to finance his Master’s degree in fine arts, before joining the BBC as a make-up artist ...

Indeed, Upton Sinclair still believes that a befuddled Nobel Prize Committee had him in mind when it gave the 1930 literature award to onetime Furnaceman Sinclair Lewis. He has tried all the known ...

Thanks For Nothing (1985) depicts an unemployed man seated in front of a graveyard of crosses marked with occupations such as miner, labourer, cast furnaceman and builder. He stares glumly at us while ...