Archive - The Traveller in the Evening

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…

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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

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Whatever Happened to the Revolutionary Left #3: From Workerism to Broke, 1945-1985 (Part Three: Collapse of the SWP and Decline of the Far…

Listen now (81 mins) | The final episode in a series about the rise and fall of the revolutionary left, Andy and John detail the collapse of the far…

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March 2025

Whatever Happened to the Revolutionary Left #2: From Workerism to Broke, 1945-1985 (Part Two: Ouverism and the Rise of the New Left)

Listen now | Part Two of a three-part series. Andy Wilson and John Game discuss the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution, and the growth of the far left…

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Whatever Happened to the Revolutionary Left #1: From Workerism to Broke, 1945-1985 (Part One: General Introduction)

Andy Wilson talks to fellow former SWP activist John Game about the 60s & 70s, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the Miners Strike and the death of…

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Ithell Colquhoun: Mantic Stains, Sex & Surrealism

The otherwise splendid Ithell Colquhoun show at the Tate St Ives underplays the affinity between the occult and Surrealist sides to Colquhoun's…

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February 2025

On MAGA Indifference: A Reply to Daniel Pinchbeck

Daniel Pinchbeck asks his MAGA-supporting followers why they are indifferent to facts and arguments, and why they see everything in black and white. I…

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January 2025

Just Say 'Non': Nazism, Narcissism and Boyd Rice

Published 15 years ago, this review of Boyd Rice's peurile book is interesting despite the fact that the people who supported him have since gone…

Jan 19 •

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