Tony Walker
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15,273 appearances
26 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Tony Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 26 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 12.
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Ah God, I forgot all about it.
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I answered, dressing myself hurriedly.
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We'll go there at once.
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I have the permit lying there on the desk.
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I started to find it that
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But fancy my astonishment when I beheld, instead of the mummy's foot I'd purchased the evening before,
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The little green paste idol left in its place by the princess Hermontis.
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So that was The Mummy's Foot by Théophile Gauthier, who was born in 1811.
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So uh he was a French poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, and he was born in Tarbes in the Pyrenees and raised from early childhood in Paris.
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He began as a painter uh studying with Louis Edouard Riot, and that visual apprenticeship never left him a very visual writer.
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His prose and verse are
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Always acutely aware of colour, line, fabric, and surface.
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His father was a uh civil servant, I think, uh educated but poor, but made sure that uh young Tier Fool got educated, Tierfield got educated in Latin, etc.
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So at school he befriended Gerard de Narval, uh who introduced him to Victor Hugo and the young romantic circle, so he became part of this romanticism.
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Which was flourishing at that time in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, across the Western world, really.
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Um and he wore a red doublet that scandalized polite Paris and symbolised the new literary rebellion when he turned up at the 1830 premiere of uh Victor Hugo's Ernani.
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So his first volume of poetry in the 1830s was uh largely
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Unnoticed, uh, and then he became a writer and critic, so he he financial necessity pressed him into journalism.
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For decades he wrote art, theatre, and literary criticism for various French periodicals like Le Figaro, La Presse, you know, so well l'artiste, well-known ones, and he travelled widely: Spain, Italy, Greece, Russia, Egypt, and Algeria, and he uh created um travel books.
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Uh which were very popular, such as Voyage en Espagne and Constantinople.
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