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  • The time has come: it's the final episode of Casting Lots. For real this time.

    Join Alix and Carmella for all your remaining cannibalism questions answered, plus a bonus Arctic adventure involving an Italian airship and a very good dog.

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    TRANSCRIPT

    https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/12/05/s4-e6-one-last-bite/

    CREDITS

    Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

    Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

    Logo by Ashley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    Filimonov, A. and R. Coalson. (2018). Cannibal Island: in 1933, nearly 5,000 died in one of Stalin’s most horrific labour camps. Available at: https://www.rferl.org/a/cannibal-island-in-1933-nearly-5-000-died-in-one-of-stalin-s-most-horrific-labor-camps/29341167.html

    Hug, C. (2012). ‘Nobile’s drama and Amundesen’s end’. Polar Journal, 24 April. Available at: https://polarjournal.ch/en/2021/04/24/nobiles-drama-and-amundsens-end/

    Museum of the World Ocean. (n.d.). Umberto Nobile’s Expedition 1928. Available at: https://www.krassin.ru/en/o-ledokole-en/podvig-vo-ldakh-en.html

    Piesing, M. (2021). N-4 Down. Boston, NY: Mariner Books.

    ‘Ring Around Nobile’. (1928). Time, 6 August. Available at: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,787439-1,00.html

    ‘Was Zappi a cannibal?’. (1929). Worker, 17 April, p. 2. Available at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71159996

  • We are joined by our final dinner guests, writer Nibedita Sen and Ana and Luca of The Mayday Podcast, to talk speculative fiction, colonialism and some disastrous adventures that may not have ended in survival cannibalism, but probably should have.

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    TRANSCRIPT

    https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/11/29/s4-e5-dinner-guests-nibedita-sen-the-mayday-podcast/

    CREDITS

    Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis. With guest appearances from Nibedita Sen and The Mayday Podcast.

    Nibedita can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @her_nibsen, or check out her website at https://www.nibeditasen.com/.

    'Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island' is published in Nightmare Magazine (May 2019, 80). Read it here: https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-excerpts-from-an-annotated-bibliography-on-the-cannibal-women-of-ratnabar-island/.

    The game 'First Times' is available in Strange Horizons (2022): http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/first-times/.

    Watch Nibedita and Carmella along with some other familiar faces in the panel 'Worldbuilders After Dark: Cannibalism in Real World and Genre Fiction' via Worldbuildersinc on YouTube (14 December 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik7yV0kVJdM.

    The Mayday Podcast can be found online at https://themaydaypod.com/, and on Twitter and Instagram as @TheMaydayPod.

    Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

    Logo by Ashley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

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  • Why do we (being the specific group of people who make and listen to Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast) enjoy narratives about survival cannibalism so much? Authors Ally Wilkes and Linnea Hartsuyker join us to discuss the power of storytelling.

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    TRANSCRIPT

    https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/11/21/s4-e4-dinner-guests-ally-wilkes-amp-linnea-hartsuyker/

    CREDITS

    Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis. With guest appearances from Ally Wilkes and Linnea Hartsuyker.

    Ally Wilkes can be found on Twitter as @UnheimlichManvr and on Instagram as @av_wilkes, or visit her website to find out more: https://www.allywilkes.com/. All the White Spaces (Titan Books, 2022) is out now: https://titanbooks.com/70684-all-the-white-spaces/.

    Linnea Hartsuyker can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @linneaharts, or explore her website: https://www.linneahartsuyker.com/. The Half-Drowned King is the first novel in her trilogy of books (Little, Brown, 2017): https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/linnea-hartsuyker/the-half-drowned-king/9780349142531/.

    For further information on the caloric content of sea lice, please refer to ‘Chances for Arctic Survival: Greely’s Expedition Revisited’ by J.M. Węslawski and J. Legeżyńska in Arctic (2002), 55(4), pp. 373-379: http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic55-4-373.pdf.

    Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.
    Logo by Ashley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

    Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

  • One historian and six podcasters walk into a bar… This week, we’re chatting corpse medicine, recipe recommendations and penny dreadfuls with academic Richard Sugg, Ric and Anton of the Curiosity of a Child podcast, and Teddy and Catriona of the Grave History podcast.

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    TRANSCRIPT

    https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/11/14/s4-e3-dinner-guests-richard-sugg-curiosity-of-a-child-amp-grave-history/

    CREDITS

    Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis. With guest appearances from Richard Sugg, Curiosity of a Child’s Ric and Anton, and Grave History’s Teddy and Catriona.

    Richard Sugg can be found on Twitter as @DrSugg and on Instagram as @drrichardsugg. Read more about corpse medicine in his book Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires, third edition (self published, 2020): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mummies-Cannibals-Vampires-History-Medicine/dp/B08DSZ2ZXX/. Or try Richard’s books for children, Our Week with the Juffle Hunters (self published, 2019): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Week-Juffle-Hunters-Richard-Sugg/dp/1086958969/ and Ride Your Horse Through the Chocolate Sauce (self published, 2020): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ride-Horse-Through-Chocolate-Sauce/dp/B08QRB3DKY/.

    The Curiosity of a Child podcast can be found online at curiosityofachild.com, or on Twitter and Instagram as @curichildpod. Not sure where to start? Try their episode on ‘Corpse Medicine: From mummies to brains to mellified man’ (31 October 2020): https://curiosityofachild.com/episodes/halloween-special-corpse-medicine.

    The Grave History Podcast can be found on Twitter as @GraveHistoryPod. For more on penny dreadfuls, try their episode ‘Dreadful and Nasty’ (5 April 2020): https://soundcloud.com/gravehistorypodcast/10-dreadful-and-nasty, or get your gross on with ‘You Know Cholera, John Snow’ (5 September 2020): https://soundcloud.com/gravehistorypodcast/15-you-know-cholera-john-snow. 

    Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

    Logo by Ashley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

    Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

  • What’s so scary about cannibalism? We talk to horror experts Neil McRobert, host of Talking Scared Podcast, and Nicasio Andres Reed, editor at the Deadlands, to find out.

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    TRANSCRIPT

    https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/11/07/s4-e2-dinner-guests-neil-mcrobert-amp-nicasio-andres-reed/

    CREDITS

    Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis. With guest appearances from Neil McRobert and Nicasio Andres Reed.

    You can find Neil McRobert on Twitter as @NakMac. Hear more from Neil on the Talking Scared Podcast: https://talkingscaredpod.com/. You can read his short story, ‘A Well-Fed Man’, in The Fiends in the Furrows II, published by Nosetouch Press (2020): https://www.nosetouchpress.com/project/the-fiends-in-the-furrows-ii-more-tales-of-folk-horror/. Or check out Neil’s recommendations of ‘The 50 Best Horror Books of All Time Will Scare You Sh*tless’ in Esquire, 9 May 2022: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g37676766/scary-horror-books/.

