Harry Jennings: Becoming a Greyhound Man
Episode 51: Recorded July 13, 2025 "One of the things that really struck me...the car park was the most egalitarian place in all of England..." Harry Jennings on the "great…
Background: Artwork from the homepage of the Virtual Coursing Museum
The Virtual Coursing Museum with David Midwood and Charlie Blanning
Episode 50: Recorded May 24, 2025 "[The Virtual Coursing Museum] dovetails so nicely with some of the goals of our podcast..." John Parker, on the announcement of the Virtual Coursing…
Background: Charlie Blanning (left) and Sir Mark Prescott (right)
Charlie Blanning and Sir Mark Prescott: Coursing Characters We Have Loved or Not Loved
Episode 47: Recorded December 22, 2024 "With the loss of any sport or pastime, it's the people you miss in the end…" Sir Mark Prescott on the people he met…
Left: Author and historian Charlie Blanning; Right: Partial cover of Charlie's second novel, "Electric Rabbit"
“Electric Rabbit”: Charlie Blanning’s Latest Work of Greyhound Fiction
Episode 45: Recorded August 11, 2024 "You need to write about what you know. You need to write about what you've experienced." Charlie Blanning on how his father's and grandfather's…
Left: 1989 Waterloo Cup winner React Fagan; right: trainer Kim Gooding
Kim Gooding: From Coursing to Racing
Episode 40: Recorded October 15, 2023 "It was like a fairy tale, really -- it just kept happening. Oh my god -- this is amazing!" Kim Gooding on her 1989…
Charlie Blanning (inset), and the cover of his first Greyhound novel, "Rags to Riches"
Virtual Launch: Charlie Blanning’s First Greyhound Novel, “Rags to Riches”
Episode 38: Recorded June 25, 2023 "I became fond of all the characters. I couldn't wait to get to keyboard to write down what they were going to do next."…
Clockwise, from left — Endless Gossip, Real Huntsman, Mick the Miller, and Westmead Hawk
Charlie Blanning and Gary Guccione: Racing’s Top Five Greyhounds
Episode 33: Recorded November 19, 2022 "He had become the darling of the crowds in England...we're talking about crowds...of a hundred thousand people..." Author Charlie Blanning on Mick the Miller,…
Charlie Blanning, Greyhound historian, and his latest book, Twenty Two Waterloo Cups
Virtual Launch: Charlie Blanning’s Twenty Two Waterloo Cups
Episode 29: Recorded June 26, 2022 "He said to me, 'Why don't you make it a personal record? Put more of yourself into it...'"Charlie Blanning, on the advice given to…
Jackie Teal, Greyhound coursing and racing trainer
Jackie Teal: Coursing & Racing Trainer
Episode 27: Recorded January 8, 2022 "It was indescribable -- the elation -- but also a sadness -- things can't get better than this..."Jackie Teal, Greyhound coursing and racing trainer,…
Greyhound history author, Charlie Blanning
Charlie Blanning’s Latest Greyhound History Project
Episode 26: Recorded December 16, 2021 “Why don’t you pick up the baton and write [about] the final years of the Waterloo cup?”Charlie Blanning on the inspiration for his next…