S1 E13. ICE PART IV – The Marten Hartwell Story

January 16, 2020November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

In our final episode of the season, we take to the Arctic skies for the Marten Hartwell story.

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

Connors, S.T. (1973). ‘Marten Hartwell Story’. Stompin’ Tom Connors. To It and at It. [Digital]. Ontario: Stompin’ Tom Ltd. Available at: https://open.spotify.com/track/7cmxWi6JlsvWWqawkklNXw
Crawford, B. (2019). ‘Fifteen Canadian Stories: The Epic Tale Of Marten Hartwell’s Arctic Survival’, Ottawa Citizen, 10 April. Available at: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/marten-hartwell-an-epic-tale-of-arctic-survival
Gein, E. and B. Marriner. (1997). Cannibalism: The Last Taboo!. Rickmansworth: Senate.
Goyette, L. (2010). Northern Kids. Victoria, BC: Brindle and Glass.
Metcalfe-Chenail, D. (2014). Polar Winds: A Century of Flying the North. Toronto: Dundurn.
New York Times. (1972). ‘Canadians Rescue Pilot of Plane Lost A Month in Arctic’, New York Times, 10 December, p.1. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/10/archives/canadians-rescue-pilot-of-plane-lost-a-month-in-arctic-canadians.html?_r=0
New York Times. (1973). ‘Bush Pilot Tells of Cannibalism’, New York Times, 2 March, p. 5. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/02/archives/bush-pilot-tells-of-cannibalism-stranded-in-arctic-he-had-eaten.html
Ottawa Citizen. (2018). Fifteen Canadian Stories: Marten Hartwell, Arctic Survivor. Available at: https://youtu.be/dhOslNyUaBE
Plimpton, G. (2004). As Told at the Explorers Club. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press.
Poling, J. (2007). Waking Nanabijou: Uncovering a Secret Past. Toronto: Dundurn.
Redish, L. and O. Lewis. (2007). ‘Setting the Record Straight About Native Languages: What Does “Eskimo” Mean In Cree?’, Native Languages of the Americas. Available at: http://www.native-languages.org/iaq23.htm
Register-Guard, Eugene. (1972). ‘Plane Crash Survivor Says Eskimo Boy ‘decided to die’’, Register-Guard, Eugene, 13 December, p. 7. Available at: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K6lVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9-ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6427%2C3261513
Sydney Morning Herald. (1972). ‘Crash Pilots 31 Day Arctic Ordeal’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 December, p.1. Available at: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cPljAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A-UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6168%2C4662318
Tadman, P. (1991). The Survivor. Hanna, AB: Gorman & Gorman.
Watts, A. (2012). From Eskimo Point to Alice Springs: Adventures in Nursing from the Arctic to the Outback. London: Simon and Schuster.

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S1 E12. ICE PART III – Douglas Mawson

January 9, 2020November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

This episode, we’re heading south for a story of Antarctic disaster. Did Sir Douglas Mawson’s 1911 expedition end in survival cannibalism? Carmella unravels the cold case in a tale of overland hauling, extreme rationing, and all the unpleasant things that can happen to sled dogs.

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

Chalmers, S. (2007). ‘The icecap cannibal’, Daily Mail, 27 Oct. Available at: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20071027/282235186299099
Day, D. (2013). Flaws in the Ice. London: Scribe.
Hurley, F. (c.1914-16). Tom Crean.jpg. Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Crean.jpg
Leane, E. and H. Tiffin. (2011). ‘Dogs, meat and Douglas Mawson’, Australian Humanities Review, 51. Available at: http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2011/11/01/dogs-meat-and-douglas-mawson/
PM. (2009). ABC Radio, 20 May. Available at: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2576375.htm
Shearman, D.J.C. (1978). ‘Vitamin A and Sir Douglas Mawson’, British Medical Journal, 1(6108), pp. 283-285. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1602734/
Taylor, G. (1959). ‘Obituary: Sir Douglas Mawson, O.B.E., F.R.S.’, Australian Geographer, 7(4), pp. 164-165. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00049185908702341
Yusoff, K. (2005). Arresting visions: a geographical theory of Antarctic light. PhD Thesis. Lancaster University. Available at: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/49392/
Yusoff, K. (2007). ‘Antarctic exposure: archives of the feeling body’, Cultural Geographies, 14(2), pp. 211-233. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1474474007075355

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S1 E11. ICE PART II – Adolphus Greely

January 2, 2020November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

‘Execution, mutiny, starvation, suicide and cannibalism’ – the story of Adolphus Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition has it all!