    You can find Nicasio Andres Reed on Twitter as @nicasioreed, and the Deadlands online: https://thedeadlands.com/. Looking for something to read? Try Katie Gill’s ‘The Custom of the Sea’ in Deadlands 13 (May 2022): https://thedeadlands.com/issue-13/the-custom-of-the-sea/.

    Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

    Logo by Ashley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

    Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

  • Are you ready for an extra bite? In this bonus mini-season, Alix and Carmella invite some special dinner guests to the table.

    Today, bioarchaeologist Stacy Hackner and folklorist Paul Cowdell join us to talk cannibal ballads, coprolites and the custom of the sea.

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    TRANSCRIPT

    https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/10/31/s4-e1-dinner-guests-stacy-hackner-amp-paul-cowdell/

    CREDITS

    Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis. With guest appearances from Stacy Hackner and Paul Cowdell, and special thanks to Chris Wilson of the London Sea Shanty Collective for vocals.

    Stacy Hackner can be found on Twitter as @stacytg, or check out her drag projects on Instagram as @professor_q_cumber.

    Paul Cowdell can be found on Twitter as @PaulCowdell, and on his blog: http://humphreywithhisflail.blogspot.com/. ‘Cannibal Ballads: not just a question of taste’ was first published in 2010 in the Folk Music Journal 9(5), pp. 723-747. Read it online here: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cannibal+ballads%3a+not+just+a+question+of+taste+…-a0213983185.

    Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

    Logo by Ashley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

    Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

  • Coming 31 October 2022: Season 4 of Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast.

    Join Alix and Carmella for an extra helping of survival cannibalism in this bonus mini-season, featuring a number of special dinner guests.

    TRANSCRIPT
    https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/10/03/season-4-trailer/

    CREDITS
    Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

    Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

    Logo by Ashley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

    Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

  • In time honoured tradition, have a laugh on us this April Fool’s Day. It’s the blooper reel! Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shop CREDITS Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis. Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel … Continue reading Season 3 Outtakes

  • Finishing off the season, and indeed the entirety of Casting Lots (boo hoo!), Carmella and Alix present six quick-fire stories of survival cannibalism at sea.Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shopTRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/01/20/s3-e13-sea-part-v---more-fun-on-boats/CREDITSWritten, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.BIBLIOGRAPHYBarcia, M. (2016). UCL Americas Seminar: White Cannibalism in the Slave Trade: The Curious Case of the Schooner 'Arrogante'. Available at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/events/2016/nov/white-cannibalism-slave-trade-curious-case-schooner-arrogante Barcia, M. (2017). ‘The real horrors of the transatlantic slave trade behind Taboo and Roots’, The Conversation, 1 March. Available at: https://theconversation.com/the-real-horrors-of-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-behind-taboo-and-roots-73568 Barcia, M. (2021). ‘White Cannibalism in the Illegal Slave Trade’, New West Indian Guide, 22 July. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-bja10002 DeSpair, C. (2019). ‘Cannibalism At Sea’, Decidedly Grim, 4 July. Available at: http://www.decidedlygrim.net/?p=7331 Faiella, G. (n.d.) Terrible true tales of life at sea. Available at: https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/terrible-true-tales-of-life-at-sea/ Faiella, G. (2019). Cannibals and Carnage: Thrilling Tales of the Sea. Vol. 1. Cheltenham: History Press.Frost, D. (2020). ‘‘Provisions being scarce and pale death drawing nigh, / They'd try to cast lots to see who should die’: The Justification of Shipwreck Cannibalism in Popular Balladry’, Exchanges, 7(2). Available at: https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/article/view/459 Graham, L. et al. (2020). ‘SV Drot (+1899)’, Wrecksite, 30 September. Available at: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?168851&fbclid=IwAR01zmvkDYkywggoAv2fvXSU5rZsqeSEcXJCq2Z6AnEKM4LxVVvCRhyQYys Hepworth Dixon, C. (1981). Seamen And The Law: An Examination Of The Impact Of Legislation On The British Merchant Seaman’s Lot, 1588-1918. Ph. D Thesis. University College London. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1317735/1/282305.pdf Jones, S.K. (1982). A Maritime History Of The Port Of Whitby, 1700-1914. Ph. D Thesis. University College London. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1381923/1/389634.pdf Méaulle, F. (1899). Un nouveau radeau de ‘la Méduse’. [Engraving]. Available at: https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Fortun%C3%A9-M%C3%A9aulle/743192/The-new-Raft-of-the-Medusa,-1899.--.html Morgan, M. (2021). ‘Adrift in stormy seas, Delaware pilot crew survives on cannibalism: History’, Delmarva Now, 7 March. Available at: https://eu.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2021/03/07/adrift-stormy-seas-delaware-pilot-crew-survives-cannibalism/6876403002/ Salmons, K. (2011). ‘Cannibalism and the Greely Arctic Expedition: A New Source for "Falk"’, The Conradian, 36(1), pp. 58-69. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20873715 Salmons, K. (2017). Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad. London: Palgrave Macmillan.Shortland, S. (2020). ‘'Bites here and there': Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism Across Disciplines Conference Review’, Exchanges, 7(2). Available at: https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/article/view/550 Simpson, A.W.B. (1981). ‘Cannibals at Common Law’, The Law School Record, 27, pp. 3-10. Available at: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=crosskey_lectures Simpson, A.W.B. (2003). Cannibalism and the Common Law. London: A&C Black.Société d'Archéologie et de Mémoire Maritime. (2017). Le Cannibalisme de Survie. Available at: http://www.archeosousmarine.net/cannibale.php Zajonc, T. (2014). ‘1899 – The Drot’, Expedition Writer, 18 June. Available at: https://expeditionwriter.com/1899-the-drot/

