Al Murray (Part One)

Walking The Dog with Emily Dean

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Comedy, Unknown, Kids & Family, Pets & Animals, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week on Walking The Dog - it's comedian, actor, musician, writer and podcaster Al Murray! Al doesn't have a dog (although he does have a fox living in his garden...) so Emily took Ray along for a stroll with him in West London's Ravenscourt Park. Al is currently on tour with his legendary character The Pub Landlord as well as writing a new history book - is there anything this man can't do? Al shared his what it was like to attend boarding school, his thoughts on having therapy and the assumptions people make of him based on his famous ancestor. Part Two of our walk with Al will be available on Thursday! --- Listen to Emily's first walk with Al which from March 2019 here Al is on tour with The Pub Landlord throughout 2024. Visit https://thepublandlord.com/ for dates and tickets! You can but Al's latest book 'Command: How The Allies Learned To Win The Second World War' here And listen to We Have Ways Of Making You Talk wherever you get your podcasts! --- Follow Emily: Instagram - @emilyrebeccadean X - @divine_miss_em Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence Music: Rich Jarman Artwork: Alice Ludlam Photography: Karla Gowlett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Still I note no dog no dog no no we have a fox though in my garden right is that
0:06.8	Al that doesn't count as a pet. This week on walking the dog Ray and I went out
0:11.6	for a West London stroll with legendary comedian
0:14.3	Al Murray. Al is obviously best known for his hugely popular character, the pub landlord,
0:19.7	but he's also a very respected historian with a fascinating backstory of his own.
0:25.0	As the great-great-great-grandson, a vanity fair author William Make Peace Thackeray.
0:30.0	So I could frankly listen to this man talk about his life all day.
0:33.2	We had the loveliest chat about everything from the family passion for Labrador's
0:38.2	to his slightly challenging days of boarding school and the birth of his incredibly successful comedy career.
0:44.0	Now, as you may know, also has his own podcast centered around the Second World War with
0:49.3	historian James Holland, which I thoroughly recommend you listen to, and he's also written a brilliant
0:55.0	book, Command, How the Allies Learn to win the Second World War, which I really loved.
1:00.4	And by the way, you can go and see Al Tour touring this year as the pub landlord in Gov Island
1:05.1	to book tickets go to the pub landlord.com. I'm going to stop talking now and hand
1:10.0	over to the man himself. Here's Al and Ray Ray. So the parks through that way isn't it?
1:15.3	Should we go this way? Yeah. How do you want to get a coffee for our war?
1:18.6	No I'm right I've just drunk a big pot of coffee. Do you mind if I get one? You get a coffee?
1:23.2	Well that be annoying. No no be totally cool.
1:25.6	How can I get you a coffee?
1:27.6	Yeah all right yeah can I have a decaf flat white please?
1:30.0	Yeah.
1:31.4	Yeah. I'm going to have a calf flat white. I live on the edge on like my end. I've just like I said I've just
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