Neil McRobert

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8,757 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 14 Aug

Neil McRobert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 17 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 7.

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Talking Scared · 290 – Liam Higginson & Awful Things in Lonely Farmhouses · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

Oh, it's great. voice-verified

But she makes this point that Jesus is basically just Dionysius, you know, updated for a different context and culture. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

So when you when when Carwin finds that head. voice-verified

Not only is that the irony that yes, it's Jesus and that's the the direct thing he doesn't want it to be, but also Jesus is just another version of, you know, Mithras or Daronys or the green man in the forest. voice-verified

And it's all just the same stuff recurring through time. voice-verified

Yeah, yeah.

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I mean the book is basically about the layers of history, isn't it? voice-verified

Of of soil and history. voice-verified

And um there's a section voice-verified

Towards the end, where Carwin is in f the full thralls of his voice-verified

psychosis or whether obsession, whatever. voice-verified

And he thinks and this this is a sort of paraphrase quote, but voice-verified

He thinks how things used to be better when there'd been local gods who occupied themselves with a single valley or mountain, because a god who ruled over the universe could hardly be expected to attend to so remote a place as this voice-verified

And when I read that, I underlined it and I just wrote globalism next to it. voice-verified

I guess so, yeah. voice-verified

And it 'cause that just feels like a perfect metaphor for where you know, we talk in the UK there's this overseas listeners won't know, but this great voice-verified

um phrase now is like leveling up all the communities left behind. voice-verified

And it's like the centralization of power in these economic hubs in this global network world means that you've got London, Tokyo, New York, but some backwater in Alabama or some tiny town in Wales, or indeed some tiny village in Lancashire where I live. voice-verified

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