The Curious Cat
Narrated by ELEANOR BRON
Most people have strong feelings about cats; you either like them or dislike them. But few of us have ever glimpsed the private, undomestic world of the ordinary cat. So a unique field study was set up by the BBC and Oxford University, in the heart of the Devon countryside. On open farmland and away from the shelter of human influence, four feral cats - a mature torn and three females - were studied and filmed for a year. In charge of the project was David Macdonald , who has been able to piece together a picture of the cat which will make us all -whether cat-lovers or not -think quite differently about an animal which for centuries we have taken for granted.
Photography MAURICE TIBBLES Film editor BETTY BLOCK
Written and produced by PETER CRAWFORD BBC Bristol