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
38 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...
Extended Interview: 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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Extended Interview: 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...
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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 through the director shortlist name by name, report back from DinoCon 2026 in ...
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 Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists. The season is called Stones to Stori...
Hey Roland Episode One - The Great Jurassic Silence of 2026
Welcome to the first episode of this subscribers special with VIDEO!In this months edition I breakdown the trailer for ‘The End of Oak Street’, impart my thoughts on The Great Jurassic Silence of 2026 and share a clip from my first book ...
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...
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...
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 beloved London landmark, and a working scientific institution with hun...
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 drama has to cheat time, bend geography, or invent new science. I’m joined by...
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 lost world adventure. Along the way we talk about deep time dread, dodgy Vi...
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 hunter Matthew Myerscough, whose story starts with an avalanche on Yr Wyddfa and...
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, rather than marine reptiles, at the centre of prehistoric fiction, and it rem...
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 himself, Sam Neill. This is an episode I never expected to make, but I co...
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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 "living dinosaur" of Central Africa, and the bigger question we can't stop circling:...
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...
