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.
Episodes
29 episodes
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 ...
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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...
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 dino...
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 Na...
Stones To Stories: The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs with Mark Witton
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...
Stones To Stories: The London Natural History Museum with Alastair Hendry and Tom Luker
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 ho...
Jurassic World Rebirth Trailer Reaction
Are you as excited as me that a new Jurassic film is out this summer? Directed by Gareth Edwards, from a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, and stuffed full with amazing actors - there’s no better time to go back to wher...
Jurassic World Rebirth - FINAL TRAILER Reaction!
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5It's here!I've literally just thrown this together and got it...
Jurassic Park : A Novel (1990) with James Lovegrove
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5If you are as excited as I am about Jurassic World Rebirt...
Jurassic Park (1993) with Derrick Davis (Jurassic Time)
If you are as excited as I am about Jurassic World Rebirth which is releasing this summer this is the podcast for you. Each week in the lead up to the film I am going to be sitting down with a guest to discuss an entry or aspect of the Jurassic...
The Lost World: A Novel (1995) with Guy Adams and James Lovegrove
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5I think genius of Michael Crichton lies not in his warmth...
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) with Caleb Burnett (Jurassic Outpost)
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y51993 was a huge year for Steven Speilberg. He released 'J...
Jurassic Park 3 (2001) with Daniel Stephen (Stuck On Sorna)
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5Are you ready for a #SpinosaurusSummer?In 1998 the fact that ...
Ten Years of Jurassic Fandom with Steven Ray Morris (See Jurassic Right)
Steven Ray Morris has spent ten years hosting See Jurassic Right — one of the longest-running Jurassic podcasts around. In this episode he joins me to talk about what keeps a fandom alive, his own journey into podcasting, and his hotte...
Jurassic Themes of John Williams with Neil Brand (Broadcaster & Film Composer)
This week I’m excited to bring you an episode all about the wonder of John Williams. Joining me is composer, pianist, writer and broadcaster Neil Brand.We discuss Williams' influence on film music, the collaboration between Will...
Welcome to Jurassic Universe with Tom Jurassic
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5The Jurassic Franchise might not be the ‘everything is connected’ st...
What Jurassic Park Got Right (and Wrong) About Dinosaurs — with Conor O'Keeffe (Museum Educator)
How accurate are the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park? Conor O'Keeffe works in museum education and spends his days answering exactly that question for the public.We go through the franchise's most iconic animals, dig into the real science beh...
Jurassic World (2015) with Brad Jost (The Jurassic Park Podcast)
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5In 2015 ‘Jurassic World’ roared into cinemas and audiences turned ou...
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) with Samantha Endres
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5Fallen Kingdom is the gothic sheep of the family. It continues to di...
7 Questions Jurassic World Rebirth Needs to Answer
We're two days away from Jurassic World Rebirth and I've got questions.In this short solo episode I work through exactly what I need from this film — the hopes, the anxieties, and what it would actually take for Jurassic to feel...
Jurassic World Dominion (2022) with Jack Ewins and Sam Phillips
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5We’ve made it!2022’s ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ was...
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) SPOILER FREE Review
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The Creators of The New Era with James Mottram
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5Happy Rebirth Release Day!I’m very excited to bring you my in...
Jurassic Graphics with Matthew Clark (Lead Graphic Designer for ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’)
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5Today I am joined by the Lead Graphic Designer of ‘Jurassic World Re...
