The Literary CatCast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
A Kitten in Paradise
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ki...
A Cat May Look At A King
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
The Cat Who Came for Christmas
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Paradise of Cats
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Par...
The Fat Cat
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 pla...
The Cats of Ulthar
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Tobermory
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tobermory, written in 1911, is a masterpiece short story satirizing the pretentiousness and dim-wittedness of Edwardian Era high-society. In this epis...
Cat and Mouse's Christmas Poem
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Phebe Phillips reads her classic, charming Holiday poem about an unlikely friendship between a Cat and Mouse on Christmas Eve.
Love Is a Special Way of Feeling
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 char...
The Boy Who Drew Cats
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 us...
The Galloping Cat
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 garde...
Mr. Cat, and The Black Velvet Hair Bow
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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-love...
The Literary CatCast Introduction Trailer
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The First Ship's Cat
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Cat and Mouse's Christmas Poem
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
From the Book, Charles: About the Naming of Cats
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 publish...
Cleveland Amory's, The Letters
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...