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Oh, I like that one.

That's a...

What's that literally, do you think?

Is that a Irish wolfhound?

A golden doodle?

That is so not an Irish wolf.

This week on Walking the Dog, I took Ray out for a stroll on Hampstead Heath

with a man you'll be very familiar with. I'm going to go TV legend.

Richard Madele. Richard doesn't really need an introduction but here you go. He's a

TV presenter, journalist, author, he runs Britain's most successful book club and he's a newspaper

agony on.

But you'll know him best from his incredibly long running and successful TV partnership

with his wife, Judy Finnegan. Richard is incredibly good

company and he's refreshingly candid. He said at the beginning you can ask me

anything you want and he was right. He opened up about his childhood, his first marriage, his dad's sudden untimely death,

and he told me all about his relationship with Judy and how they fell in love.

Richard doesn't have a dog himself.

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