The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists

A podcast about dinosaur fiction — where it came from, what it means, and why it won’t stay buried.

The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists traces prehistoric imagination from Victorian fossil hunters and Jules Verne’s hollow earth to Arthur Conan Doyle’s lost worlds, Michael Crichton’s corporate hubris, and beyond. Season 2 — Stones to Stories — follows the deep time thread that runs through the books Jurassic Park was built on.

New episodes arriving 3rd June 2026.

Interviews with authors, palaeontologists, and scientists. The stories that gave extinction a story.

🎙️ Also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you listen.