Greyfriars Bobby
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Sep 14, 2026
Antoine MelonHOST
why it's called Bobby?
Max HarrisonGUEST
There's a little Greyfriars Bobby.
Max HarrisonGUEST
Correct.
Max HarrisonGUEST
That was the little dog.
Max HarrisonGUEST
The dog of his father.
Max HarrisonGUEST
Yeah, and it's a Scottish terrier, which there's a famous Scottish terrier called Greyfriars Bobby.
Max HarrisonGUEST
Do you know the story of Greyfriars Bobby? No, tell us.
Max HarrisonGUEST
Do we have...
Johnny PomatoHOST
I actually, yeah, I didn't even think to look up.
Johnny PomatoHOST
I saw he didn't have a lot of other acting credits, although he is in a childhood favorite of mine, Greyfriars Bobby, the Disney film about the sort of Hachiko-like dog who waits forever for his dead master.
Johnny PomatoHOST
But yeah, kid's okay.
Andrew OverbyHOST
In the lead up to this breakout of Gorgo, this attempted breakout, we do get the romance between Sam and Moira.
James SearbyHOST
And the...
James SearbyHOST
But if you go to the Greyfriars Kirkyard, there's a famous statue there of the Greyfriars Bobby.
James SearbyHOST
It's a dog.
James SearbyHOST
That sounded very New York, didn't it? It was a dog.
James SearbyHOST
The dog would not leave his grave.
James SearbyHOST
He doggedly, stubbornly waited for his master.
James SearbyHOST
And so there's a statue of him in front of the Greyfriars Bobby pub, of course, because they need to make money, and one in the Kirkyard, which you can't touch.
James SearbyHOST
So if you want to touch, you've got to go to the pub.
Susan RiddellHOST
I get this horrible feeling when I go down there.
Susan RiddellHOST
I went down there so my pal Nicola flew up from London on Sunday to come see my show so we went for food and then she'd never really seen Edinburgh she lived in Glasgow for years but she'd only been to Edinburgh when she used to play football like Gaelic football so she'd only went through on the bus to play football and hadn't really seen Edinburgh so we went a wee walk up the mile and took her to Greyfriars Bobby and stuff and then we went down to Mary's Milk Bar
Amanda DwyerHOST
oh is that nice does it live up to the
Susan RiddellHOST
hype it was really nice there was a big queue outside it went quite quick though we were like 15 minutes and that we'd been served and it was i got a pistachio and a lemon and cardamom rice pudding ice cream oh it was gorgeous oh well it was so nice sounds bougie i mean it was just ice cream but it was really nice ice cream
Scott GibsonHOST
You could have them like the fucking wee Doug.
Scott GibsonHOST
Greyfriars Bobby in Edinburgh you know he's he knows there's gone gold because it's been rubbed so many times maybe you could maybe we could do that with Dolly maybe we could we could have a statue a brass statue a Dolly and you know over time the nipples have gone gold because so many people
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I don't know
Scott GibsonHOST
I don't know but either way either way should we should we miss you know And as more people who you know pass away, more famous names, famous faces, it's just one of the things, I suppose in a way it reminds you that you are getting older and it reminds you that life is cruel and it can be short at times.
Gail PorterGUEST
And everybody stopped rubbing his nose, for goodness sake.
Gail PorterGUEST
How many times did you have to repaint poor Greyfriars Bobby's nose?
Mark DucanoHOST
Yeah.
Gail PorterGUEST
Really doggy.