Big Cat Conversations

By Rick MinterSociety & Culture Science Natural Sciences Nature

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Big Cat Conversations episodes

February 12, 2021 BCC EP:44 Creatures of Kintyre – the New Wild
Cameron Nicoll explains the ideas that shaped his film Rare Creatures, on the big cat sightings of the Kintyre peninsula, and local resident George describes his close encounter with a black panther, which his dog detected first and growled at. George views big cats as a new part of Kintyre’s identity – adding to its sense of wildness.

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Word of the week: mystery
12 February 2021
56 min
January 29, 2021 BCC EP:43 Cockney Cats – epic tales from Epping & Essex
John takes us through several big cat sightings around Epping Forest, an ancient forest now busy with visitors on the north edge of Greater London, and we also hear from Mike who collided with a black panther driving on the A13 near the M25 in Essex.
Words of the week: wood pasture
29 January 2021
1 hr 6 min
January 15, 2021 BCC EP:42 Mystery in the Green Belt – Hertfordshire’s big cats
Laura describes her three black panther encounters in north Hertfordshire, each of which seemed a different cat, while Lian our second guest runs the County’s big cats Facebook group, with ongoing reports of panthers, pumas and lynx.
Word of the week: exotic
15 January 2021
55 min
January 01, 2021 BCC EP:41 Edge of town safari – the predator and its prey
Ann, her son and their dogs disturbed a stalking panther on their evening walk in November 2020 – it was poised for attack as they watched events unfold…
Rick and Ann discuss several other reported big cat encounters across Gloucestershire in recent years.
1 January 2021
Word of the week: safari
53 min
December 19, 2020 BCC EP:40 Shadowed on the tracks – after dark with the Peak panther
One night in the Derbyshire Peak District, Billy our guest had some unexpected company as he did his rail-line inspection.
Billy also explains why big cats might find railway lines convenient for food supply and for travel routes.
Word of the week: ABCs
19 December 2020
56 min
December 05, 2020 BCC EP:39 Meet the neighbour – cat from the quarry
Annie re-lives several close encounters with a panther in Somerset in a nearby quarry in 1993 – a reminder that big cats were experienced many years past, and close to where similar reports happen now.

Annie now lives in southern Ireland and briefly considers big cat reports across the republic and Northern Ireland.
Word of the week: chatoyant
5 December 2020
49 min
November 21, 2020 BCC EP:38 Prowling panthers & pumas – Summer sightings 2020
Tim was amazed to see a black panther in fields neighbouring his house in Berkshire in 2020 – he’d previously seen one on Salisbury Plain in 2004, while our second guest Maria watched a tan coloured puma carrying a rabbit in its mouth in Gloucestershire, then sensed it lurking in the dark and spooking her dogs, in July 2020.
Both guests explain setting up trail cameras in the hope of filming the cats they encountered.
Words of the week: green bridges
21 November 2020
1 hr 4 min
November 07, 2020 BCC EP:37 Eurasian lynx in Britain - back to the future
David Hetherington, author of The Lynx and Us, re-lives the moment he was watched by a lynx in Switzerland and explains how the vivid wildlife and lynx photographs for his book were captured by Laurent Geslin. He considers when the lynx died out in the past in Britain and discusses how lynx reintroduction projects have been carried out in parts of Europe.
7 November 2020
Word of the week: lucerve
1 hr 1 min
October 30, 2020 BCC EP:36 Lynx in Britain – a hidden recovery?
Maria in Cornwall saw a lynx leap away in her woodland, while Rob in Gloucestershire drove past a lynx walking along a roadside ditch - both our guests explain how these encounters changed their view of the British countryside.
30 October 2020
Word of the week: stochastic
55 min
October 17, 2020 BCC EP:35 Beasts of the moors and tors
Matt Jones explains the challenge of filming large cats in Devon and Cornwall with trail cameras – one of his photos is discussed in the coming documentary Britain’s Big Cat Mystery, and we also hear of his sighting of a panther-like cat in October 2020.
17 October 2020
Word of the week: pardus
1 hr

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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…