“So I thought: What’s the good of galloping about doing good when angels stand in the path and do not do as they should.” The Galloping Cat from All the Poems by Stevie Smith That’s a quote from The Galloping Cat. A poem by the late British writer Stevie Smith. For this episode it’s taken […]
The First Ship’s Cat
There were many reasons to have cats on ships. Rodents were one reason, but did you know cats were believed to have magical powers able to protect a ship at sea. Legend and myth are filled with stories about ship cats, and every ship had a few. It is believed that during the 15th-18th centuries […]