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

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.

Podcasting since 2025 • 36 episodes

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

Episodes

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, fr...

May 10, 2026 • Season 2 • 7:41:51

Extended Interview: 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 ...

Subscriber Episode • June 03, 2026 • Season 2 • 34:56

Extended Interview: The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs with Paleoartist Mark Witton

I’m joined by palaeontologist, palaeoartist and author Mark Witton to explore the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park: what they are, why they were built, and how they turned fragments of fossil evidence into full-bodied anima...

Subscriber Episode • July 02, 2026 • Season 2 • 50:05

Hey Roland! - Gareth Leaves The Island, DinoCon Debrief and Sam Neill Tribute

Who should direct the next Jurassic film now that Gareth Edwards has walked away? In this free sample of Hey, Roland!, the monthly bonus show for subscribers, I work through the director shortlist name by name, report back from DinoCon 2026 in ...

August 13, 2026 • Season 2 • 31:11

Stones To Stories: The Book List

Thirteen books, two hundred years, and one question: how did we get from fossils in the rock to dinosaurs on the page?This is the opening episode of Season 2 of The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists. The season is called Stones to Stori...

January 21, 2026 • Season 2 • Episode 1 • 22:19

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