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

Greely, A. (1886). Three Years of Arctic Service: An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-1884 and the Attainment of Farthest North. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Available at: https://archive.org/details/threeyearsofarct00greeuoft/page/n6 and https://archive.org/details/threeyearsofarct02gree/page/n6
The Greely Expedition. (2019). PBS, 5 February. Available at: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/greely/
Guttridge, L.F. (2006). Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The harrowing true story of the Greely expedition. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.
Jampoler, A.C.A. (2010). ‘Disaster at Lady Franklin Bay’, Naval History Magazine, 24(4). Available at: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2010/august/disaster-lady-franklin-bay
Kershner, K. (2013). ‘10 True Stories of Survival Cannibalism’, HowStuffWorks.com, 30 May. Available at: https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/survival/wilderness/10-true-stories-survival-cannibalism8.htm
‘Lady Franklin Bay Expedition’. (2019). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Franklin_Bay_Expedition (Accessed 29 December 2019)
Miles, J. (2000). ‘”Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition” by Leonard F. Guttridge’, Salon, 21 January. Available at: https://www.salon.com/2000/01/21/guttridge/
National Museum of American History. (2011). ‘A mysterious fork leads to the story of the infamous Greely Expedition’, O Say Can You See?, 4 November. Available at: https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2011/11/greely_expedition.html
New York Times. (1884). ‘The shame of the nation’, New York Times, 13 August. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1884/08/13/archives/the-shame-of-the-nation-dreadful-sufferings-in-the-camp-at-cape.html
New York Times. (1884). ‘Crazed by starvation’, New York Times, 16 August. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1884/08/16/archives/crazed-by-starvation-another-chapter-in-the-awful-story-of-cape.html
New York Times. (1884). ‘Horrors of Cape Sabine’, New York Times, 12 August. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1884/08/12/archives/horrors-of-cape-sabine-terrible-story-of-greelys-dreary-camp-brave.html
United States Congress. War Department. (1884). The Proceedings of the “Proteus” Court of Inquiry on the Greely Relief Expedition of 1883. (Senate Ex. Doc. 100, 48th Cong, 1st Sess.). Washington: Government Printing Office.
Węslawski, J.M. and J. Legeżyńska. (2002). ‘Chances for Arctic Survival: Greely’s Expedition Revisited’, Arctic, 55(4), pp. 373-379. Available at: http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic55-4-373.pdf

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S1 E10. ICE PART I – The Franklin Expedition

December 26, 2019November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

What happened to the Franklin Expedition? This episode, we’re headed up to the Arctic circle to investigate one of the greatest mysteries of the Victorian era.

