Big Cat Conversations

About 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.

Publisher

Rick Minter

Category

science · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Aug 2019

Latest episode

27 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

145 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Sept 2026

   BCC EP:144 The farm and the wildwood – tales from a Derbyshire sheep farmer

   Jamie is a sheep and cattle farmer in Derbyshire. He’s experienced several big cat incidents, starting with seeing a black panther swat butterflies as a youngster while walking with his Grandmother. Jamie describes finding a cat’s lay-up spot with prey remains, being growled at, watching eyes like car headlights through night vision, and firing a warning shot beside a cat to make it retreat. Jamie is keen to learn more and content to live with big cats if they stick to natural pre...

2. 

   26 Aug 2026

   BCC: EP143 Hidden in the hillsides – from Cairngorms to South Wales

   Our First guest John Kirk is an experienced sheep and cattle farmer in the Cairngorms. His recent sighting of a black panther in the area prompted many more local reports on Facebook and to him direct. John also heard a description of a black panther fleeing the Cairngorms wildfires a week before this recording. John recounts his two other sightings of large cats in the area in the past. He explains his concerns on lynx reintroduction ideas, after attending a field trip on lynx issues in Swit...

3. 

   29 Jul 2026

   BCC EP:142 The Dean big five & TV big cat review

   Our first guest Robin Baker describes three big black cat sightings from the Forest of Dean and two pieces of his resulting artwork which include black leopards. Robin also explains his ‘Big Five’ creatures of the Dean which feature in his artwork. Robin also explains the scowles of the Forest of Dean, a landform which inspired Tolkein’s Lord of the Ring’s Middle-earth landscape. The scowles are gullies in the woods, produced by ancient iron ore mining and now used as eerie backdrops to Star ...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

69,351

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

154 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

29

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

96

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