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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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We rejoin Robert Peston and his dog Merlin on a sunny day in Regent’s Park for the second part of our walk.
Robert tells us about his experiences with grief, how he feels about self-improvement and having an attention seeking dog.
If you haven’t heard the first part of our chat, you can listen to it here!
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Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence
Music: Rich Jarman
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0:00.0 | Oh, in the dining room, I'm craving the thrill of mystery, the kind that lurks round every corner. |
0:06.0 | Something so charming, so seductive, as if Dracula himself invited you in. |
0:12.0 | A candlelight's flickering, hypnotic shadows dancing, tightly drawn curtains block out the sun. |
0:18.0 | Ah, that'll be Dulux's heritage is Florentine red then. |
0:22.0 | Let the feelings of your favorite books become the color of your favorite rooms. |
0:27.0 | Search Duleux Heritage for more. |
0:29.0 | It's a feeling. |
0:30.0 | Really hope you enjoy part two of Walking the Dog with Robert Peston. |
0:37.0 | Do remember to listen to part one if you haven't already and we'd love it if you |
0:40.6 | subscribe to Walking the Dog. Here's Robert and Berlin and Rayway. |
0:45.0 | I wanted also Robert to if you're comfortable just briefly talking about this. |
0:52.0 | I was so touched and sort of moved when I've heard |
0:55.1 | you speaking about when your wife Shan died because I think it's so important to talk about grief. |
1:04.0 | My experience of grief was that you expect to lose your parents, it's awful, but there's an inevitability, |
1:11.0 | but that grief that comes with a life interrupted is |
1:13.8 | different because you mourn the future don't you didn't have and I just think |
1:18.9 | that would have been really helpful for people and I'm really glad that you've been so open about it. |
1:24.0 | Yeah, it felt very much the natural thing to do |
1:30.0 | and I guess the reason in the end, well, I mean the times that I thought it probably was the right thing to have talked about how bad we are at |
1:48.4 | grieving in this country and about talking about our emotions was when I mean on a number of |
1:55.5 | occasions men who've been through you know the same kind of thing as I've been |
1:59.5 | through you know the death of a loved one would come up to me and just say, you know, you, you know, thanks for, you know, sort of not being embarrassed to talk about this stuff because I you know they would say |
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