Tom Read Wilson

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

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of influences which were very curious for a boy of my age.

Which were my dad, who, he couldn't, he just, it wasn't in him to talk down to children.

You had to sort of try and rise to his heady heights.

But what he did do, which I thought was lovely with us, was that

If he did stumble upon an etymological fascination, for example, then he would try very quickly to catch up with himself and make it into a story.

So, you know, if we were in the park and we saw a squirrel, he'd say, ah, squirrel, skia aura, the Greek of shadowy tail.

But then he would say, because that feather boa tail dances in the light and makes these nebulous shadows.

And so then there was a little...

story for us to cleave to.

And I loved it.

I absolutely loved it.

And it is the rabbit hole I've never climbed out of.

Oh, yes.

Oh, OK.

Absolutely.

And then

Coupled with that, he does to this day what I call a sort of dance of the synonyms.

So we recently had lunch and he said, oh, Sonny Jim, that was lovely, but all too brief, short-lived, ephemeral, fleeting.

And it's what I feel about words.

I'm just going to chew and chew and chew until I find the one that satisfies those sort of,

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