Tony Walker

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13,674 appearances 24 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6d ago

Tony Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Classic Ghost Stories · Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse by Lousia May Alcot · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

And this is the the pious reading of it's all about colonial guilt. podcast-host

So this is about colonial guilt and it's about, you know, colonial guilt and colonizer is a big uh insult these days, isn't it? podcast-host

Well let me tell you I never colonized nobody. podcast-host

Uh neither did my ancestors either. podcast-host

They were too biggy busy digging coal or ploughing. podcast-host

fields um or been thrown off the farms. podcast-host

Um so anyway. podcast-host

So neither of them survives. podcast-host

Th this colonial girl thing does not survive close reading with the text. podcast-host

It's not in the text. podcast-host

So i the in the story, ancient Egypt striking back at the western looters of its tomb. podcast-host

So Egypt podcast-host

fantastically powerful civilization. podcast-host

It goes on. podcast-host

It becomes it's conquered by the Macedonians, and then we have 350 years of of uh of Cleopatra and and the the great library of Alexandria massively flourishing culture. podcast-host

Then the Romans come then in the 600s we have the Arab conquest then we have like Mamluks and then we have um Ottoman Turks and then we have eventually that's a bit later and then we podcast-host

Have eventually in the in the 19th century, we get the French and then the British coming in. podcast-host

So if you're an ancient Egyptian, you want to strike back at your colonial podcast-host

People who colonized you. podcast-host

It's not gonna be two American tourists. podcast-host

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