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 • 33 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 • 7:42:11

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 • 35:16

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 • 50:25

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...

January 21, 2026 • Season 2 • Episode 1 • 22:39

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...

June 03, 2026 • Season 2 • Episode 2 • 40:07

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