Two of my cats clearly prefer more Wenner, who is my wife to me.

We've worked out that if she sings only you,

PIP in particular will just come immediately to her and start purring.

And I sometimes want pip to come

for me so I recorded it on voice memo and I occasionally use it to make a pip

coming when she's not there but then pip looks furious. This week on Walking the Dog

Ray and I took a stroll with comedian, author and much love Palavars David Bedeel.

David has always been firmly team cat but he does happen to have a neighbor who owns a dog and

that neighbor happens to be Frank Skinner so we began the podcast by popping in to see Frank so David could borrow Frank's beautiful

cabapoo, Poppy.

I'm not saying Frank was nervous about entrusting his dog to David, but he did say something

along the lines of goodbye Poppy. I do hope I see you again

As it turned out David and I had the loveliest walk ever because even though David often says he doesn't

really see the point of walking. He is an endlessly

fascinating, hilarious and entertaining person to go for a walk with and we had an

incredibly in-depth conversation about his pretty unconventional family on this

walk because he's just written an absolutely unput downable memoir called my

family inspired by his hugely successful West End show and it's a painfully honest but stomach-plutchingly funny

insight into the comically surreal goings-on in the Bedeal household. It's one of those books you just can't stop talking about, thinking about and laughing about after reading.

So I strongly urge you to order your copy now.

I really hope you enjoy my chat with David.

I'm going to stop talking now so you can hear from the fabulous man himself.

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