Best of 2025 (Part One)
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week Emily and Ray share a special treat as they look back at some of their favourite walks from the past year.
It’s a joyful highlights episode featuring brilliant moments from conversations with Ferne McCann, Shona McGarty, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Katherine Ryan and her husband Bobby Kootstra, and the wonderful Nick Mohammed.
Emily reflects on an incredible year of walks, laughter, dogs and unexpected stories, and takes a moment to thank the listeners who join them every week and make the podcast such a joy to create. There will be more highlights later this week, and plenty of exciting new guests coming in 2026.
Settle in and enjoy some of the very best bits from the year, starting with the amazing Nick Mohammed.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Walking the Dog, we've got a bit of a treat for you. No, not a treat for you, Ray, |
| 0:05.5 | a treat for our lovely listeners. We're going to be looking back at some of our favourite guests |
| 0:10.7 | from the year. In this episode, you'll hear from Fern McCam, Shona McGarty, Krishna and Guru Murphy, |
| 0:17.7 | Catherine Ryan and her husband, Bobby Kutstra, and the wonderful Nick |
| 0:21.9 | Mohamed. Ray and I have honestly loved our walks this year. In fact, we just love doing this |
| 0:27.3 | podcast and we obviously couldn't do it without you, our brilliant listeners. So thank |
| 0:32.3 | you so much for joining us on our walks. It genuinely means the world. We'll be back with more highlights |
| 0:38.4 | later this week and more incredible guests in 2026. But for now, let's kick off with the |
| 0:44.8 | amazing Nick Mohamed. I love that you used to live in Richmond, Nick. Yeah, we, when Becca and I |
| 0:52.5 | got married, we moved there in 2014. We'll just probably got married. Yeah, we, when Becker and I got married, we moved there in 2014. |
| 0:56.3 | We moved there, yeah, September 2014. |
| 1:00.0 | And like, it's like, and we were renting there, a number of years later, like five years later. |
| 1:05.0 | But before Ted Lassau had become big, we bought a little flat there. |
| 1:10.9 | And then obviously Ted Lesso went massive. |
| 1:13.1 | And we were like, oh, it just looks weird that I'm here all the time. |
| 1:15.9 | It looks like I'm trying to get spotted and sort of hanging out. |
| 1:19.5 | It's a bit weird. |
| 1:20.3 | Do you know what I mean? |
| 1:21.0 | And I'd be like, well, this is where I walk. |
| 1:23.4 | This is like where I jog. |
| 1:24.7 | This is where the kids get a nurse. |
| 1:25.9 | I mean, it's like... He's very tall, isn't he? |
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