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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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We’ve taken a trip to West Yorkshire this week to meet broadcaster and former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls for a stroll around the beautiful Pontefract Racecourse.
Ed doesn't have a dog at the moment - but he's very much a dog person. He tells us how he was replaced by a dog when he went to university, and a dog has helped his family cope with his mother’s dementia.
We also find out about Ed’s experience at Harvard (once he had worked out where it was located on a map) and whether he cried when he lost his seat in the 2015 General Election.
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Thank you to Handpicked Hotels for hosting us at their dog friendly hotel Wood Hall during our trip to Yorkshire. Raymond was throughly spoiled and he loved his mini break!
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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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0:28.1 | Jeanette Manrara or Catcher Jones and not my dad so I would just pop my arms at and the fear in his face. This week on Walking the Dog Ray and I popped up to Yorkshire |
0:37.5 | to take a stroll around Wakefield's beautiful Pontifract Park with former Shadow |
0:42.1 | Chancellor of the Exchequer who's gone on to become |
0:44.5 | something of a national treasure Ed balls. Ed doesn't have a dog currently but he is |
0:49.6 | very much a dog fan and he seems to have just about forgiven his parents for |
0:54.4 | deciding to finally get a golden retriever just as he was leaving to go to |
0:58.2 | university. Ed is obviously a fascinating person to talk to because he's led such an interesting life both in politics |
1:05.7 | and subsequently as a broadcaster, presenter, and let's not forget most memorable strictly come dancing |
1:11.7 | contestant ever, but he's also just a really |
1:14.5 | entertaining and charming person to spend time with because he's got what I would |
1:18.5 | call charisma and what my Gen Z producer referred to as Riz. I had such a lovely stroll with Ed chatting |
1:25.5 | about his early life with the Bulls family and yes he did get teased a lot for |
1:29.6 | that surname, his political career and the reputation he got as a bruiser, and the first time he met |
1:35.4 | his wife, Yvette Cooper, or to give her her proper title, the current home secretary. |
1:41.1 | One of the things I really liked about Ed was how funny and lacking an arrogance he was and trust me if I'd have been to Harvard |
1:48.0 | you wouldn't catch me dismissing it as a college in America I studied at. |
1:52.0 | I'm also a huge fan of the podcast he now does |
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