Tony Walker

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15,273 appearances 26 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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Classic Ghost Stories · The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

And he's he's the dude, he says the impeccable poet and a magician. podcast-host

magician in French letters. podcast-host

Uh it's both a personal homage. podcast-host

So Gauthier was a mentor and ally. podcast-host

Now the other thing that jumped to me and this is that the other guy that Baudelaire really admired was Edgar Allan Poe, um who is definitely definitely gothic. podcast-host

When I talk about the decadent movement, I mean I've talked endlessly about the romantics before this decadent movement flourished roughly from the eighteen eighties to the early nineteen hundreds in France and then England, took late Romantic and Panassian aesthetics to an extreme, making artifice, sensual excess, ennui, and moral transgression its central themes. podcast-host

So writers such as Usman and in the Anglophone world, uh Oscar Wilde, Beardsley cultivated podcast-host

Highly stylised, often morbid prose. podcast-host

I find Swimburn a little bit like that. podcast-host

Ernest Dowson obsessed with rare sensations, cultivated perversity and the beauty of decline, treating life itself as a work of art to be exquisitely spoiled. podcast-host

I went to an exhibition in Vienna years ago on the decadent movement in Europe, a lot of this German and Austrian uh decadent stuff. podcast-host

It's closely related to symbolism. podcast-host

in there but anyway you can get lost in all this can't you? podcast-host

But um podcast-host

And then let's take that forward, the decadent, into I talked uh about transgress transgressive behavior. podcast-host

But it seems that the Gothic now is um both the literary gothic and uh the those who study the gothic are really interested in transgression. podcast-host

So society's norms, what your polite person wouldn't do, they do. podcast-host

Uh and it's again, I think it's another type of signalling. podcast-host

I've got no money, but podcast-host

Look at they make themselves into an object of art, in their own minds at least, and some of them, you know, in reality. podcast-host

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