This week on Walking The Dog, Raymond and Emily are taking a stroll in London’s Finsbury Park with the extraordinarily talented comedian Pierre Novellie. 

It was Pierre’s first time meeting Raymond, and although he doesn’t have a dog now - he fills us in about life growing up in Johannesburg with a guard dog who wasn’t very good at her job, and what it was like to have his parents replace him with two spaniels. 

Pierre has written a brilliant book called Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things: A Comedian’s Guide To Autism - and Pierre tells us all about navigating social cues, and how he released he was different as a child. 

Part Two of this conversation will be available on Thursday! 

Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? is out on 18th July. Preorder your copy here!

Pierre is performing his show Why Are You Laughing? at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on 22nd June 2024 and then touring the UK and Dublin in the autumn. Find tickets and dates here: https://www.pierrenovellie.com/ 

Pierre co-hosts BudPod with Phil Wang - which is available on all podcast platforms! 

You can listen to Emily and Raymond’s walk with Fern Brady from December 2022 here

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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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