Russell Kane (Part Two)
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean
Goalhanger
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the second part of our catch up with the brilliant comedian Russell Kane!
In this part of our chat, we talk about the moment that changed Russell's life, which spurred him on to pursue education and take back the life he felt was stolen from him.
Russell has written a brilliant book for kids called Pet Selector! He’s collated this uniquely accessible compendium of 40 typical and not so typical household pets, packed with facts, but prioritising the info that matters most to families like neediness, lovingness and outdoor skills! Hilarious to all animal-lovers, it doubles as an insightful yet fun-filled resource for families picking their perfect pet. You can get your copy here!
Russell is on tour across the UK and Europe until December 2025 with his show Hyperactive. You can find a date near you and get your tickets here!
Evil Genius with Russell Kane is available on BBC Sounds - or wherever you get your podcasts!
Get your copy of Son of a Silverback: Growing up in the shadow of an alpha male here!
You can find out more about JOLT - the award-winning supplement, combining 7 scientifically backed ingredients, designed to slow down the ageing process at joltmyworld.com
Follow @russell_kane on Instagram
This episode contains some very strong language
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Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence
Music: Rich Jarman
Artwork: Alice Ludlam
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Part 2 of Walking the Dog with the fabulous comedian Russell Kane. |
| 0:05.0 | Do go back and listen to Part 1 if you haven't already and do buy someone you love a copy of his brilliant kids book, Pet Selector, because it's a total joy of a book. |
| 0:14.3 | You can also go and see him on tour with his show hyperactive tickets available at Russell Kane.com. |
| 0:19.9 | I'd also love it if you gave us a like and a follow |
| 0:22.2 | so you can catch us every week. Here's Russell and Marty and Brian and Pappy and Rayway. |
| 0:28.5 | You were so driven, I think. And it's very, I think your story is it should be really held up |
| 0:34.9 | and told to people because it's very sort of inspirational that |
| 0:38.4 | that was totally dictated by you. You changed your life and you thought, I'm going to start |
| 0:44.1 | educating myself. You went back. You did an A level. You got a qualification to go to college. |
| 0:48.6 | And then, and this is the thing I never knew about Russell. And I was so impressed by this. |
| 0:54.0 | You approached reading in this |
| 0:55.9 | incredible way. You said, I'm going to read authors from A to Z, Austin to Zola, and if I don't |
| 1:03.1 | know a word, I'm going to index it, put it on a card, and pronounce it, and learn all these |
| 1:09.9 | words. |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah, correct. |
| 1:13.5 | But the part of the story you're missing, |
| 1:15.8 | which anyone who's struggling will like, |
| 1:17.1 | but how did he get to that? |
| 1:21.9 | Sorry, a minute ago, you were in a ravine with suicidal thinking, |
| 1:24.7 | and now you don't wake up one day and go, |
| 1:26.1 | I'm going to change my life. |
| 1:29.6 | Only I did. And this is how I did it. |
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