Big Cat Conversations
The People's Podcast on Big Cat encounters in Britain. In each episode Rick Minter discusses big cat sightings with different witnesses, finding out what they saw or sensed, how they felt, and how these cases fit a bigger picture.
Podcasting since 2019 • 136 episodes
Big Cat Conversations
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BCC EP:136 North West safari - Cheshire leopards & the Cumbrian cub grows up…
Our first guest Darren describes his investigations on local marshes in Cheshire, where he’s seen a black leopard, chased by his dog. This happened after his previous encounters with similar looking cats nearby, including on a disused golf cour...
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BCC EP:135 Gaze of the cats - return visits to Glos & Herefordshire
Tracey had a prolonged and close view of a black panther outside her car at a forest edge in Gloucestershire in 2001. Two years later she was able to compare the cat with a black leopardess at Heythrop private zoo in the Cotswolds. ...
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Episode 135
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BCC EP:134 The Panthers of Avalon
Our first guest Sam describes his late brother Jake’s sighting of a black panther when he was fishing in south Devon. Then Sam explains his own view of a black leopard watching cattle and their calves on the Somerset levels near Glastonbury.&nb...
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Episode 134
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BCC EP:133 Watching, stalking & hiding - big cats at home in Britain
Lee our first guest describes his close observation of a puma stalking fallow deer in Buckinghamshire. He watched the circling deer behaviour as they responded as a protective group to the advancing predator, and he describes the fear he ...
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Episode 133
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BCC EP:132 Cats breaking out – tales from Hampshire & across the globe
Dave our guest had two big cat encounters in East Hampshire in the 1990s. We also hear some panther and puma incidents reported to him through his fishing and his zookeeper networks.Dave also mentions rumours of canned hunting in t...
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Episode 132
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