Episode 3 - Cathy’s Choice

FINAL EPISODE! New listeners, start from the beginning!The last 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’t make it out alive. What they do make, however, is money.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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.