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
24 episodes
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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22:19
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 discussed in today’s special episode with my wonderful guest Mark New...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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47:58
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 for part 2 with my interview with journalist Mark Newbold and a tease...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:14:30
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/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5Hello!I’m here with the ‘final episode’ of ‘Road to Rebirth’....
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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30:44
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) SPOILER Review with Derrick Davis and James Mottram
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5It’s finally here! Grab a Snickers, some Doritos and a c...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:27:24
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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56:51
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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51:41
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) SPOILER FREE Review
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5We’ve made it! In 2 days time the film will be released ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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18:32
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:15:03
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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9:28
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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58:08
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:03:13
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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50:50
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:10:01
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...
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Season 1
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6:44
Jurassic Themes of John Williams with Neil Brand (Broadcaster & Film Composer)
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5This week I’m excited to bring you an episode all about t...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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48:41
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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52:19
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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56:51
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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50:41
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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53:19
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:11:57
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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33:06
Road to Rebirth Trailer
🦖 Got a minute? Help shape the future of the podcast by filling in this quick form: https://forms.gle/wsz1wNygN4uhe39y5Do you remember the first time you saw a dinosaur? <...
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2:13
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...
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Season 1
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