Walking The Dog with Emily Dean

This week Emily goes for a walk with comedy actor and writer Jamie Demetriou. They chat about his childhood with his Greek Cypriot dad, wanting to perform from a young age and the award-winning Stath Lets Flats.

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This week Emily and Ray took Katy Wix for a walk in Peckham. They discuss Katy’s book, Delicacy, her childhood in Wales and the forthcoming series of Stath Lets Flats.

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This week Emily and Ray headed to Sheffield for a walk with Dan Walker and Winnie the Cockapoo. They chatted about Dan’s journey into broadcasting, his experience on Strictly and his new book, Standing on the Shoulders.

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It’s time for the second part of our walk with Maisie Adam!

Maisie tells us all about her first experience on a TV panel show, what it was like to be a news story as a child and she reminisces about her first date with her now husband - which took place right here on Brighton Beachfront!

Maisie will be heading round the UK this autumn with her brand new tour ‘Appraisal’. For tickets, more information and to keep up with all things Maisie head to https://www.maisieadam.com/

If you haven’t heard part one of our chat with Maisie - you can listen to it here!

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Instagram - @emilyrebeccadean

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Walking The Dog is produced by Faye Lawrence

Music: Rich Jarman

Artwork: Alice Ludlam

Photography: Karla Gowlett

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IN a special bonus podcast, Emily talks to Grief Encounters hosts Sasha and Venetia about “starting again” after a series of painful losses, all accounted beautifully in her new memoir Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog. The books jarring title is completely indicative to the tone of the conversation, as Emily refuses to speak gently about the painful realities of grief. Now, she is the only survivor of her immediate family and in her interview with Sasha and Venetia, she speaks in great detail of how this strange reality came to be.

The Deans are a genuinely extraordinary family. Her Dad was a famous TV personality and her mother an actress. Her relationship with both of them throughout the years was turbulent at times. “It was a peripatetic, slightly unstable childhood. Lot’s of bohemian artists, who were great fun to be around, but if you wan’t fish fingers on the table at 5pm, they’re not your people.” In contrast to this, Emily’s relationship with her sister Rachael meant more than anything in the world to her “I called my sister my lighthouse, she was home.”

Emily’s whole world turned completely on its head in December 2011. Rachael suddenly became very ill, and passed away less than a month later from an aggressive form of cancer. In 2014, her mother was diagnosed with MND, passing away a year later, shortly followed by the death of her father a few months after. Within three short years she was completely on her own.

“There’s something about the family you have grown up, in whatever form that takes, that defines you. It is who you are. “ I had moments where I would go to ring my sister, with something funny, or if I had passed somewhere. And then you’d get this sinking feeling of I’ve got no one to tell, no one understands this”

Emily is a fascinating character, and an incredibly smart and intelligent woman who’s absolute love for her sister is still incredibly evident eight years on from her loss. Her conversation sparked many tears, huge moments of laughter, and that was within the first 10 minutes alone.

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