The Lost Valley

Cian
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The Lost Valley is an Irish podcast about ‘Lost Worlds’ in Life and Literature. Join me here at the Explorer’s Club for a drink and some tall tales about hidden prehistoric valleys, lost underground civilisations, smokey Edwardian seances, haunted house stakeouts. We love cryptozoology, weird science, and old adventure novels. Look – it’s a pterodactyl!

Episodes

  1. Heartless in Atlantis: Dennis Wheatley's 'The Man Who Missed The War'

    MAR 8

    Heartless in Atlantis: Dennis Wheatley's 'The Man Who Missed The War'

    Dennis Wheatley is better known for his occult novels. But he wrote several 'lost race' novels as well. 'The Man Who Missed The War' from 1946 is by far the daftest of them all, though of course it has that Wheatley charm. Take a seat at the Explorer's Club for a tale of Atlanteans and leprechauns (with extra giant crabs).

    27 min
  2. The Road To The Lost World: The Cryptozoology of Arthur Conan Doyle

    FEB 27

    The Road To The Lost World: The Cryptozoology of Arthur Conan Doyle

    'There are jungles of the upper air, and there are worse things than tigers which inhabit them ...' Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a few stories, other than The Lost World , which might be considered important to the history of Cryptozoology. In this episode, we examine 'The Terror of Blue John Gap' and 'The Horror Of The Heights.'

    59 min
  3. Telling Tales: King Kong's Spider-Pit Sequence

    FEB 19

    Telling Tales: King Kong's Spider-Pit Sequence

    The lost 'Spider-Pit Sequence' from the original 1933 King Kong has long been the subject of much lore and myth-making. Was it truly a scene so disturbing it had to be cut? Were audiences terrified by the sight of stop-motion spiders, crabs and octopus-armed critters devouring the crew of the Venture? Was this scene even filmed around all? You're invited to the Explorer's Club as Cian seeks out varying versions of the tale from his many books on King Kong. ERRATA: I mistakenly state that the Arsinotherium was an Ice Age mammal - it is, of course, much much older - 30 to 60 million years, in fact. Apologies to my better-informed listeners.

    41 min

  4. FEB 17

    All The Time In The World: Lost Horizon (James Hilton, 1933)

    For your first trip to the Explorer's Club, crack open a copy of James Hilton's 1933 classic 'Lost Horizon.' Journey to Shangri-La, where sensitive types from many countries wait out the turbulent 1930s, recovering from the last War and hiding out from the inevitable Next War. And just what does 'Glory' Conway and his visitors think of the place? And just what do they think of the colonial powers? Surprises abound in this somewhat ambiguous example of Lost World / Lost Race fiction.

    16 min
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About

The Lost Valley is an Irish podcast about ‘Lost Worlds’ in Life and Literature. Join me here at the Explorer’s Club for a drink and some tall tales about hidden prehistoric valleys, lost underground civilisations, smokey Edwardian seances, haunted house stakeouts. We love cryptozoology, weird science, and old adventure novels. Look – it’s a pterodactyl!

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  • Creator
    Cian
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Cian
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