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🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Join us in Finsbury Park with the comedian Pierre Novellie for the second part of this week’s Walking The Dog!
Pierre and Emily discuss how they feel about no longer doing their radio show with Frank Skinner, Pierre tells the story of how he got his autism diagnosis after being heckled at a gig, and we discuss the power of an neurodivergent friendship duo.
If you haven’t heard Part One of this chat yet, you can go back and listen to that now!
Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? is out on 18th July. Preorder your copy here!
Pierre is performing his show Why Are You Laughing? at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on 22nd June 2024 and then touring the UK and Dublin in the autumn. Find tickets and dates here: https://www.pierrenovellie.com/
Pierre co-hosts BudPod with Phil Wang - which is available on all podcast platforms!
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
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1:31.4 | decided to give stand-up comedy a go. |
1:33.5 | I'll shut up now so you can listen to the brilliant man himself. |
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