The Literary CatCast

By Phebe Phillips, Cats and Literature

What's The Literary CatCast about?

The Literary CatCast is dedicated to the preservation of vintage books and writings with cats as main characters, bringing their awareness into the modern form of a podcast.

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The Literary CatCast episodes:

06.10.2021
A Kitten in Paradise
A drunken thief feeds a starving, stray kitten from a vessel of stolen milk. This kindness later creates a dramatic event at the gates of Heaven. A Kitten in Paradise was written by Cicely Hamilton in the late 1920(s) or...
04.15.2021
A Cat May Look At A King
A Cat May Look At A King was written by Jan Struther in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Struther also created the character, Mrs. Miniver, popular in the late 1930s and 1940s. In this story, a royal court cat...
12.24.2020
The Cat Who Came for Christmas
Cleveland Amory rescues a starving, hurt, stray white cat from a New York City alley on a snowy Christmas Eve night in 1977. This cat became known as his much loved cat, Polar Bear, featured in three of his best...
11.05.2020
The Paradise of Cats
The Paradise of Cats, written in 1864, by Emile Zola is the story of a fat, comfortable cat who longs to leave his luxurious life, and run wild on Paris rooftops. Told in the cat's own words, the cat soon...
06.17.2020
The Fat Cat
The Fat Cat, written in 1959 by the collaborative author group named, Q. Patrick, is categorized as suspense. It's a vintage short story that word plays on the childhood rhyme, The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat, but this is...
02.06.2020
The Cats of Ulthar
The Cats of Ulthar, written in 1920 by H. P. Lovecraft, tells the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be. A young traveller boy named Menes reacts to the murder of his kitten with...
01.14.2020
Tobermory
Tobermory, written in 1911, is a masterpiece short story satirizing the pretentiousness and dim-wittedness of Edwardian Era high-society. In this episode Mr. Appin has taught the Blemley's cat, Tobermory, to talk. Chaos, and plans of cat-murder ensue as Toby reveals...
12.24.2019
Cat and Mouse's Christmas Poem
Phebe Phillips reads her classic, charming Holiday poem about an unlikely friendship between a Cat and Mouse on Christmas Eve.
12.18.2019
Love Is a Special Way of Feeling
This book, Love Is a Special Way of Feeling by Joan Walsh Anglund was an antique mall find by Phebe. Usually episodes feature fully developed cat characters, but in this small book of sweet verse there is a one-line mention...
08.02.2019
The Boy Who Drew Cats
Phebe Phillips brings to life the 15th century Japanese legend, The Boy Who Drew Cats. This legend has been retold by many different authors. Phebe uses Margaret Hodges adaptation as her narration guideline. She pulls you into the story to...
06.04.2019
The Galloping Cat
The Galloping Cat is an entertaining, funny poem about a quirky, martyr cat that gallops about doing good. He encounters an invisible angel on a garden path and a fight ensues. Phebe Phillips discusses and reads the poem, The Galloping...
03.20.2019
Mr. Cat, and The Black Velvet Hair Bow
Ep 005- Mr. Cat, and The Black Velvet Hair Bow features the vintage book, Mr. Cat (1960) by George Freedley. It's a sweet, true story of his much-loved kitty, Mr. Cat. This episode is excerpted from a scene where Mr....
03.04.2019
The Literary CatCast Introduction Trailer
Are you a cat lover, a book reader, and possibly a hot tea drinker? The Literary CatCast is the Podcast for you. Short excerpts are read from vintage and current books. Episodes are whistled in by a tea kettle, and...
01.10.2019
The First Ship's Cat
In this episode Phebe chats about the history of cats on ships, even as far back as the Egyptians, and Vikings. Did you know black cats were lucky? A tea kettle whistles her listeners into a legend about Noah’s Ark,...
12.18.2018
Cat and Mouse's Christmas Poem
Phebe Phillips reads her classic, charming Holiday poem, Cat and Mouse's Christmas, about a friendship between a cat, and a mouse. Cat and Mouse’s Christmas by Phebe Phillips written December 12, 2018 On the night before Christmas, inside...
09.28.2018
From the Book, Charles: About the Naming of Cats
This episode is taken from an out-of-print book from 1952 titled, Charles—The Story of a Friendship. The book is about distinguished British publisher, Michael Joseph's relationship with his Siamese Cat named Charles. In this episode Mr. Joseph discusses that the...
09.28.2018
Cleveland Amory's, The Letters
Phebe Phillips shares with you a few letter about cats. After Cleveland Amory wrote his first book, The Cat Who Came for Christmas, about the stray he rescued, later naming Polar Bear, he received a lot of letters from cat...

What's The Literary CatCast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Literary CatCast episodes:

A Kitten in Paradise

A Cat May Look At A King

The Cat Who Came for Christmas

The Paradise of Cats

The Fat Cat

The Cats of Ulthar

Tobermory

Cat and Mouse's Christmas Poem

Love Is a Special Way of Feeling

The Boy Who Drew Cats

The Galloping Cat

Mr. Cat, and The Black Velvet Hair Bow

The Literary CatCast Introduction Trailer

The First Ship's Cat

Cat and Mouse's Christmas Poem

From the Book, Charles: About the Naming of Cats

Cleveland Amory's, The Letters