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Walking The Dog with Emily Dean

Shaparak Khorsandi (Part Two)

Walking The Dog with Emily Dean

Goalhanger

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Pets & Animals, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In part two of Emily and Ray’s walk with the wonderful Shaparak Khorsandi, the conversation continues with more warmth, humour and reflections on life, comedy, hiring Alan Carr(!) and finding your people.


If you haven’t already, do go back and listen to part one. And make sure to catch Shaparak live on her current tour Scatterbrain, which has been extended due to popular demand. Tickets and information are available at https://shappi.co.uk/


It’s a warm, funny and deeply engaging walk with someone Emily and Ray absolutely adored, and a woman with truly excellent dogs.


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Walking The Dog is produced by Will Nichols

Music: Rich Jarman

Artwork: Alice Ludlam

Photography: Karla Gowlett


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Part 2 of Walking the Dog with the wonderful Sharperak Call Sandy.

0:05.0

Do go back and listen to Part 1 if you haven't already and do make sure to catch Sharperak live.

0:10.0

Her show's Scatterbrain is touring at the moat, so do make sure to book your tickets now at shappi called sandy.co.

0:16.0

Really hope you enjoy our walk and do give us a like and a follow so you can catch us every week.

0:21.6

Here's Sharperak and Taylor and Jamie and Ray Ray.

0:25.6

I want to go back to your childhood. Yeah, because you obviously, you know, I'm getting this idea of you at school where you're clearly an incredibly bright kid, but undiagnosed, as we now know, I'm getting this idea of you at school where you're clearly an incredibly bright kid,

0:39.3

but undiagnosed, as we now know, and you're also an interesting combination, aren't you?

0:47.3

Because I get the feeling that you like the attention, but there's this sort of nerdy, quite self-conscious side to you as well.

0:55.5

Yeah. I am a nerd. I was a nerd without portfolio for a long time. I wasn't, my nerdiness

1:03.9

wasn't picked up on at school. I loved learning. And I also get very, very shy. And I think the liking the attention comes from like,

1:14.4

oh, I'm being seen.

1:17.0

And so if you're used to feeling not seen,

1:21.1

then when you are, it really means something, right?

1:24.5

Yeah.

1:25.2

Do you know, the other week week I was walking across Ealing

1:28.1

Common and as you know I'm training in psychotherapy and someone from a different

1:34.7

class to me called out to me from across the green Shappie and they were the

1:39.3

bunch of mate and they ran over gave me a hug um because it was lunchtime, I was going to...

1:45.0

You should say Shaps means her class at school, not saying they were upper or working class.

1:50.0

And you said someone from a different class to me had the temerity to approach me, and I won't have that.

1:57.0

Know your place.

2:02.7

What do you believe in this?

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