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Background: Charlie Blanning (left) and Sir Mark Prescott (right)

Charlie Blanning and Sir Mark Prescott: Coursing Characters We Have Loved or Not Loved

Post author:Michael Burns
Post published:December 29, 2024
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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…

Wilby & Sons Family Butchers, Dickleburgh, Norfolk, England (left); Mr. Charlie Wilby (right)

Bonus: Mr. Wilby’s Speech to the Children

Post author:Michael Burns
Post published:September 10, 2021

Episode 22 (Bonus): Recorded August 22, 2021 “I hope you children will have happy memories of today.”Charlie Wilby, butcher and coursing enthusiast, 1987 Show Notes Our first bonus episode revisits…

Sir Mark Prescott (left) and Charlie Blanning (right)

The Greatest of Coursing

Post author:Michael Burns
Post published:March 19, 2021
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Episode 12: Recorded February 13, 2021 "I hope you children you all enjoy today, and I hope you will get as much fun from coursing and coursing people as I…

Sir Mark Prescott, dean of British coursing and race horse trainer

Greyhounds and Coursing with Sir Mark Prescott

Post author:Michael Burns
Post published:December 8, 2020

Episode 9: Recorded December 5, 2020 "I saw nice people and nice dogs and marvelous hares, and I thought, ‘What a grand spectacle.’"Sir Mark Prescott, on seeing his first coursing…