Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, look folks, I'm not even going to try and come up with a hook and a date hook for this one.

Look, this day and some year, someone took a walk at night.

There is your hook, for those of you who desire our usual

hook. But look here's here's what we're up to on this episode. Today we're going to do

a brief social and political history of walking at night which is the act of you guessed it, going for a walk when the sun is not up. But this simple act has all sorts of ramifications

and tells us a lot about changing culture and politics and ourselves. And on that last note, it

actually serves as really great fodder for a podcast series. There is a new season

out now of what I think is one of the most creative podcasts in the World.

It's called Constellation Prize from The Believer magazine.

It is hosted by Bianca Gaver.

And the new season is all about walking at night.

Something that Bianca started doing as part of a correspondence with the poet, Terry Tempest Williams.

In the series, Bianca uses these night walks and these audio diaries that she exchanges with Williams

to explore things like faith and love and community and

nature and the kind of stuff that you can only think about when you're going for a

long walk at night. But there is a little bit of social history in the series and

I was talking to Bianca about how she'd done a bunch of historical research on night walking that didn't make it into Constellation Prize.

So this is our chance to talk a little bit about that and our excuse to have her on the show.

So Bianca gave her host of Constellation

Price. Thank you for coming on this day and congratulations on the new

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