Nina Conti (Part Two)
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean
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🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In part two of Emily and Ray’s walk with the brilliant Nina Conti, the comedian, actress and ventriloquist continues to share stories from her fascinating life and career, from growing up in Hampstead with actor Tom Conti and writer Kara Wilson, to creating her much-loved stage partner Monkey.
If you haven’t already, make sure to catch part one, and don’t miss Nina’s wonderful new film Sunlight, which is out in cinemas now and available to stream on Apple TV from November 28th. You can also find out more about her live shows at ninaontour.com.
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Walking The Dog is produced by Will Nichols
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Photography: Karla Gowlett
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Part 2 of Walking the Dog with the fabulous Nina Conti. Do go back and listen to Part 1 if you haven't already and do go and see Nina's brilliant new film Sunlight, which is out in cinemas now and available to stream on Apple TV from November 28th. |
| 0:16.0 | You can also find out more about her live shows at Nina on tour.com. Really hope you enjoy part two of my chat with nina and do give us a like and a follow |
| 0:24.4 | so you can catch us every week. Here's nina and re-way. |
| 0:29.3 | So you've talked a lot about this and i find it so interesting. |
| 0:34.3 | I want to talk to you a bit about your brilliant film sunlight which will which will be out in cinemas, and I'd be lucky enough to see it. |
| 0:40.3 | And it's so good, Nina. I mean, I'm saying this like I'm pronouncing on it, and I don't want to say it's so good. I really loved it. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm so glad. That's hooray. That's fantastic news. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm happy to hear that. |
| 0:58.3 | It takes, the reason that I bring it up now is because we were just talking about monkey. |
| 1:02.4 | And obviously, it wouldn't be a movie with that monkey as far as I'm concerned. |
| 1:06.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.7 | And I felt what this film really brings home is something which I would imagine you start to wrestle with yourself, which is where how much he becomes a sort of tool for you in terms of, and I'm not suggesting this is in any way autobiographical, which... |
| 1:26.1 | Well, no, it is. Emotionally. Yeah. Yeah. It's the furthest evolution of what that relationship with the monkey is, or this like little part of me that grew out of a character on my right side that was very small, that got stronger, |
| 1:45.3 | they got more outspoken, that got funny, that got more powerful than me to the point |
| 1:49.7 | where I was like, oh, I'll just be that then. |
| 1:54.2 | And so, which I want, because this version's still hets up about how she might come across. |
| 2:01.1 | That guy doesn't care. |
| 2:02.7 | He just says it. |
| 2:03.6 | So I want to be that guy. |
| 2:05.4 | So the premise of the film is a woman who is over it with herself |
| 2:09.4 | who hasn't made any good choices that she wants to stand by |
| 2:13.2 | who would like to start again, you know, in this suit, this monkey suit. |
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