Who's a Good Dog

Kate’s joined by the wonderful Brooke Boney, entertainment reporter for the TODAY show in Australia. Brooke is a Gamilaroi woman, a proud auntie, and a devoted pug fan. She began her career as a political journalist and now she gets up so early in the morning to be on breakfast telly. She had two perfect pugs, called Reuben and Jimmy. May they both be eating as much cheese as they like, forevermor...

Kate is joined by hilarious American author, Florida resident and legendary lesbian Kristen Arnett. Kristen’s debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel, With Teeth, came out right about when we recorded this episode. She is an essayist, a lifelong patron of 7-Eleven, and a former librarian. She’s been published widely and celebrated for her wit, her basebal...

Kate talks to gorgeous writer, filmmaker and performer Amrou Al-Kadhi. Amrou is a drag sensation as Glamrou - urgently keep an eye out for tickets to their acclaimed show From Quran to Queen. And! Their first feature film, LAYLA, which is coming soon. When they’re not on stage or behind the camera, Amrou writes for television, including the show Little America and the adaptation of their memoir, L...

Kate talks to brilliant journalist Anna Codrea-Rado. Anna is a true legend of freelance journalism: she runs an essential newsletter called A-Mail on Substack, wrote a terrific book called You’re The Business, and hosts a podcast called Is This Working? with her best mate Tiffany Philipou. She writes with wisdom and authority on modern work, productivity, tech, and culture.  In this episode,...

Kate is delighted to talk to podcaster Stu Oakley. He is a film and entertainment publicist who worked on little known indie films Harry Potter, Star Wars and Jurassic World. He hosts the award winning podcast about LGBTQ+ families called Some Families with Lotte Jeffs. He says he thought he knew what it was like to work with divas until he started looking after toddlers. He has two gorgeous rescu...

Kate is extremely happy to talk to author/podcaster/soap opera sensation Juno Dawson. Juno has written many successful books, including non-fiction hits This Book is Gay , The Gender Games and What’s The T ? as well as bestselling novels Meat Market, Clean and Margo & Me. In July 2022, she’ll release the first book in a trilogy about a government agency for witches called HMRC (Her Majesty’s R...

When Kate asked author Marlee Silva to come on this episode, she said it was “the best idea for a podcast” she’d ever heard. Marlee is a Gamilaroi and Dunghutti woman who launched a social media initiative called Tiddas 4 Tiddas to celebrate Indigenous Australian women and girls. She hosts a podcast about First Nations role models called Always Our Stories and one about sport called Chicks and Bal...

Kate is joined by her favourite male author, Jon Ronson. Jon is a Welsh-born journalist living outside New York, and he’s written several highly acclaimed global bestsellers including The Psychopath Test, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed and The Men Who Stare at Goats. He hosted podcasts The Butterfly Effect and The Last Days of August. He also, importantly, presented a documentary about the time po...

Kate is genuinely honoured to speak to foster father Peter Mutabazi for this episode. Peter has an astonishing story: he ran away from his abusive father in Uganda when he was just 10 years old and decided to repay the kindness once shown to him by getting into the foster care system. He now lives in South Carolina, where he shares his experience being a single dad with more than 120,000 followers...

Kate is delighted to spend this episode with highly respected academic Pragya Agarwal. Pragya has written several terrific books, including ( M)otherhood: On The Choices of Being a Woman, Sway : Unravelling Unconscious Bias and Wish We Knew What To Say : Talking With Children About Race. She is a behavioural scientist and a professor of social inequities. She also! Has a magnificent elderly rescue...

Kate is the envy of kids everywhere for getting to speak to children’s entertainer Emma Watkins. Emma is the first female member of Australian kids band The Wiggles - who have had two billion views on YouTube, sold more than seven million CDs and 23 million DVDs, and perform live to an average of one million people a year. Emma is a trained dancer who’s famous for wearing a yellow skivvy, lea...

Kate is joined today by one of her favourite journalists: Zing Tsjeng. Zing is executive editor at Vice , presenter of documentaries including Empire of Dirt , and author of the brilliant book series Forgotten Women . She hosted a BBC podcast called United Zingdom , about whether she should give up her Singaporean passport to get a British one. She also… adopted a classically beautiful kokoni span...

Kate chats to national treasure Sir Tony Robinson, the only knighted guest (so far) on this podcast. Tony is best known as an actor for his role as Baldrick in the TV show Blackadder and as presenter of the show Time Team. He’s hosted many documentaries since, including Walking Through History, Around The World By Train and The Worst Jobs in History. His latest work is currently on telly, and you...

In the first ever episode of Who’s A Good Dog, Kate talks to gorgeous actor/model/filmmaker Phoebe Tonkin. Phoebe starred in The Vampire Diaries, The Originals and The Circle. She got her big break playing Cleo, a teenager who inconveniently turns into a mermaid when she touches water, in iconic Australian TV show H20: Just Add Water, which has been watched by 250 million people in 120 countries a...

Season 1 is coming soon! Join host Kate Leaver as she asks her guests endearingly specific questions about their dogs; with Bert the Shih tzu (a beautiful Battersea rescue) by her side at all times. Guests this season include Jon Ronson, Phoebe Tonkin, Tony Robinson, Juno Dawson, Emma Watkins, Peter Mutabazi and more. Subscribe now to get the first episode when it drops on October 4th. Hosted on A...