Tony Walker

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14,389 appearances 25 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

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

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 25 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 12.

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Classic Ghost Stories · The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

But the risk is everything, including one's sacred things, is flattened into entertainment. podcast-host

I think he's very aware of that. podcast-host

I think he's definitely podcast-host

Uh chosen his camp as it looks nice, dun it? podcast-host

You know. podcast-host

But he is aware that actually maybe has another thing as that. podcast-host

So we have the opening interior. podcast-host

All times and cultures are saleable fragments. podcast-host

Etruscan lamps, palisy wear, Japanese, this is Chinese silks, Renaissance furniture and a mummy's foot. podcast-host

And then we have the patter of the salesman, and we know how they were sold. podcast-host

Now podcast-host

Very I'm feeling very French today. podcast-host

So um let's talk about French semiotics. podcast-host

What? podcast-host

So in French semiotics, we live in a web of signs, not but this is a 20th century thing, not bare things. podcast-host

So this isn't Gautier, this is after Gautier. podcast-host

I'm only using it to illustrate some of the some of the things we've been talking about. podcast-host

So uh an object and culture is a sign, according to semiotics, it's made podcast-host

Meaning comes from its position in the network, not from its thinness in isolation. podcast-host

So you know, whatever we think about an object, it only has any meaning as I'm looking at the cup here, it's got um Sheila Boughtham and it's got a Van Gogh Starry Night Dude thingy on it. podcast-host

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