Our literary season continues with this ancient episode all the way from series one where Cally talks with writer, presenter, TV producer and podcaster Emily Dean about: childhood, grief, being single, famous friends and of course her superstar dog, Raymond. Oh, and the really important stuff – teeth.

Emily's book Everyone Died So I Got A Dog is

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⁠Walking the

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⁠Hoffman

Icelandic for ‘snow with flakes as big as

We think the quote we referred to might not be Anton Chekhov after all, but rather Leo Tolstoy: “All happy families are alike; each  unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”

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Produced by Mike Hanson for Pod People Productions

Music by Jake Yapp

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