Frank Skinner Returns!

Walking The Dog with Emily Dean

Goalhanger

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

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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He's back, and this time he has a dog - and an MBE! Today, Emily and Raymond head for a North London stroll with the legendary Frank Skinner and his dog Poppy. Frank chats about sharing his bedroom with an owl, what it means to be capable of kindness and how life with a dog has made his family feel more complete. 30 Years Of Dirt is playing at the Gielgud Theatre in London for 14 nights only from 5th to 17th February 2024, followed by a UK and Ireland tour throughout Spring 2024 - for more information and tickets visit frankskinnerlive.com Listen to Emily's first walk with Frank from June 2018 Follow Emily: Instagram - @emilyrebeccadean X - @divine_miss_em Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence Music: Rich Jarman Artwork: Alice Ludlam Photography: Karla Gowlett Walking The Dog is a Goalhanger Podcast brought to you by Petplan: visit petplan.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Walking the dog is sponsored by Pet Plan who pay 97% of all the claims they receive.
0:07.0	Pet insurance can be a confusing business, but I think ultimately it's all about the quality of the vet fee cover provided.
0:14.0	Pet plan cover things other insurers don't and can pay your vet directly so you get to spend your cash on other essentials.
0:21.0	No Raymond, that doesn't include dog biscuits.
0:24.7	Terms, conditions and excesses apply.
0:27.1	Pet Plan is a trading name of Allian's insurance PLC.
0:30.1	But he said to me, Frank, what would you rather be funny or happy? And I said,
0:37.0	well, funny obviously.
0:40.0	This week on Walking the Dog, Raymond and I took a North London stroll with someone
0:44.8	who's very close to my heart not just because I do a show on absolute radio with him
0:49.1	but because he's hands down one of the funniest most brilliant people I've ever known. It's the
0:54.4	legendary Frank Skinner. Frank hasn't had a dog since childhood but during lockdown
0:59.2	he and his partner Cath and son Buzz got an adorable cavapoo called Poppy and I think it's fair to say
1:06.0	Frank has officially entered his dog era he's poppy obsessed and I've actually
1:10.8	noticed a lot of dog-like qualities in Frank.
1:13.3	He's fiercely loyal, endlessly entertaining, and genuinely once danced with joy
1:19.0	watching sausages being cooked. I really hope you enjoy my chat with Frank and I also urge you to go and
1:24.6	see his show 30 Years of Dirt at London's Gilgood Theatre from February the 5th
1:28.7	to the 17th because it's honestly a thing of genius I I loved it. So go get tickets at
1:33.8	Frank's gonna live dot com. You can also hear Frank on his brilliant
1:37.4	Frank's gonna poetry podcast and on our Saturday morning radio show on
1:41.3	absolute. Okay enough of me.
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