Ed Balls (Part Two)

Walking The Dog with Emily Dean

Goalhanger

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

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Yorkshire’s Pontefract Racecourse is the backdrop today for Emily and Ray’s walk with the brilliant Ed Balls.

Ed tells us about how his wife, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, encouraged him to go on Strictly Come Dancing - and the piece of advice that changed his atttiude towards the show.

We also find out how he came to host a podast with his former political opponent George Osborne - we discover if they are friends, and whether or not George would be invited over to the Balls-Cooper household for lasagne.

Political Currency is availble on all podcast platforms!

Follow Ed on instagram @edballs

You can buy your copy of Ed’s brilliant book Appetite: a memoir in recipes of family and food here!

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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Transcript

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0:00.0	There's diggin and then there's super digging.
0:05.0	There's food and then there's baker's super-foods.
0:08.0	There's food.
0:09.0	And then there's baker's super foods.
0:11.0	Made with selected natural ingredients and tasty chicken.
0:15.0	Good food.
0:17.0	And then there's Baker Superfoods.
0:20.0	Hope you enjoy part two of Walking the Dog with Ed Balls. Do go back and
0:27.4	give part one a listen if you haven't already because he's honestly a
0:30.4	brilliant guest and I think you'll love it. Do also check out the
0:33.8	podcast Ed does with George Osborne political currency and I'd love it if you
0:38.1	subscribe to us at Walking the Dog. Here's Ed and Ray Ray. It is a vet, which tells me a lot about a vet
0:45.0	is why I love the sound of her,
0:47.0	who was really keen for you to do it strictly when they caused.
0:50.0	Bunking, isn't it?
0:51.0	You originally were kind of, were you thinking I can't do that?
0:54.0	Well in the summer I lost my seat, I've got this new fellowship at Harvard,
0:59.0	so I go back to the place I'd been 30 years ago, it's basically like a massive
1:03.7	casual fellowship at heart. It was unpaid, but everything was the same, the
1:08.8	restaurants, the students, even the only thing was as different as I used to be I used to be 21 so that's a bit of a blow
1:15.2	And I'd like to ask you something about Harvard. You'd be really honest with me because if it weren't mine Were you quite quite a sort of ladies man when you younger?
1:22.8	Were you quite the sort of man about Tam dashing?
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