  • This week, Alix shares the choose-your-own adventure tale of the HMS Wager, an 18th century British ship on a mission to annoy the Spanish. At any cost.Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shopTRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/01/13/s3-e12-sea-part-iv---the-hms-wager/CREDITSWith thanks to Emily for transcription help.Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.BIBLIOGRAPHYByron, G.G. (2021). Don Juan. Urbana, IL: Project Gutenberg. Available at: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21700/21700-h/21700-h.htm Craciun, A. (2011). ‘Writing the Disaster: Franklin and Frankenstein’, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 65(4), pp. 433-480. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncl.2011.65.4.433 Cusack, T. (ed.) (2017). Framing the Ocean, 1700 to the Present. London: Routledge.Harvey, I. (2016). ‘The gruesome tale of ‘HMS Cannibal’ shipwrecked, murder & crew being eaten by shipmates’, Vintage News, 25 May. Available at: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/24/the-gruesome-tale-of-hms-cannibal-shipwrecked-murder-crew-being-eaten-by-shipmates/ Layman, C.H. (2015). The Wager Disaster. Luton: Andrews UK.Robertson, J.A. (2016). Selfhood, Boundaries, and Death in Maritime Literature, 1768-1834. Pd. D Thesis. University of Leeds. Available at: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16343/1/Selfhood%20Boundaries%20and%20Death%20in%20Maritime%20Literature%201768-1834.pdfStallings, A.E. (2017). ‘Shipwreck Is Everywhere’, Hudson Review, 70(3), pp. 365-399. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44786322 Trifilo, S.S. (1960). ‘British Travel Accounts on Argentina before 1810’, Journal of Inter-American Studies, 2(3), pp. 239-256. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/165039 Venning, A. (2015). ‘The terrible tale of HMS Cannibal: Forgotten for centuries, it's a saga, told in a new book, of shipwreck, mutiny and murder that scandalised Britain…’, Daily Mail, 16 April. Available at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3041028/The-terrible-tale-HMS-Cannibal-Forgotten-centuries-s-saga-told-new-book-shipwreck-mutiny-murder-scandalised-Britain.html

  • When John F. Kennedy backs an invasion by sea of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, disastrously poor planning leaves Brigade 2506 in dire straits.Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shopTRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/01/06/s3-e11-sea-part-iii---the-bay-of-pigs/CREDITSWritten, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.BIBLIOGRAPHYAlfonso, P. (1998). ‘Bay of Pigs survivor: We became cannibals’, Miami Herald, 16 April. Available at: http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/bay-of-pigs/baypigs2.htm ‘Bay of Pigs Invasion’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion ‘Bay of Pigs Survivor Tells ‘Secret’ of Cannibalism’. (1998). Orlando Sentinel, 16 April. Available at: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1998-04-16-9804151076-story.html Cannibalism: Secrets Revealed. (2007). History Channel, 24 April. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I95evV1eYqQ&ab_channel=DocumentaryArchive Cuba Archive. (2016). Case Record - Alejandro del Valle Martí. Available at: http://database.cubaarchive.org/search/simple-search-view-case/2121/ Cuba Archive. (2016). Case Record - Ernesto Ibrahín Hernández Cosío. Available at: http://database.cubaarchive.org/search/simple-search-view-case/2555/ Cuba Archive. (2016). Case Record - Jesús Vilarchao Quintana. Available at: http://database.cubaarchive.org/search/simple-search-view-case/2677/ Cuba Archive. (2016). Case Record - Jorge García Villalta y Espinosa. Available at: http://database.cubaarchive.org/search/simple-search-view-case/2675/ Cuba Archive. (2016). Case Record - José García Montes y Angulo. Available at: http://database.cubaarchive.org/search/simple-search-view-case/2695/ Cuba Archive. (2016). Case Record - Julio Caballero González. Available at: http://database.cubaarchive.org/search/simple-search-view-case/2694 Cuba Archive. (2016). Case Record - Manuel J. García Rosales. Available at: http://database.cubaarchive.org/search/simple-search-view-case/2344/ Cuba Archive. (2016). Case Record - Marco Tulio García Turino. Available at: http://database.cubaarchive.org/search/simple-search-view-case/2679/ Cuba Archive. (2016). Case Record - Raúl García Menocal Fowler. Available at: http://database.cubaarchive.org/search/simple-search-view-case/2680/ Cuba Archive. (2016). Case Record - Rubén Vera Ortíz. Available at: http://database.cubaarchive.org/search/simple-search-view-case/2676/ Cueto, J.C. et al. (2021). ‘How the Bay of Pigs invasion began - and failed - 60 years on’, BBC News, 23 April. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56808455 Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2021). ‘Cold War’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/event/Cold-War Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2021). ‘Fidel Castro’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fidel-Castro ‘Fidel Castro: Dodging exploding seashells, poison pens and ex-lovers’. (2016). BBC News, 27 November. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-38121583 History.com editors. (2020). ‘Bay of Pigs Invasion’, History, 30 March. Available at: https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion History.com editors. (2021). ‘The Bay of Pigs Invasion Begins’, History, 16 April. Available at: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion-begins John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. (n.d.). The Bay of Pigs. Available at: https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/the-bay-of-pigs Newcott, B. (2021). ‘After 60 years, Bay of Pigs disaster still haunts veterans who fought’, National Geographic, 16 April. Available at: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/bay-of-pigs-disaster-still-haunts-veterans-who-faught-60th-anniversary Pruitt, S. (2021). ‘5 Things You Might Not Know About the Bay of Pigs Invasion’, History, 15 March. Available at: https://www.history.com/news/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-the-bay-of-pigs-invasion Serena, K. (2018). ‘In 1994, The U.S. Military Actually Considered Building A “Gay Bomb”’, All That’s Interesting, 2 February. Available at: https://allthatsinteresting.com/gay-bomb ‘2 Bay of Pigs Survivors Tell of Cannibalism to Stay Alive’. (1998). Chicago Tribune, 16 April. Available at: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-04-16-9804170096-story.html#:~:text=2%20BAY%20OF%20PIGS%20SURVIVORS%20TELL%20OF%20CANNIBALISM%20TO%20STAY%20ALIVE,-CHICAGO%20TRIBUNE&text=Desperate%20to%20survive%2016%20days,of%20Pigs%20invasion%20of%20Cuba United States. Department of State. (n.d.). The Bay of Pigs Invasion and its Aftermath, April 1961–October 1962. Available at: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/bay-of-pigs White, M. (2011). ‘Bay of Pigs invasion: Kennedy’s Cuban catastrophe’, BBC History Extra, May. Available at: https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/bay-of-pigs-invasion-kennedys-cuban-catastrophe/

