The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists: Jurassic Park & Prehistoric Fiction
Roland SquireFrom Jurassic Park to Jules Verne, Roland Squire explores how dinosaurs captured human imagination across 200 years of fiction. Season 2 — Stones to Stories — traces prehistoric literature from Victorian fossil hunters to Cold War science fiction, taking in Michael Crichton, Arthur Conan Doyle, and beyond. For fans of Jurassic Park, dinosaurs, natural history, and the books that put teeth into dee... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 27 | Founded | a year ago |
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Plymouth, summer of 1841. Richard Owen stepped before the British Association for the Advancement of Science and coined a word that would reshape our understanding of the deep past: Dinosauria. This episode follows that word... more
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Charles Dickens opened Bleak House with a megalosaurus waddling up Holborn Hill. This episode traces the stories we told about the bones in the rock before we knew what they were. I’m joined by Bexhill Museum curator Julian ... more
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Before Season 2 begins, here’s every film episode from Season 1 in one place!
Season 1 of The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists was called Road to Rebirth. Over the course of the season, we worked our way through all seven Jur... more
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Hello and welcome to the first episode of Season 2 of ‘The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists’.
The subtitle this year is ‘Stones to Stories’ and I will be looking at how we went from fossil folklore to alien planets populated... more
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- Jurassic fans will love it!
If you’re a fan of the Jurassic franchise, you’ll really enjoy this podcast. Lots of wonderful conversations with great guests. He covers all of the films, highlighting what makes the franchise so special. Check it out!
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A podcast centered on how dinosaurs have inspired fiction across two centuries, with a strong throughline from Jurassic Park to broader prehistoric storytelling. Episodes feature film critics, designers, museum educators, and community insiders discussing franchise evolution, character development, design aesthetics, score and soundtracks, and the cultural impact of dinosaurs in media. The show often blends deep dives into specific films or eras with broader conversations about storytelling, science, and fandom, and it frequently showcases guests who are deeply embedded in the Jurassic community or adjacent paleontological education. A standout pattern is balancing spoiler-lite and spoiler-heavy formats, plus thoughtful attention to design,... more
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