Episode Details

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 Stories, and it traces prehistoric fiction from Victorian fossil folklore through pulp adventure to alien planets full of dinosaurs.

Here is the reading list the season is built on:

Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World
Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot trilogy
Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder
Anne McCaffrey, Dinosaur Planet
Harry Adam Knight, Carnosaur
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park and The Lost World
James Gurney, Dinotopia
Greg Bear, Dinosaur Summer
Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Red
Stephen Baxter, Evolution
Ethan Pettus, Primitive War
Lee Murray, Into the Mist

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Presented and produced by Roland Squire

Theme music: Caleb Burnett (@calebcomposed)

Cover artwork: @thejurassicartist

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