  • Alix shares a shipwreck story with one hell of a plot twist in today's episode on the Invercauld.Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find it on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shopTRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/12/30/s3-e10-sea-part-ii---the-invercauld/CREDITSWith thanks to Emily for transcription help.Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.BIBLIOGRAPHYAberdeen City Council. (2018). Invercauld. Available at: http://www.aberdeenships.com/single.asp?offset=1350&index=110961 Allen, M.F. (1997). Wake of the Invercauld. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.‘Auckland Islands helicopter crash: Survivors reveal sheer panic, then night on island’. (2019). New Zealand Herald, 26 April. Available at: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-islands-helicopter-crash-survivors-reveal-sheer-panic-then-night-on-island/LFK5Q5CLP23LYOTE4TQIMS2TTQ/ Craighead, L. (2012). ‘Moral strength and ingenuity vs despair and cannibalism’. Review of Island of the Lost, by Joan Druett. National Business Review, 27 July. Available at: https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/island-lost-shipwrecked-edge-world-joan-druett-weekend-review-ja-124562 Druett, J. (2007). Island of the Lost. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books.Eden, A.W. (1955). ‘The Wrecks of the Invercauld and the Compadre’, in Islands of Despair. London: Andrew Melrose, pp. 62-69. Available at: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-EdeIsla-t1-body-d7.htmlGibbs, M. (2003). ‘The Archaeology of Crisis: Shipwreck Survivor Camps in Australasia’, Historical Archaeology, 37(1), pp. 128-145. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25617048 ‘Invercauld’. (n.d.). New Zealand Bound. Available at: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/invercauld.htm ‘Invercauld (Ship)’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invercauld_(ship) Jackson, B. (2019). ‘Auckland Islands helicopter pilot recalls violent crash’, Stuff, 26 April. Available at: https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/112269190/auckland-islands-helicopter-crash-survivors-reunited Lubans, J. (2010). ‘Shipwrecks & Leadership’, Leading from the Middle, 17 August. Available at: https://blog.lubans.org/index.php?itemid=139 Pdpeacock. (2012). ‘Leadership is Essential for Group Survival’, Wilderness Innovation, 12 January. Available at: https://wildernessinnovation.com/2012/01/12/leadership-is-essential-for-group-survival/ Peterson, D. (2015). ‘Can you tame the Black Swan?’, The Community Banker, 4(3), pp. 12-13. Available at: https://vacb-community-banker.thenewslinkgroup.org/flippingbooks/Pub4-2015-Issue3/12/ Quinet, A. (1882). François Edouard Raynal. Available at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8450673d/f1.item Rowe, D. (2021). ‘A Tale of Two Shipwrecks’, New Zealand Geographic, 167. Available at: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/a-tale-of-two-shipwrecks/ Scadden, K. (2006). ‘Castaways’, in Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Available at: https://teara.govt.nz/mi/castaways/print Smith, A. (1866). The Castaways. Aberdeen: A. Brown and Co. Available at: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-921072453/view?partId=nla.obj-921075176#page/n0/mode/1up Spence, E.L. (2017). Shipwrecks of May 11. Available at: https://shipwrecks.com/shipwrecks-of-may-11/ ‘The Ship Invercauld’. (n.d.). Dartmoor Trust. Available at: https://dartmoortrust.org/archive/record/107230?redirected=trueWood, D.E. (2009). ‘Cardiothoracic surgery: a specialty divided or as one’, The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 137(1), pp. 1-9. Available at: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/81200184.pdf

  • This week, we look at Vietnamese ‘boat people’ and the Boliano 52 – a group of refugees left without aid in the South China Sea.Disclaimer: This episode was recorded prior to the announcement in December 2021 of an amendment to the Nationality and Borders Bill to provide the RNLI with legal protection in the case of rescuing refugees at sea. However, we feel the sentiments expressed in this episode surrounding the bill still merit inclusion.TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/12/23/s3-e9-sea-part-i---the-bolinao-52/CREDITSWritten, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.BIBLIOGRAPHYAssociated Press. (2008). ‘Dominican migrant: We ate flesh to survive’, NBC News, 4 November. Available at: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27531105 Associated Press. (2008). Migrants Turn to Cannibalism to Survive. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh8cwHd-WtM&ab_channel=AssociatedPress BBC Newsnight. (2015). Left at sea, reduced to cannibalism - Newsnight. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ2jMXvr96c&ab_channel=BBCNewsnightConstantine, N. (2018). A History of Cannibalism. London: Arcturus Publishing. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZFFyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT90 Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2015). ‘Boat people refugees’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/boat-people-refugees Fritsch, J. (1989). ‘Balian Guilty in Viet Boat Case, to Get Reprimand’, Los Angeles Times, 24 February. Available at: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-24-mn-266-story.html Fritsch, J. (1989). ‘‘I Killed to Help the Living’ : Cannibal or Savior: Viet Refugee Says He Was Both’, Los Angeles Times, 24 February. Available at: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-24-mn-267-story.html Gourevitch, P. (2015). ‘Search and Rescue’, New Yorker, 26 April. Available at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/search-and-rescue ‘Government minister ‘hopes’ cannibalism at sea no longer needed thanks to new technology’. (2021). Sky News, 22 June. Available at: https://news.sky.com/story/government-minister-hopes-cannibalism-at-sea-no-longer-needed-thanks-to-new-technology-12339438 Kamm, H. (1981). ‘A Vietnamese Orphan Tells of Killings and Cannibalism in 52-Day Sea Escare’, New York Times, 13 August. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/13/world/a-vietnamese-orphan-tells-of-killings-and-cannibalism-in-52-day-sea-escare.html KQED. (2008). Vietnamese American Journey: Bolinao 52. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqqIIOSTj2U&ab_channel=KQEDLiu, S. (2015). ‘Duc Nguyen, Boat Person Refugee and Documentary Filmmaker of Bolinao 52 (2007) and Stateless (2015)’, Break the Silence. Available at: https://soundcloud.com/breakthesilence_uci/ducs-interview-copy Los Angeles Times. (1988). ‘Cannibalism on the High Seas Vietnamese Watched the Killing Begin With His Friend, Cousin’, Orlando Sentinel, 13 November. Available at: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1988-11-13-0080230074-story.html Lung, H. (2006). Lost Fighting Arts of Vietnam. New York, NY: Citadel Press. Available at: https://archive.org/stream/lost_fighting_arts_of_vietnam/lost_fighting_arts_of_vietnam_djvu.txt McKenzie, S. (2000). ‘Vietnam's boat people: 25 years of fears, hopes and dreams’, CNN. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20030405185711/http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/vietnam/story/boat.people/ Nguyen Mang, T. (2021). Vietnamese Boat People. Available at: https://www.vietnameseboatpeople.org/‘Officer’s action probed.’ (1988). New Castle News, 11 August, p. 1. Available at: https://newspaperarchive.com/new-castle-news-aug-11-1988-p-1/ Quang, T. et al. (2009). ‘Boat People ‘Ate Their Relatives’’, Radio Free Asia, 11 May. Available at: https://www.rfa.org/english/women/food-05112009123100.html Richburg, K.B. (1988). ‘Vietnamese Refugees Report Cannibalism on Voyage’, Washington Post, 10 August. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/08/10/vietnamese-refugees-report-cannibalism-on-voyage/a914a8c6-b50a-434c-adda-ac93dff1eef2/ Right Here in My Pocket. (n.d.). Bolinao 52 Story. Available at: https://www.rhimp.com/bolinao52/story.html Right Here in My Pocket. (2007). Bolinao 52 Trailer. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcUFFaWoydQ&ab_channel=RightHereinMyPocketSuarez, M. (1989). ‘U.S. Captain Convicted In Cannibalism Case, Given Reprimand’, AP News, 24 February. Available at: https://apnews.com/article/3f237384445ccad8fd5da3d045e637cc Swain, J. (1988). ‘Cannibalism: the chilling secret of lost boat people’, Sunday Times, 20 November. Available at: http://www.jonswain.org/articles/articles/articles/article1.html‘Vietnamese boat people’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_boat_people ‘Vietnamese boat people under investigation for cannibalism’. (1988). UPI, 9 August. Available at: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/08/09/Vietnamese-boat-people-under-investigation-for-cannibalism/5712587102400/ ‘Vietnamese refugees forced to cannibalism for survival’. (1987). UPI, 12 August. Available at: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/08/12/Vietnamese-refugees-forced-to-cannibalism-for-survival/8126555739200/

