Reverend Kate Bottley (Part One)
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean
Goalhanger
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We’ve taken Raymond on a trip to Nottinghamshire to the beautiful town of Retford to meet the fabulous Reverend Kate Bottley! Kate is a Church of England vicar - as well as being a journalist, broadcast and TV star.
The Bottleys are big dog lovers - they’ve had a succession of rescue greyhounds, but they’ve recently adopted a wonderful puppy called Tony (who has a very fitting namesake…) Kate tells us all about the unexpected joy of adopting a ‘dog dog’ and how he’s been settling into his new life.
Kate told us all about how she grew up in a non-religious family - and then how a teenage crush led to her discovering religion… She also tells us about being a show off, why she loves graveyards and why she’ll always pick up a ‘karma poo’.
Follow @revkatebottley on Instagram
You can buy your copy of Kate’s book Have A Little Faith: Life lessons on love, death and how lasagne always helps - here!
You can listen to Kate on Good Morning Sunday - on BBC Radio 2 every Sunday from 6am!
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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| 0:00.0 | The much-loved book, The Smeds and the Smooze by Julia Donaldson and Axel Sheffler, lands on stage in London's West End this summer. |
| 0:08.0 | On a far-off planet, Smeds and Smeds can't be friends, so when a young Smet and Smoo fall in love and zoom off into space together, how will their families get them back? |
| 0:17.0 | Soar into space with this exciting Olivier Award nominated show at the lyric theatre |
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| 0:39.0 | there are so many things to love about having a dog, but one thing I especially love is how it's |
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| 1:59.2 | One thing I'm always on the hunt for when I'm out |
| 2:01.9 | doing my walks with Raymond is a nice country pub, but most importantly, one that's genuinely dog |
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