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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So you think about that, uh, brickabrac.
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You go into that shop, and that is containing a lot of things from different cultures, different these are people's lives.
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These are things that were uh invested with meaning, with value.
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value they they tell a story about somebody uh s but in the shop that's all gone they're me it's like um if you you if you go into a uh sometimes it is with pubs and they would just they would get books and put books on the and they would go to and they would bind about the cartload and they'll put them on the wall and their their function was not to be a book it was to be a decoration and um it it even
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the extent, you know, of course famously, they're not really books at all.
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It's either b wallpaper or it's um a fabrication that's meant to look like a book.
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So the value of the book as a book is gone and it is merely
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decor.
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Yeah.
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So Egyptian mummification originally has a very thick meaning.
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The body is a ritual instrument designed to guarantee continued existence in the afterlife.
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The mummy is not a horror figure, but a sacred locust, the preserved form through which the person may be reanimated in the next world.
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So um
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That's that's the tension in this story.
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Um for the for the young lady princess and her pharaoh daddy, it's a real deal.
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It you know, that's real, that's very important to them.
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It's sacred, it's they're invested in it in a big way.
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And our man is just like and the funny thing is, when he takes the foot, and the the brickabrac man's quite happy to sell him it, but he takes the foot and
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And the fact that this the foot of this once massively important figure for which a massive pyramid was created from the day of her birth um becomes a mere paperway to weigh down a load of crap.
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Letters he hasn't finished.
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