  • What connects survival cannibalism and the house of Romanov? The answer is, of course, the Battle of Moscow of 1612.TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/12/16/s3-e8-ice-part-ii---the-polish-muscovite-war/CREDITSWritten, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.BIBLIOGRAPHY‘Battle of Moscow (1612).’ (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow_(1612) Bond, J. et al. (2010). ‘Cannibalism in medieval europe/asia’. 7 September. Total War Centre. Available at: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?387622-cannibalism-in-medieval-europe-asia Cavendish, R. (2013). ‘The First of the Romanov Tsars is Crowned’, History Today, 63(7). Available at: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/first-romanov-tsars-crowned Doultseva, T. et al. (2020). To the younger generation living abroad about the heroic feat of the Defenders of the Russian Land: from the Battle of the Neva to the Capture of Berlin. Jyväskylä: Mosaiikki. Available at: http://mosaiikki.info/history/books/bookEng/HistoryEng.pdfIstmira. (n.d.). Second people's militia-briefly. Available at: https://www.istmira.com/w-hist/history-of-russia/3943-second-peoples-militia-briefly.html Kluchevsky, V.O. (1913). A History of Russia. Vol. 3. Translated by C.J. Hogarth. London: J.M. Dent. Available at: http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/dmeier/A%20History%20of%20Russia,%20Volume%203,%20V.O.%20Kliuchevsky.pdfKP-TTS. (2020). The last days of Poles in the Kremlin. Battle of the Great Field Exile Polish Interventory in 1612. Available at: https://kp-tts.ru/en/iii-poslednie-dni-polyakov-v-kremle-bitva-na-devichem-pole-izgnanie-polskih.html Malloy, D. (2017). Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Original Broadway Cast Recording). New York: I Hear Guitars. Available at: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Ohwm7WsUS6AJd56VnNlJX?si=hgF6vljGQMS5ecYBjCL-ww ‘Polish–Lithuanian occupation of Moscow’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_occupation_of_Moscow ‘Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Muscovite_War_(1605%E2%80%931618) Shubin, D.H. (2009). ‘The Era of Tsar Boris Feodorovich Godunov’, in Tsars and Imposters. New York, NY: Algora, pp. 57-78.Thompson, J.M. (2012). ‘Ivan the Terrible and the Time of Troubles’, in Russia and the Soviet Union. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.Tucker, S.C. (ed.) (2010). ‘Eastern Europe: Polish-Russian War (Continued)’, in A Global Chronology of Conflict. Vol. 2. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, p. 564. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC&pg=PA564&lpg=PA564#v=onepage&q&f=false Woźnica, K. (2016). ‘Famine and poverty in the army during the reign of the House of Vasa in the light of reports and diaries’, Historia i Świat, 5, pp. 169-190. Available at: https://repozytorium.uph.edu.pl/bitstream/handle/11331/2412/Famine_and_poverty_in_the_army.pdf?sequence=1

  • This week, we join Yermak Timofeyevich and his band of Cossacks in a chilly adventure across the Ural Mountains and into Siberia.

    TRANSCRIPT

    https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/12/09/s3-e7-ice-part-i---yermak-timofeyevich/

    CREDITS

    Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

    Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

    Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

    Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    ‘Conquest of the Khanate of Sibir’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_the_Khanate_of_Sibir

    Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2012). ‘Yermak Timofeyevich’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yermak-Timofeyevich

