Tony Walker
speaker
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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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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There's no horror in this.
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It's an entertainment for you.
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But he does deploy his language skills to really create a pleasing um set of descriptions.
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Particularly, I thought that the the the uh the initial opening in the brickabrac shop, but also but then the ideas of um the uh
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the perfume is uh beautifully described, I think.
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Um now
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So we talked about art for art's sake.
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I think at the heart of this story is a tension between two ways of valuing objects.
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Because at odds with each other
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are an object which if you w which has meaning, so it can be a desecration.
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Because if it didn't have meaning, you could do what you wanted with it, you could play football with it, couldn't you?
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Um and nobody would mind.
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So what we're saying is that this object um
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has meaning in itself.
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And then against that we have this art for art's sake where it doesn't need meaning.
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Do you see what I'm saying?
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So it's it's uh so
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Th there is there's two ways of valuing objects.
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As things with intrinsic ritual or personal meaning, the mummy in its original Egyptian context, or as things valued purely for their aesthetic or entertainment qualities.
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The mummy's foot as a paperweight, the brickabracker's deco.
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