Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast

Casting Lots is now on YouTube! Subscribe to us now and get ready to re-listen to all your Season 1 favourites, including the Franklin Expedition, the Donner Party, the Whaleship Essex and the Raft of the Medusa… Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@castinglotspodcast Find out about Carmella's books here: UK - https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/286178/carmella-lowkis US - https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Carmella-Lowkis/201665927 TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2026/01/19/still-hungry/ CREDITS Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.  Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett. Logo by Ashley. Find her on Instagram @tallestfriend. Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

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 you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shop 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. Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shop 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.

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. Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shop 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. Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shop 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. Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shop 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. Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shop 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/shop TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/01/20/s3-e13-sea-part-v---more-fun-on-boats/ 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 Barcia, 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/shop TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/01/13/s3-e12-sea-part-iv---the-hms-wager/ CREDITS With 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. BIBLIOGRAPHY Byron, 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.pdf Stallings, 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/shop TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/01/06/s3-e11-sea-part-iii---the-bay-of-pigs/ 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 Alfonso, 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. 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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. 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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/shop TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/12/30/s3-e10-sea-part-ii---the-invercauld/ CREDITS With 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. BIBLIOGRAPHY Aberdeen 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.html Gibbs, 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=true Wood, 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. TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/12/23/s3-e9-sea-part-i---the-bolinao-52/ 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 Associated 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=BBCNewsnight Constantine, 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=KQED Liu, 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=RightHereinMyPocket Suarez, 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. TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/12/16/s3-e8-ice-part-ii---the-polish-muscovite-war/ 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 ‘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.pdf Istmira. (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.pdf KP-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 Armstrong, P.C.B. (1997). Foreigners, Furs And Faith: Muscovy's Expansion Into Western Siberia, 1581-1649. MA Thesis. Dalhousie University. Available at: https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq24794.pdf ‘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 Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2015). ‘Siberia’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/place/Siberia Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2020). ‘Cossack’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cossack Frazier, I. (2010). Travels in Siberia. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Landers, B. (2009). Empires Apart: A History of American and Russian Imperialism. New York, NY: Pegasus Books. Available at: https://archive.org/details/B-001-000-179/page/n113/mode/2up?q=yermack Manning, C.A. (1923). ‘Yermak Timofeyevich in Russian Folk Poetry’, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 43, pp. 206-215. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/593339.pdf Ostrowski, D. (2016). ‘Sibir’, Khanate of’, in MacKenzie, J.M. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Empire. Vol. 4. New York, NY: Wiley, pp. 1-3. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe190 Ratnikas, A. (n.d.). Timeline Siberia. Available at: http://timelines.ws/countries/SIBERIA.HTML Severin, T. (2014). The Man Who Won Siberia. Boston, MA: New Word City. Stépanoff, C. (2009). ‘Devouring Perspectives: On Cannibal Shamans in Siberia’, Inner Asia, 11(22), pp. 283-307. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23614964 Vajda, E.J. (2002). ‘The West Siberian Tatars’, EA210: East Asian Studies. Western Washington University. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20070703182348/http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/tatar.htm Volchek, D. (2021). ‘Conquest of the Khanate of Sibir’, Historystack. Available at: https://historystack.com/Conquest_of_the_Khanate_of_Sibir Yastrebov, Y.B. et al. (2021). ‘Ural Mountains’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/place/Ural-Mountains/Climate Yerokhin, I.Y. (2014). ‘History of the Cossacks – the story of contradictions’, Актуальные проблемы гуманитарных и естественных наук, (3-1), pp. 82-85. Available at: https://publikacia.net/archive/uploads/pages/2014_3_1/24.pdf ‘Yermak Timofeyevich’. (2019). Encyclopedia.com. Available at: https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/yermak-timofeyevich ‘Yermak Timofeyevich’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yermak_Timofeyevich ‘Yermak Timofeyevich, Conquest of Siberia’. (2020). Timeline Index. Available at: https://www.timelineindex.com/content/view/3705

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. TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/12/02/s3-e6-land-part-vi---the-best-of-the-rest-of-the-wild-west/ 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 The 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.html Hernandez, 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.html Moulton, 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. TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/11/25/s3-e5-land-part-v---prehistoric-cannibalism-101/ 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 AFP 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=DocumentaryArchive Carbonell, E. 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Another week, another famine. This episode, Alix looks at a modern case of famine-induced survival cannibalism in North Korea. TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/11/18/s3-e4-land-part-iv---the-arduous-march/ 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 Abad-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.html Associated 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.html Fahy, 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-1826234 Irish 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-16984291 Kim, 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. 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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