Tom Read Wilson

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926 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2 Jun

Tom Read Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson · Tom Read Wilson Finally Tells His Story: “It Was A Constant Barrage Of Verbal Abuse” · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

Yes, and the other person I Have to mention is Martin because oh my god Martin is Fascinating he he can speak Polari and Polari is

was a secret gay language, pre-decriminalization of homosexuality.

And people could speak it so that they could, mainly if Hilda handcuffs, which was what they'd call the law, were around, to go under the radar and still say what they'd like to say.

And he said to me one day, oh, boner lallys, Tom, which means boner.

great legs in Polari I said you don't speak Polari and he said yes yes I in fact I wrote a thriller and one of my characters only spoke Polari and he said um I grew up listening to Round the Horn and Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddock used to speak Polari on that okay and he said we'd listen every Sunday and uh

He said, then, he said, I believe that political acts are often felt about 10 years after the fact.

And he said, if you think about it, decriminalization happened in 67.

And he said, the new romantics as a musical movement happened in 77.

And he said, we were all congregating at a club called Blitz where

There was no gender.

There was no orientation.

And we called ourselves the New Romantics because we loved Byron and we loved Wilde.

And we loved those androgynous poets who occupied myriad spaces and identities.

Yes.

And...

What a special man.

And we had so many, so many conversations about his life and those revelations in his life as they happened and how they always happened.

happening at the same time as the arts and there was therefore a movement oh I loved him I loved him I can see that this I'm a Celebrity was truly it was about community

It was about community.

Yes, one got very friendly with my own snake.

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