St Basil and the Hedgehog of Regret

Thoughts on regret, animals and forms of geriatric emotional compression.

Sep 17 • 

Andy Wilson

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Rum, Sodomy & the Lash: 50 Years Since Joining the Mob

I'm taking a temporary personal turn for this post. Bear with me! Back to Blake &c soon: 50 years ago this week, I set off from my home in Coventry…

Sep 9 • 

Andy Wilson

4

2

August 2025

Blake, Castoriadis and the Radical Imagination

Listen now | The Traveller in the Evening talks to Castoriadis scholar and activist, Stephen Hastings-King, about Blake and Castoriadis's radical…

Aug 23 • 

Andy Wilson

 and 

Stephen Hastings-King

5

1

1:08:31

Timothy Morton: Black Opals of Gurgling Negation

Listen now | After months of frantic Signalling, Timothy Morton and Andy get it together to spill the beans on Trump, the Great Chain of Being, Babylon…

Aug 15 • 

Andy Wilson

 and 

Timothy Morton

10

1:43:44

Captain, my Captain! Thoughts on Blake's Death Day

As we approach the 200ᵗʰ anniversay of Blake's death (12th Aug 1827), whar can we conclude about his legacy and impact today? A starter pack...

Aug 12 • 

Andy Wilson

6

Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground

Pat Thomas has produced a compilation of work from the glory days of the US literary and counterculture journal, Evergreen Review. How did they manage…

Aug 11 • 

Andy Wilson

4

July 2025

Awake! Mark Vernon's Imaginary in the Balance

Listen Now: A discussion with Mark Vernon about his book on William Blake and the imagination fuelled an agitated exchange about the relevance of…

Jul 28 • 

Andy Wilson

 and 

Mark Vernon

6

3

1:14:12

June 2025

The Light That Burns So Very Bright: A Playlist For MAGA Erasure

The victims of US racism had revealed to them the truth of their society. In refining that knowledge into music, they built some of the great human and…

Jun 17

8

2

William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: An Immersion

Philip Hoare's latest book sees Blake inspire an army of admirers from Wilde and Joyce through to David Bowie. Minor characters like W. G. Robertson and…

Jun 13 • 

Andy Wilson

13

3

May 2025

RBE 40 Years Later: Ruach Demos

After a pause from 1982 to 2025, recent technology has made me interested again in the kind of electronica inspired equally by Lee Perry and the…

May 5 • 

Andy Wilson

1

April 2025

A Short History of The Traveller in the Evening

Listen now | Conor grills The Traveller in the Evening (Andy Wilson). What leads a person to try to combine Surrealism, William Blake and Christian…

Apr 27 • 

Andy Wilson

 and 

Conor Kostick

5

2

49:42

Neither Muggletonian nor Moravian but Blakean: A Critique of Keri Davies

Keri Davies is a Blake scholar, determined to dismiss Blake's radical, dissenting posture, turning him instead into a small businessman of orthodox…

Apr 23 • 

Brian Collier

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