Cathy Newman (Part One)

Walking The Dog with Emily Dean

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

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Take a stroll with Emily, Raymond and the fabulous Cathy Newman in South London’s Brockwell Park. Cathy is a journalist, writer and one of the presenters of Channel 4 News - and she is also an absolute delight!

Cathy tells about how she doesn’t look back fondly at her school years, how her life has been changed by the arrival of her new kitten Cher and what happened when she met the Dalai Lama. Cathy also chats all about her brilliant new book The Ladder - a book of life lessons from women who have scaled the heights of their respective fields, which features conversations with women such as Clare Balding, Joan Bakewell and Tanni Grey-Thompson.

The Ladder is available now! You can get your copy here.

Part Two of this chat will be available on Thursday

Listen to Emily and Raymond’s walk with Tom Holland from March 2024

Listen to Emily and Raymond’s walk with Clare Balding from December 2023

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Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence

Music: Rich Jarman

Artwork: Alice Ludlam

Photography: Karla Gowlett

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0:00.0	Look he's very slow.
0:02.0	Come on Raymond, come on we've got things to discuss and there he is loitering by a bin.
0:09.0	This week on Walking the Dog Ray and I went for a South London stroll with channel 4 news presenter,
0:14.0	Times radio presenter, author and journalist Kathy Newman.
0:18.0	Kathy is very much a cat person but she's also, it out very much a Raymond person and that makes
0:25.7	her fabulous in my book we had such a nice walk I'm not going to call it a
0:30.0	leisurely stroll because Kathy gets a bit of a pace on. I was hoping some of her
0:34.6	dynamism and zest might rub off on Ray but yeah I'm not gonna lie he
0:39.6	basically insisted on being carried instead. We chatted about so many interesting aspects of
0:45.4	Kathy's life, her childhood growing up in Surrey, her incredible work ethic that
0:50.0	seen her rise to the top of her profession in news and we even discussed a rather
0:54.6	hilarious encounter she had with the Dalai Lama. We also chatted about Kathy's book
0:59.4	The Ladder inspired by her Times radio show where she chats to high profile women about the life
1:04.5	lessons they've learned on their journey and it's a very inspiring fascinating
1:08.6	Reed so I really recommend you get stuck in. I'm gonna stop talking now and hand over to the woman herself. Here's Kathy and Ray Ray.
1:17.0	Come on Raymond. I'm not sure Raymond will like the pouring rain. It's not great for his hair. I can imagine. What about my
1:26.6	hair? Raymond and I are peas in a pod when it comes to hair although he hasn't got much of a
1:32.4	curl has he? I think he really likes you Kathy.
1:35.3	Oh Raymond can you not smell cat on me? Come on! Oh look Kathy, come on Raymond.
1:44.0	Right, so do I get to walk Raymond then?
1:47.0	Is Raymond, am I in charge of Raymond?
1:49.0	That's quite, could be dangerous.
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