Ania Magliano (Part One)
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week Emily and Ray take a stroll through Regent’s Park with the brilliant Ania Magliano, comedian, writer and the youngest ever contestant to appear on Taskmaster.
Ania admits she’s more of a cat person (her cats Chicken and Ricken sound wonderful), but given that Ray is essentially a cat disguised as a dog, Emily suspected they’d get on perfectly, and they absolutely did.
Emily chats to Ania about her childhood in Buckinghamshire, her university years at Cambridge where she became part of Footlights, and how she’s used social media to shape and grow her comedy career. They also talk about Ania’s much-loved appearances on Taskmaster and why she’s become one of the sharpest, funniest voices of her generation.
The great news is you can see Ania live on her nationwide tour Peach Fuzz, running from February next year. Tickets are available now at aniamagliano.com.
It’s a warm, funny and open conversation with someone Emily adored the moment they first met, even if Ray isn’t entirely ready to accept her pro-cat stance.
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Walking The Dog is produced by Will Nichols
Music: Rich Jarman
Artwork: Alice Ludlam
Photography: Karla Gowlett
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| 0:00.0 | I love that you just opened the show by talking about something so embarrassing. |
| 0:04.0 | And I didn't know that it was embarrassing. |
| 0:06.0 | I was like, okay, yeah, that's a choice. |
| 0:09.0 | This week on Walking the Dog, Ray and I went for a stroll in Regents Park |
| 0:13.0 | with brilliant comedian and youngest ever contestant to appear on Taskmaster, |
| 0:19.0 | Anya Magliano. Anya was very up front from the start about |
| 0:23.4 | being more of a cat person and she has two of them, chicken and rickin. But as Ray is basically a cat |
| 0:29.9 | in a dog's body, I knew the two of them were going to get along famously. And spoiler alert, |
| 0:35.0 | they did. I should say this wasn't my first meeting with Anya as she's |
| 0:39.1 | guested quite a few times on the podcast I do with Frank Skinner and Pierre Nivelli, Frank |
| 0:44.2 | off the radio, but I was really interested to find out a bit more about her origin story and how |
| 0:50.7 | she ended up having a career in comedy and we had the loveliest chat about pretty much everything, |
| 0:57.0 | from her childhood growing up in Buckinghamshire, |
| 1:00.1 | to her university days at Cambridge, |
| 1:02.4 | where she was a member of the Footlight, |
| 1:04.4 | and the way she's used social media to really help grow her comedy career. |
| 1:09.1 | If you're a taskmaster fan and frankly who isn't, |
| 1:12.5 | you'll have witnessed Anya's comic brilliance yourself and the good news is you've now got a |
| 1:17.3 | chance to see her live because she'll be touring nationwide next year from February in her show |
| 1:23.1 | Peach Fuzz, so do grab your tickets now at anna magliano.com. I adored Anya from the first time I met her, |
| 1:31.3 | so I had a feeling I was going to really enjoy my walk with her, and I wasn't wrong. She's obviously |
| 1:37.4 | enormously funny, but she's also just a really authentic, open person and an absolute joy to spend time with. |
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