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  • Howdy! This week, we’re headed west – the Wild West, to be exact. Featuring characters such as Liver Eating Johnson, the Blues Brothers, Big Phil, and Uncle Dick Wootton, Alix takes us on a quick tour of survival cannibalism on the American frontier.TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/12/02/s3-e6-land-part-vi---the-best-of-the-rest-of-the-wild-west/CREDITSWritten, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.BIBLIOGRAPHYThe Blues Brothers. (1980). [DVD]. Directed by John Landis. United States: Universal Pictures.‘Boone Helm’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boone_Helm Coel, M. (2012). ‘The Indian…’, in Chief Left Hand. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 94-109. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ptNcTmQ5RpEC&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false Edwards, E. (2012). ‘Cannibals in the Family’, in Early Reagan. Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, pp. 30-31. Available at: http://www.ibiblio.org/sullivan/CNN/RWR/Anecdotes/aneccannib.html Gregory, H. The Belle and Boone Helm. (2021). Directed by Caitlin McWethy. [Cincinnati Fringe Festival, 4-19 June].Hafen, L.R. (1936). ‘Mountain Men – Big Phil, the Cannibal’, Colorado Magazine, 13(2), pp. 53-58. Available at: https://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2018/ColoradoMagazine_v13n2_March1936.pdf Haward Bain, D. (2000). ‘Manifest Density’. Review of A Newer World by David Roberts. New York Times, 27 February. Available at: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/reviews/000227.27bainlt.htmlHernandez, A. (2019). ‘‘Big Phil’ the Colorado Cannibal’, Denver Public Library Research News, 31 December. Available at: https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/big-phil-colorado-cannibal Holzwarth, L. (2019). ‘Episodes of Cannibalism throughout History’, History Collection, 13 October. Available at: https://historycollection.com/episodes-of-cannibalism-throughout-history/15/ Idaho State Historical Society. (1993). Site of Utter Party Massacre. Reference Series, no. 233. Available at: https://history.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/0233.pdf ‘John C. Frémont: Death of the Aged Soldier and Explorer at New York.’ (1890). Daily Alta California, 83(14), p. 5. Available at: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18900714.2.41&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 ‘John C. Frémont’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Fr%C3%A9mont Kuroski, J. (2021). ‘They Killed His Wife And Burned Down His House – Then Liver-Eating Johnson Hunted Them Down And Ate Them’, All That’s Interesting, 1 October. Available at: https://allthatsinteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson Langford, N.P. (1912). Vigilante days and ways; the pioneers of the Rockies; the makers and making of Montana and Idaho. Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg & co. Available at: https://archive.org/details/vigilantedaysan00unkngoog Lawrence, D. and J. Lawrence. (2012). ‘Indians, Emigrants, and the Army on the Overland Trails: An Interview with Michael Tate’, in Violent Encounters. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 75-98. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vm21xq3f01oC&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94#v=onepage&q&f=false ‘Levi Boone Helm (1828 - 1864)’. (n.d.). WikiTree. Available at: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Helm-1612 McArthur, S. (2012). ‘Indians and Armies’, in The Enemy Never Came. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 87-102. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7AhrH9yu7oMC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false McLaughlin, M. (2008). ‘Cannibals in the West’, Journal of Sierra Nevada History & Biography, 27 October. Available at: https://www.sierracollege.edu/ejournals/jsnhb/v6n2/cannibals.htmlMoulton, C. (2010). ‘Dreams of Gold on the Starvation Trail’, True West, 26 June. Available at: https://truewestmagazine.com/dreams-of-gold-on-the-starvation-trail/ Online Highways. (n.d.). John C. Frémont. Available at: https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h714.html Palmquist, P.E. and T.R. Kailborn. (2000). ‘John C. Frémont’, in Pioneer Photographers of the Far West. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 247-251. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Nne4L9h27RsC&pg=PA247#v=onepage&q&f=false Rea, T. (2004). ‘The Pathfinder’s Lost Instruments: John C. Frémont’s Cavalier Attitude Toward His Scientific Apparatus’, Common Place, 4(4). Available at: http://commonplace.online/article/the-pathfinders-lost-instruments/ Roberts, D. (2000). A Newer World. London: Simon & Schuster.Silbernagel, B. (2020). ‘Disaster struck when ‘The Pathfinder’ got lost in Colorado’, Daily Sentinel, 28 December. 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  • For as long as humans have existed, we have been eating other humans. This week, Carmella takes us on a tour of six Stone Age sites where evidence of survival cannibalism has been uncovered.TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/11/25/s3-e5-land-part-v---prehistoric-cannibalism-101/CREDITSWritten, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.BIBLIOGRAPHYAFP News Agency. (2016). Belgium's Goyet caves prove Neanderthals were cannibals. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq-yZy1S12w&ab_channel=AFPNewsAgency Andrews, P. and Y. Fernández-Jalvo. (2003). ‘Cannibalism in Britain: Taphonomy of the Creswellian (Pleistocene) faunal and human remains from Gough's Cave (Somerset, England)’, Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Geology Series, 58(S1), pp. 59-81. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yolanda-Fernandez-Jalvo/publication/253650169_2003_Cannibalism_in_Britain_-_Andrews_y_Fernandez/links/0046351fa32b97ed28000000/2003-Cannibalism-in-Britain-Andrews-y-Fernandez.pdf Bello, M. et al. (2017). ‘An Upper Palaeolithic engraved human bone associated with ritualistic cannibalism’, PLOS One, 12(8). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182127 Bowdler, N. (2010). ‘Neanderthal family found cannibalised in cave in Spain’, BBC News, 21 December. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12049854 Cannibalism: Secrets Revealed. (2007). History, 24 April. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I95evV1eYqQ&ab_channel=DocumentaryArchiveCarbonell, E. (2010). ‘Cultural Cannibalism as a Paleoeconomic System in the European Lower Pleistocene’, Current Anthropology, 51(4), pp. 539-549. Available at: https://cir.cenieh.es/bitstream/20.500.12136/562/1/Cultural%20Cannibalism%20as%20a%20Paleoeconomic%20System%20in%20the%20European%20Lower%20Pleistocene_Carbonell_et_al_2010.pdf ‘Cheddar Gorge: a unique view’. (2021). Great British Life, 27 January. Available at: https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/homes-and-gardens/places-to-live/cheddar-gorge-a-unique-view-6994464 Cole, J. (2017). ‘Assessing the calorific significance of episodes of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic’, Scientific Reports, 7, 44707. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44707 Defleur, A. and E. Desclaux. (2019). ‘Impact of the last interglacial climate change on ecosystems and Neanderthals behavior at Baume Moula-Guercy, Ardèche, France’, Journal of Archaeological Science, 104, pp. 114-124. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.01.002 Fernández-Jalvo, Y. (1999). ‘Human cannibalism in the Early Pleistocene of Europe (Gran Dolina, Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)’, Journal of Human Evolution, 37(3-4), pp. 591-622. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004724849990324X Hendry, L. (n.d.). The cannibals of Gough’s Cave. Available at: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-cannibals-of-goughs-cave.html Keenan, E. M. (2014). A Tale of Three Caves: Faunal Contextualisation of Mixed Human and Animal Assemblages from the Yorkshire Dales. MSc Dissertation. University of York. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/9000598/A_Tale_of_Three_Caves_Faunal_Contextualisation_of_Mixed_Human_and_Animal_Assemblages_from_the_Yorkshire_Dales_unpublished_MSc_dissertation_ Kris Hurst, K. (2018). ‘El Sidrón, 50,000 Year Old Neanderthal Site’, Thought Co., 6 June. Available at: https://www.thoughtco.com/el-sidron-evidence-for-neanderthal-cannibalism-172640 Lewis, D. (2019). ‘Why Neanderthals turned to cannibalism’, Cosmos, 28 March. Available at: https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/warm-weather-pushed-neanderthals-into-cannibalism/ Lukaschek, K. (2001). The History of Cannibalism. MPhil Thesis. University of Cambridge. Available at: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.120.4404&rep=rep1&type=pdf McKie, R. (2010). ‘Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age’, Observer, 20 June. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/jun/20/ice-age-cannibals-britain-earliest-settlers ‘Neanderthals were cannibals’. (1999). BBC News, 1 October. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/462048.stm ‘Prehistory’. (2013). Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available at: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/prehistory ‘Prehistory’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory Schmitt, C. (2017). Cheddar Man. Available at: https://ccschmitt.github.io/Cheddar%20Man.html Smith, K. N. (2019). ‘Neanderthal cannibalism is less surprising than you think’, Ars Technica, 31 March. Available at: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/climate-change-may-have-driven-a-band-of-neanderthals-to-cannibalism/ Rosas, A. et al. (2006). ‘Paleobiology and comparative morphology of a late Neandertal sample from El Sidrón, Asturias, Spain’, PNAS, 103(51), pp. 19266-19271. Available at: https://www.pnas.org/content/103/51/19266 Rougier, H. et al. (2016). ‘Neandertal cannibalism and Neandertal bones used as tools in Northern Europe’, Scientific Reports, 6, 29005. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29005 Saladié, P. and A. Rodríguez-Hidalgo. (2017). ‘Archaeological Evidence for Cannibalism in Prehistoric Western Europe: from Homo antecessor to the Bronze Age’, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 24, pp. 1034-1071. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-016-9306-y Saladié, P. et al. (2012). ‘Intergroup cannibalism in the European Early Pleistocene: the range expansion and imbalance of power hypotheses’, Journal of Human Evolution, 63(5), pp. 682-695. Available at: https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/27075/1/1-s2.0-S0047248412001406-main-01.pdf Sheldon, N. (2018). ‘Dining on the Dead: The Cannibals of Cheddar Gorge’, History Collection, 17 September. Available at: https://historycollection.com/dining-on-the-dead-the-cannibals-of-cheddar-gorge/ Valensi, P., E. Crégut-Bonnoure and A. Defleur. (2012). ‘Archaeozoological data from the Mousterian level from Moula-Guercy (Ardèche, France) bearing cannibalised Neanderthal remains’, Quaternary International, 252, pp. 48-55. 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  • Another week, another famine. This episode, Alix looks at a modern case of famine-induced survival cannibalism in North Korea.TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/11/18/s3-e4-land-part-iv---the-arduous-march/CREDITSWritten, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.BIBLIOGRAPHYAbad-Santos, A. (2013). ‘North Koreans Reportedly Turn to Cannibalism Due to 'Hidden Famine'’, The Altantic, 28 January. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/north-koreans-reportedly-turn-cannibalism-due-hidden-famine/319002/Amnesty International. (2019). North Korea. Available at: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/north-korea AP News. (1998). ‘Cannibalism Reported in North Korea’, 15 April. Available at: https://apnews.com/article/91eb6e8608b6112887f498d971dde245 Asia News. (2013). ‘Rumors of cannibalism in North Korea, crushed by famine’, Asia News, 28 January. Available at: http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Rumors-of-cannibalism-in-North-Korea,-crushed-by-famine-26978.htmlAssociated Press. (1993). ‘Defector Cites Growing Unrest in North Korea’, August 24.BBC News. (2021). ‘Kim Jong-un warns of North Korea crisis similar to deadly 90s famine’, 9 April. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56685356 Cho, J. et al. (2013). White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea. Seoul: Korea Institute for National Unification. Available at: https://www.kinu.or.kr/pyxis-api/1/digital-files/3aee4b98-d429-46d0-b040-eacfb69d968c Collins, R. (2018). Denied from the start Human Rights at the Local Level in North Korea. Washington, DC: Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Available at: https://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/Collins_Denied_FINALFINALFINAL_WEB.pdf Columbia University Press. (n.d.) Famine in North Korea. Available at: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/famine-in-north-korea/9780231140003 Connect North Korea. (2021). Who we are. Available at: https://connectnorthkorea.org/who-we-are/ DisaFear. (2011). ‘Cannibalism in North Korea’, ATARNotes, 25 June. Available at: https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=123422.0;wap2 Evans, B. (2013). ‘North Korean parents 'eating their own children' after being driven mad by hunger in famine-hit pariah state’, Daily Mail, 27 January. Available at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269094/North-Korean-parents-eat-children-driven-mad-hunger-famine-hit-pariah-state.htmlFahy, S. (2012). ‘Mapping a hidden disaster’, Natural Hazards Observer, September, pp. 22-27. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20161128195312/https://hazdoc.colorado.edu/bitstream/handle/10590/5438/C024508.pdf?sequence=1 Fisher, M. (2013). ‘The Cannibals of North Korea’, Washington Post, 5 February. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/02/05/the-cannibals-of-north-korea/ Howard-Hassmann, R. E. (2012). ‘State-Induced Famine and Penal Starvation in North Korea’, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 7(2), pp. 147-165. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol7/iss2/3/ Hughes, C. (2013). ‘Inside North Korea: Shock video and photos show true horror of Kim Jong-un's evil regime’, Mirror, 12 April. Available at: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/inside-north-korea-video-photos-1826234Irish Times. (1997). ‘Cannibalism in Korea, say exiles’, 2 October. Available at: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/cannibalism-in-korea-say-exiles-1.111938 Jackson, S. (2017). ‘Pleased to EAT you: World map of man-eaters reveals where cannibalism STILL exists today’, Daily Star, 14 February. Available at: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/cannibals-north-korea-kim-jong-16984291Kim, J. (2013). The family I lost in North Korea. And the family I gained. Available at: https://www.ted.com/talks/joseph_kim_the_family_i_lost_in_north_korea_and_the_family_i_gained Kim, J. (2015). ‘Desperate times during the famine in North Korea’, TED Ideas, 3 June. Available at: https://ideas.ted.com/desperate-times-during-the-famine-in-north-korea/ Kim, J. (2016). Under the Same Sky. Boston, MA: Mariner Books.Koo, S. (2014). ‘A Brief Note on the History of Korean Cannibalism’, Korea Exposée, 30 September. Available at: https://www.koreaexpose.com/why-south-koreans-crave-human-flesh/Lallanilla, M. (2013). ‘Cannibalism Reported in Famine-Stricken North Korea’, Live Science, 29 January. Available at: https://www.livescience.com/26677-north-korea-cannibalism.html Lee, J. (2021). ‘North Korea Says It’s Facing Worst Food Shortage in Decade’, Bloomberg, 14 July. Available at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-14/north-korea-says-it-s-facing-worst-food-shortage-in-decade Liberty in North Korea. (n.d.) About Us. Available at: https://www.libertyinnorthkorea.org/aboutus Minnesota Daily. (1998). ‘French aid workers report cannibalism in famine-stricken North Korea’, 16 April. Available at: https://mndaily.com/216195/uncategorized/french-aid-workers-report-cannibalism-famine-stricken-north-korea/ Namgung, J. (2019). ‘The Face of Famine in North Korea: Blindness, Cannibalism, and a Desire to Escape’, The Science Survey, 23 November. Available at: https://thesciencesurvey.com/news/2019/11/23/the-face-of-famine-in-north-korea-blindness-cannibalism-escape/Nelson, S. C. (2013). ‘North Korea Cannibalism Fears Amid Reports Famine-Stricken Citizens 'Forced To Dig Up Corpses & Eat Their Children'’, Huffington Post, 28 January. Available at: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/28/north-korea-cannibalism-north-korea-cannibalism-famine-corpses-eat-_n_2565100.html Nicol, M. (2003). ‘Famine-struck N Koreans 'eating children'’, Telegraph, 8 June. Available at: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/1432366/Famine-struck-N-Koreans-eating-children.html Nolan, M. and S. Haggard. (2007). Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform. Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics. Available at: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/92548/ ‘North Korean famine’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine Rice, S. and D. Knaute. (2012). The Death Penalty in North Korea. Paris: International Federation for Human Rights. Available at: https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/en-report-northkorea-high-resolution.pdf Rigoulot, P. (1999). ‘Crimes, Terror, and Secrecy in North Korea’, in The Black Book of Communism. Harvard: Harvard University Press.Ryall, J. (2012). ‘North Korea 'executes three people found guilty of cannibalism'’, Telegraph, 11 May. Available at: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9259043/North-Korea-executes-three-people-found-guilty-of-cannibalism.html Shout Out UK. (2017). Cannibalism in North Korea: Beyond The Headlines. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgat_PU2yhYSon, S. A. et al. (2019). Mapping the Fate of the Dead: Killings and Burials in North Korea. Seoul: Transitional Justice Working Group. Available at: https://en.tjwg.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-Report-Mapping-the-Fate-of-the-Dead-Killings-and-Burials-in-North-Korea.pdf Tarquinio, J. A. (2018). ‘Defector says North Korean regime turned its people into cannibals’, New York Post, 7 July. Available at: https://nypost.com/2018/07/07/defector-says-north-korean-regime-turned-its-people-into-cannibals/USA Today. (2013). ‘20 facts about North Korea’, 13 April. 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  • It's 1527 and a Spanish expedition to Florida are on the hunt for safe harbour, immense riches, and somewhere to put all their horses. This is the story of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Narváez Expedition.


