A Dolphin Pod

Feb 02 2024 1
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I’m Amy, a marine biologist and comedian who’s obsessed with dolphins - and I want you to be too. This podcast series tells the absolutely bonkers story of the first captive dolphin, explains how the industry operates today and examines whether or not it’s okay to keep dolphins in captivity at all (spoiler alert - it’s not). You’ll laugh, you might even cry, but no matter what happens you’ll learn a lot about dolphins.

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Episode 10 - The Winter’s Tail

Feb 02 2024 95 mins  
The final instalment of the show thrusts the dark matter of dolphin rescue and rehabilitation into the light. We meet Winter, the star of the 2011 movie Dolphin Tale. She was a wild dolphin who lost her tail in infancy and spent the rest of her life at a rescue centre. It may sound like a happy ending, but think again. The animals that enter the rehabilitation system usually don’

Episode 9 - Cove, Death and Robots

Jan 26 2024 90 mins  
A close examination of the concerted effort to hunt wild dolphins around the world, the history of whaling and the adorable but expensive plan to replace captive dolphins with robots. Beep boop.

Episode 8 - It’s the End of SeaWorld as we Know it

Jan 19 2024 83 mins  
The shocking and seedy truth behind the most famous orca facility on Earth, plus how one little documentary brought the world leader in whale captivity to its knees.

Episode 7 - LAW & ORCA

Jan 12 2024 62 mins  
In the captive whale system, the animals are oppressed by two separate yet equally unjust groups: the hunters that remove whales from the wild and the aquarium owners who profit off them. These are their stories.

Episode 6 - Whatever Happened to Baby Keiko?

Jan 05 2024 50 mins  
The unbelievable story of the real life Free Willy from his disturbing removal from the wild to his hotly-contested return to the sea.

Episode 5 - Natural Born Killer Whales

Dec 22 2023 47 mins  
We get inside the mind of the world’s most successful predator and investigate how the largest living dolphin fares confined in captivity versus living free in the open ocean.

Episode 4 - How to Train Your Dolphin

Dec 15 2023 79 mins  
Hear exactly how training works from start to finish and listen in on some insider secrets from a former trainer.

Episode 3 - Cathy’s Choice

Dec 08 2023 48 mins  
The tragic fate of the star of Flipper, how dolphins experience emotion and what happens if you give them LSD. No dolphins were harmed in the making of this episode.

Episode 2 - On the Origin of Dolphins

Dec 08 2023 57 mins  
A bumper episode of EVERYTHING you need to know about dolphins (and a lot you don’t need to know, I just can’t shut up about them).

Episode 1 - The Dolphin from the Black Lagoon

Dec 01 2023 53 mins  
How a meeting between the world’s first captive dolphin and a classic horror movie monster changed the course of history forever. Well, dolphin history at least.