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

Monsters & Myths with Natalie Lawrence (Author of Enchanted Creatures)

While I’m ensconced in the maintenance shed getting ready for the next few episodes I’m going to bring you my extended interview with Natalie Lawrence. In it we talk abou

Living Dinosaurs, Cryptids and Michael Crichton’s Congo with Eddie Guimont

You're in a canoe, sweating in thick jungle heat, and something enormous stirs in the water ahead. That's the mood pulling us into Mokele-mbembe, the legendary

Celebrating Sam Neill with James Mottram

How did a self-described character actor become the beating heart of the biggest film franchise on Earth? At the beginning of July we lost our dinosaur man, Dr Alan Grant

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 thro

The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle with Richard Fallon

In 1912 Arthur Conan Doyle dragged four men to the far edge of the map and brought Dinosaurs back to reality! The Lost World is the first major work to put dinosaurs, rat

Sea Dragons And Second Chances with Matthew Myerscough

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 h

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne with Cian Gill

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 l

The History of Science Fiction with professor and author Adam Roberts

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 dra

Inside London’s Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is the most visited attraction in the UK, and almost nobody looks up. In this episode I walk through the museum as two things at once: a belov

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

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 t

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

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 Pir

What Jurassic Can Learn from Star Wars with Mark Newbold (FanthaTracks)

What can Jurassic learn from Star Wars? Would Jurassic work as a TV show or would it loose it’s special cinematic exclusivity?  All of these questions and more are discu

Jurassic 2025 - End of Year Special with Tom Jurassic and Conor O’Keeffe

To round out the year and to launch the brand new podcast look and name I am joined by Conor O’Keeffe and Tom Jurassic to chat all things Jurassic’25. Tune in next week

The “Final Episode” with (nearly) everyone

🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5 Hello! I’m here with the ‘final episode’ of ‘Roa

Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) SPOILER Review with Derrick Davis and James Mottram

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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/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5 Today I am joined by the Lead Graphic Designer of

The Creators of The New Jurassic Era with James Mottram

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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/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5 We’ve made it! 2022’s ‘Jurassic World Dominion’