Anthony Peake’s Talk “Colin Wilson and J B Priestley: Brothers In Time”

I am delighted to see that the recording of my totally unscripted talk I gave last July in London at the Fourth International Colin Wilson Conference is available for free viewing on YouTube.

My title was “Colin Wilson & J B Priestley: Brothers in Time?” I was keen to test whether I could do a totally unplanned and unscripted talk and if my “Daemon” would just supply the inspiration. You can be the judge as to whether I succeeded.

The conference took place at Wilson’s old London haunt, Soho, on July 7th, between 9:30am and 17:00pm. For the few remaining places. My fellow presenters were Gary Lachman on Colin Wilson’s ‘Double Brain’, Matthew Conlam on Wilson, his nemesis A. J. Ayer and “the Soul of British Philosophy”, David Moore on The Mind Parasites and other ‘mind viruses’, Lindsay Siviter on the notorious Dr. Crippen, David Power on how Existential Literary Criticism saved CW from Pierre Boulez (!),  Cathi Unsworth on Bella in the Wych Elm, and Darren Coffield on the legendary Soho drinking den The Colony Room. Finally Chris Nelson asks – as Wilson himself did – are we all multiple personalities?

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