    TRANSCRIPT

    https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/11/11/s3-e3-land-part-iii---the-narvaez-expedition/

    CREDITS

    Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

    Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

    Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

    Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Cabeza de Vaca, A. N. (2002). Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition. Translated by F. Bandelier. London: Penguin.

    ‘Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez (1492?-1559?)’. (2021). Encyclopedia.com. Available at: https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/alvar-nunez-cabeza-de-vaca

    Chipman, D. (2017). ‘Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez (ca. 1490–ca. 1559)’, Handbook of Texas, 28 July. Available at: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/cabeza-de-vaca-lvar-nunez

    Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2021). ‘Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alvar-Nunez-Cabeza-de-Vaca

    Florida Center for Instructional Technology. (2002). The Misadventures of Pánfilo de Narváez and Nuñez de Cabeza de Vaca. Available at: http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/narvaez/narvaez1.htm

    Jáuregui, C. A. (2016). ‘Going native, going home. Ethnographic empathy and the artifice of return in Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación’, Colonial Latin American Review, 25(2), pp. 175-199. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos-Jauregui/publication/308096650_Going_native_going_home_Ethnographic_empathy_and_the_artifice_of_return_in_Cabeza_de_Vaca%27s_Relacion/links/5b79a3024585151fd1208561/Going-native-going-home-Ethnographic-empathy-and-the-artifice-of-return-in-Cabeza-de-Vacas-Relacion.pdf

    Schnelle, R. (2001). ‘Soul-struck Soldier: Stepping Westward with Cabeza de Vaca’, Weber Studies, 19, pp. 74-81. Available at: https://weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/archive%20C%20Vol.%2016.2-18.1/Vol.%2019.1/Schnelle.htm

  • This week, Alix takes us on a tour of famine in Irish history, culminating in the infamous 19th century potato famine.


    TRANSCRIPT

    https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/11/04/s3-e2-land-part-ii---the-irish-potato-famine/

    CREDITS

    Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

    Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

    Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

    Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Brantlinger, P. (2004). ‘The Famine’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 32(1), pp. 193-207. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25058660?seq=1

    Carmody, P. (2009). ‘The story of starvation’, Irish Times, 30 May. Available at: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/the-story-of-starvation-1.774061

    Connolly, J. (1997). ‘An Irishman's Diary’, Irish Times, 23 September. Available at: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary-1.108966

    Coogan, T. P. (2013). The Famine Plot. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Griffin.

    Coste, M. (2020). ‘New RTE documentary finds evidence of cannibalism in Ireland during Great Famine’, Clé, 1 December. Available at: http://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/key-story/01-12-20-great-famine-cannibalism

    Dwyer, F. (2016). ‘A Famine Cover Up. Cannibalism in 1849…’, Irish History Podcast, 22 February. Available at: https://irishhistorypodcast.ie/a-famine-cover-up-cannibalism-in-1849/

    ElleHaceElle. (2017). ‘Irish Famine and Cannibalism’, Breise! Breise! Extra! Extra!, 21 June. Available at: https://breisebreiseleighgoleire1969.wordpress.com/tag/did-the-irish-resort-to-cannibalism-during-the-famine/

    Geography Department, University College Cork and Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. (n.d.). The Great Irish Famine Online. Available at: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=8de2b863f4454cbf93387dacb5cb8412

    Great Britain. UK Parliament. (n.d.). The Great Famine. Available at: https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/parliamentandireland/overview/the-great-famine/

    ‘Irish Famine (1740–1741)’ (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Famine_(1740%E2%80%9341)

    McGreevy, R. (2020). ‘Role of ‘survivor cannibalism’ during Great Famine detailed in new TV documentary’, Irish Times, 30 November. Available at: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/role-of-survivor-cannibalism-during-great-famine-detailed-in-new-tv-documentary-1.4423323

    Marx, K. (1999). ‘Chapter Twenty-Five: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation’ in Capital, Vol. 1. N.p.: Marxists Internet Archive. Available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm

    O’Brien, S. (2020). ‘Great Hunger documentary explores how Irish people turned to survivor cannibalism’, Irish Central, 30 November. Available at: https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/great-hunger-documentary-irish-people-cannibalism

    Ó Gráda, C. (2013). Eating people is wrong: Famine's darkest secret?. UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP13/02. Dublin: UCD School of Economics. Available at: https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/72202

    O’Sullivan, M. (2018). ‘Possible Cannibalism in Connemara during the Great Famine’, History at Galway, 3 February. Available at: https://historyatgalway.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/possible-cannibalism-in-connemara-during-the-great-famine/

    Persaud, R. (2011). ‘It's Not Everyone's Idea Of A Wholesome Meal, But Over The Ages Human Flesh Has Been Eaten By Surprisingly Large Numbers Of People’, Independent, 23 October. Available at: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/history-common-cannibal-it-s-not-everyone-s-idea-wholesome-meal-over-ages-human-flesh-has-been-eaten-surprisingly-large-numbers-people-raj-persaud-reports-2322199.html

    Stromberg, J. (2013). ‘Scientists Finally Pinpoint the Pathogen That Caused the Irish Potato Famine’, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May. Available at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-finally-pinpoint-the-pathogen-that-caused-the-irish-potato-famine-71084770/

    Swift, J. (2019). A Modest Proposal. Urbana, IL: Project Gutenberg. Available at: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm
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    ‘Was cannibalism practiced during the Irish famine?’ (2012). Irish Central, 15 May. Available at: https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/cannibalism-irish-famine-great-hunger-history