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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 weeks ago58 min
Stones To Stories: Sea Dragons And Second Chances with Matthew Myerscough
Send me a voice message! Can searching the rocks for sea dragons bring you back from the worst day of your life? In this week's episode I swap the underground for the shoreline with fossil hunter Matthew Myerscough, whose story starts with an avalanche on Yr Wyddfa and leads to the ancient seas of the Severn shores. Along the way we talk about Mary Anning and the two kinds of time travel, a plesiosaur paddle rescued from a Somerset boulder in fifteen pieces, and the fifty million dollar T. re...
- 2 weeks ago1h 14m
Stones To Stories: Journey to the Centre of the Earth with Cian Gill (The Lost Valley Podcast)
Send me a voice message! In this weeks episode I head underground with The Lost Valley’s Cian Gill to trace how Jules Verne turns geology, ciphers and sheer wonder became the template for every lost world adventure. Along the way we talk about deep time dread, dodgy Victorian translations, and the sea-dragon spectacle that still makes modern monster stories work. Guests Cian Gill @the.lost.valley Congo Book Episode Congo Movie Episode The Book Journey to the Centre of the Earth F.A....
- 4 weeks ago56 min
Stones To Stories: The History of Science Fiction with professor and author Adam Roberts
Send me a voice message! Dinosaurs are real, which is exactly why they are so hard to write. Humans never lived alongside them, so any prehistoric fiction that wants characters, conflict, and drama has to cheat time, bend geography, or invent new science. I’m joined by Adam Roberts, professor of nineteenth-century literature at Royal Holloway and a leading critic of science fiction, to unpack how writers solve that problem and what those solutions reveal about our fears and fantasies. The Bo...
- Jun 23, 20261h 4m
Stones To Stories: The London Natural History Museum with Alastair Hendry and Tom Luker
Send me a voice message! In today’s episode we walk through the Natural History Museum as both a beloved London landmark and a working scientific institution, from its cathedral-like main hall to the hidden stories baked into the terracotta. Along the way, we unpack how Victorian ambition, dinosaurs, and modern conservation collide inside the UK’s most visited attraction. Support the show If you enjoy the show then it would mean a lot to me if you could rate & review on Apple Podcas...
- Jun 16, 20261h 11m
Stones To Stories: The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs with Mark Witton
Send me a voice message! 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 from Owen’s meeting hall to South London, where sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins turned fragmentary bones into life-size stone giants. I am joined by palaeoartist and author Mark Witton for a conversation about the history of the site and then...
- Jun 3, 202639 min
Stones To Stories: Before the Word “Dinosaur”
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!...
- May 10, 20267h 41m
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 understa...
- Jan 21, 202622 min
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 Appl...
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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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