Barking up the right tree, with Catherine Dyson

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Catherine Dyson's latest play, The Last Picture, focuses on an emotional support dog, Sam, who is taking a group of school children on a trip around an exhibit focusing on Europe in 1939. She chats to Hannah about empathy, dogs, antisemitism, audiobooks and the National Theatre. You can see The Last Picture in Manchester, Bristol and Guildford. More details and tickets here: https://ett.org.uk/our-work/the-last-picture/ Become a Standard Issue supporter here: Standard Issue Podcast | creating a magazine for ears, by women for women | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.5	Hello, Hannah here and welcome to the last podcast of the week.
0:26.5	Lots of great stuff coming up next week, as ever,
0:29.2	including interviews from Jen and Mickey,
0:32.4	a rated or dated, a Bush Telegraph,
0:34.7	and an outside the box.
0:36.3	What a lot of podcasty goodness.
0:39.5	So, onto this podcast, I am chatting with playwright Catherine Dyson,
0:44.8	whose latest play, the last picture,
0:48.3	focuses on an emotional support dog, Sam,
0:52.1	who is taking a group of school children on a trip around an exhibit
0:56.2	focusing on Europe in 1939.
0:59.7	The last picture opened in York, and it's currently at home in Manchester.
1:04.5	If you're listening to this on Day of Relief, you've got until tomorrow to see it there.
1:08.9	It then moves to Bristol Old Vic from the 24th to the 28th of February and then on to the
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