Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis
Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast
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Join hosts Alix and Carmella in a new podcast on the true history of survival cannibalism.Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast will be launching 31 October 2019.------------------------------CREDITSWritten, hosted and produced b
Why shouldn’t you take an untested shortcut on the California trail? In our first episode, we sink our teeth into the story of the Donner Party: the most infamous case of survival cannibalism in American history.TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglots
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.Did y
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 h
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 st
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
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.Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://w
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 th
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.TRANSCRIPThttps://c
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 produce
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
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/p
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/CastingLotsPo
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://castingl
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 Nationalit
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, hoste
This week, we join Yermak Timofeyevich and his band of Cossacks in a chilly adventure across the Ural Mountains and into Siberia.TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/12/09/s3-e7-ice-part-i---yermak-timofeyevich/CREDITSWritten
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 fro
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
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, h
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.TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglots
This week, Alix takes us on a tour of famine in Irish history, culminating in the infamous 19th century potato famine. TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/11/04/s3-e2-land-part-ii---the-irish-potato-famine/CREDITSWritten, h
Kicking Season 3 off with a bang, Carmella and Alix are back with the ‘maneater of Macquarie Harbour’ – Alexander Pearce. TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/10/31/s3-e1-land-part-i-alexander-pearce/CREDITSWritten, hosted a
Coming 31 October 2021: Season 3 of Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast.Join Alix and Carmella for 13 new episodes of survival cannibalism across time and around the world.TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/10/17/sea
April Fool’s! We're back for another round of outtakes from Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast.TRANSCRIPThttps://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/04/01/season-2-outtakes/(opens in a new tab)CREDITSWritten, hosted and produced by
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