S4 E6. One last bite…

The time has come: it’s the final episode of Casting Lots. For real this time.

Join Alix and Carmella for all your remaining cannibalism questions answered, plus a bonus Arctic adventure involving an Italian airship and a very good dog.

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CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis. 

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Ashley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend. Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Filimonov, A. and R. Coalson. (2018). Cannibal Island: in 1933, nearly 5,000 died in one of Stalin’s most horrific labour camps. Available at: https://www.rferl.org/a/cannibal-island-in-1933-nearly-5-000-died-in-one-of-stalin-s-most-horrific-labor-camps/29341167.html

• Hug, C. (2012). ‘Nobile’s drama and Amundesen’s end’. Polar Journal, 24 April. Available at: https://polarjournal.ch/en/2021/04/24/nobiles-drama-and-amundsens-end/ 
• Museum of the World Ocean. (n.d.). Umberto Nobile’s Expedition 1928. Available at: https://www.krassin.ru/en/o-ledokole-en/podvig-vo-ldakh-en.html 
• Piesing, M. (2021). N-4 Down. Boston, NY: Mariner Books.
• ‘Ring Around Nobile’. (1928). Time, 6 August. Available at: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,787439-1,00.html 
• ‘Was Zappi a cannibal?’. (1929). Worker, 17 April, p. 2. Available at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71159996

TRANSCRIPT

Alix: Have you ever been really, really hungry?

Carmella: You’re listening to Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast.

A: I’m Alix.

C: I’m Carmella.

A: And now let’s tuck into the gruesome history of this ultimate taboo…

[Intro Music – Daniel Wackett]

C: Welcome to the final episode of this mini-season of Casting Lots. Alix and I asked you to send in any lingering questions about cannibalism, and here we are to answer them!

[Intro music continues]

C: Hello and welcome to the final ever episode!

A: Well, final bearing any major news stories that may or may not break in the future.

C: Yeah, you can still add to this list. [Laughs] But until then, this is the final ever episode of Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast. We mean it this time.

A: Fingers crossed. No, we do. We are genuinely out of content that we can find in English. We have scoured every bookshop.

C: We spend so much time in Waterstones looking through the indexes of various books that it’s becoming a bit creepy. And I think booksellers are going to start kicking us out.

A: I’ve actually run out of searches on eBay for ‘cannibalism book’, and they’re just trying to get me to buy cookbooks that I feel very uncomfortable about.

[Carmella laughs]

A: We have decided that all good things come to an end. And Season Four is, as we’ve said, barring the space cannibalism that might come in our lifetime– barring th