Everyone’s favourite West Yorkshire postman Kevin Boniface has just rekindled the Round About Town podcast with a half-hour special about dogs and postal workers (available here, or wherever you get your podcasts).

Kevin writes:

‘It’s basically me reading twenty-five years worth of dog-based entries from my Round About Town journals accompanied by some of the field recordings I’ve made while out and about on my rounds. It took me ages.

It’s well known that dogs and postal workers have a fractious relationship and I remember several years ago Royal Mail commissioned some research from a university (Loughborough, I think) to try and get to the bottom of exactly why this is the case. The results were, as far as I remember, inconclusive. In fact, the only information that filtered down to our shop-floor ‘team brief’ was advice on how to defend ourselves when we came under attack: try to position your mail pouch between yourself and the dog. I mean, hardly news.

Anyway, while my first-hand observations over the years might not be particularly conclusive (spoiler alert) I’m confident they give a level of insight that hasn’t hitherto been available. Also, I think you’ll find them entertaining. I did, that’s why I wrote them down.’

Like everything Kevin does, it’s a stroke of genius, so we highly recommend you give it a listen!