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The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists: Jurassic Park & Prehistoric Fiction

Roland Squire
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From 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 deep time.

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  1. Episode 1

    Stones To Stories: The Book List

    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 with dinosaurs and taking in a whole host of other exciting dinosaur tales.  The season starts in earnest sometime in the Spring. Send me a voice message! Support the show If you enjoy the show then it would mean a lot to me if you could rate & review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps this show find more Jurassic fans like you! Presented and produced by Roland Squire Theme music: Caleb Burnett (@calebcomposed) Cover artwork: @thejurassicartist Find us: @JurassicPiratesPod on Instagram

    22 min

  2. Episode 2

    Stones To Stories: Before the Word “Dinosaur” with Natalie Lawrence (author of Enchanted Creatures)

    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 Porter and author Natalie Lawrence. For the extended interview with Natalie Lawrence, you can hear it by subscribing to the Plus version of the podcast in Apple Podcasts or clicking the ‘support the show’ link below. A huge thank you to Guy Adams for the opening narration! Guests Julian Porter Curator at Bexhill Museum and author of Bexhill on Sea: A History https://amzn.to/4wL8eQ6 (affiliated link so I might earn commission on items bought) https://www.instagram.com/bexhill_museum?igsh=ZXh5Mm12c2R6Z2pu Natalie Lawrence Author of Enchanted Creatures, a history of the monsters we have made from the natural world https://amzn.to/4dQqtuK (affiliated link so I might earn commission on items bought) https://www.nataliejlawrence.com/ https://www.instagram.com/natalie.j.lawrence Links Mark Witton: Unicorns, dragons, monsters and giants Natalie references Mark’s work in this episode, picking apart the arguments for mythological creatures being derived from fossil discoveries. https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2018/04/unicorns-dragons-monsters-and-giants.html?m=1 Bexhill Museum: Dinosaurs and Geology https://www.bexhillmuseum.org.uk/access-centre/museum-exhibitions-displays/dinosaurs-geology/ Send me a voice message! Support the show If you enjoy the show then it would mean a lot to me if you could rate & review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps this show find more Jurassic fans like you! Presented and produced by Roland Squire Theme music: Caleb Burnett (@calebcomposed) Cover artwork: @thejurassicartist Find us: @JurassicPiratesPod on Instagram

    40 min

  3. Bonus

    Road To Rebirth: The Film Episodes

    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 Jurassic films, from Spielberg’s original in 1993 to Jurassic World Rebirth in 2025.  This compilation brings together all seven film episodes as a single listen. Perfect for catching up before Stones to Stories begins on 3rd June, or for new listeners wanting to understand where the show came from. Episodes included: Jurassic Park (1993) with Derrick Davis · The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) with Caleb Burnett · Jurassic Park III (2001) with Daniel Stephen · Jurassic World (2015) with Brad Jost · Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) with Samantha Endres · Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) with Sam Phillips and Jack Ewins · Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) with James Mottram and Derrick Davis Send me a voice message! Support the show If you enjoy the show then it would mean a lot to me if you could rate & review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps this show find more Jurassic fans like you! Presented and produced by Roland Squire Theme music: Caleb Burnett (@calebcomposed) Cover artwork: @thejurassicartist Find us: @JurassicPiratesPod on Instagram

  4. Dinosaurs, Dragons and Godzilla with Natalie Lawrence (author of Enchanted Creatures)

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    Dinosaurs, Dragons and Godzilla with Natalie Lawrence (author of Enchanted Creatures)

    In this extended interview Natalie and I talk about her love for the Pangolin and Richard Owen’s fascination with the Aye-Aye.  Enchanted Creatureshttps://amzn.to/4dQqtuK (affiliated link so I might earn commission on items bought) Links  Mark Witton: Unicorns, dragons, monsters and giants https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2018/04/unicorns-dragons-monsters-and-giants.html?m=1 Richard Owen and the Aye-Aye https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/richard-owen-aye-aye

    35 min
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From 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 deep time.

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