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

Cavell, J. (2013). ‘Publishing Sir John Franklin’s fate: cannibalism, journalism, and the 1881 edition of Leopold McClintock’s “The voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the Arctic seas”’. Book History, 16, pp. 155-184. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42705784
Geiger, J.G. and O. Beattie. (2004). Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition. London: Bloomsbury.
Hawkes, N. (1995). ‘Trapped explorers were forced into cannibalism; Sir John Franklin expedition’. The Times, London, 13 May. Available at: https://search.proquest.com/docview/318284753
Keenleyside, A., M. Bertulli and H.C. Fricke. (1997). ‘The final days of the Franklin Expedition: new skeletal evidence’. Arctic, 50(1), pp. 36-46. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic1089
Landseer, E.H. (1864). Man proposes, God disposes [Oil on canvas]. Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham. Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manproposesgoddisposes.jpg
Mays, S. and O. Beattie. (2016). ‘Evidence for end-stage cannibalism on Sir John Franklin’s last expedition to the Arctic, 1845’. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 26, pp. 778-786. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2479
Murphy, J. (2018). ‘Is the Arctic set to become a main shipping route?’. BBC News, Toronto, 1 November. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45527531
Palin, M. (2018). Erebus: The Story of a Ship. London: Hutchinson.
Peglar, H. (2000). Russell Potter’s transcript of the “Peglar Papers,” MS. 9388/1-11, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Transcribed by R. Potter. Available at: http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/aglooka/peglar-fulltext-rev_2000.pdf
Rogers, S. (1981). ‘Northwest Passage’. Stan Rogers. Northwest Passage (Remastered). [Digital]. Ontario: Borealis Records & Forgarty’s Cove Music. Available at: https://open.spotify.com/track/1LMJZeNGgZ5aqHR1yqd8Fy
Shapton, L. (2016). ‘Artifacts of a doomed expedition’. New York Times Magazine, 18 March. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/20/magazine/franklin-expedition.html
Smurftrooper. (2019). Supposed Route of Franklin’s expedition 1845-1848.svg. Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Supposed_Route_of_Franklin%27s_expedition_1845-1848.svg
Stenton, D.R. (2014). ‘A most inhospitable coast: the report of Lieutenant William Hobson’s 1859 search for the Franklin Expedition on King William Island’. Arctic, 67(4), pp. 511-522. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4424
Stenton, D.R., A. Keenleyside and R.W. Park. (2015). ‘The “boat place” burial: new skeletal evidence from the 1845 Franklin Expedition’. Arctic, 68(1), pp. 32-44. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4454
Stenton, D.R. and R.W. Park. (2017). ‘History, oral history and archaeology: reinterpreting the “boat places” of Erebus Bay’. Arctic, 70(2), pp. 203-218. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4649
Stiles, D. (2017). ‘“Common disaster”?!: three works revealing the importance of Inuit presence and Inuit oral history [on the writings about the man in charge / the men about / the unceasing searching for the Erebus and Terror]’. Journal of Canadian Studies, 51(2), pp. 520-532. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs.2017-0002.r1
Woods, A. (2016). ‘Franklin’s last voyage’. Archaeology, 69(4), pp. 36-41. Available at: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/220-1607/features/4559-canada-erebus-discovery

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S1 E9. SEA PART VI – The Cospatrick

December 19, 2019November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast 1 Comment

The emigrant ship Cospatrick is headed to Auckland when it catches ablaze at sea, resulting in a tragic loss of lives that makes it one of the worst disasters in New Zealand’s history. But for the few survivors who escape by lifeboat, the horror isn’t over yet…

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

Clark, C.R. (2006). Women and Children Last: The Burning of the Emigrant Ship Cospatrick. Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
Cowdell, P. (2010). ‘Cannibal ballads: not just a question of taste…”. Folk Music Journal, 9(5), pp. 723-747. Available at: www.jstor.org/stable/25654209.
Illustrated London News. (1875). ‘Burning of the Emigrant-Ship Cospatrick at Sea’. Illustrated London News, 2 January. Available at: http://www.theshipslist.com/accounts/cospatrick.shtml
Liverpool Mercury. (1874). ‘An emigrant ship burned, supposed Loss of 450 lives, terrible privations of the survivors’. Liverpool Mercury, 29 December. Available at: http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/cospatrick.html
Liverpool Mercury. (1874). ‘The burning of an emigrant ship, further particulars, the Second Mate’s statement’. Liverpool Mercury, 30 December. Available at: http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/cospatrick.html
Rhodes, T.S. (2014). ‘Cannibalism at sea’, The Pirate Empire, 13 January. Available at: http://thepirateempire.blogspot.com/2014/01/cannibalism-at-sea.html
Vietze, A. and S. Erickson. (2012). Boon Island: A True Story of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Cannibalism. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press.
Wilson, J. (2005). ‘Fire on the Cospatrick’ in Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Wellington: Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Available at: https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/2563/fire-on-the-cospatrick

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S1 E8. SEA PART V – The Mignonette

December 12, 2019November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

Is survival cannibalism illegal? After the crew of the Mignonette turn to the custom of the sea, they find themselves embroiled in a landmark 19th Century court case. The status of maritime cannibalism in British law will never be the same again.

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

Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 – 1907). (1884). ‘The wreck of the Mignonette’, Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 – 1907), 15 November. Available at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71020081/5045099#
Hanson, N. (1999). ‘The custom of the sea’, Independent, 6 October. Available at: https://search.proquest.com/docview/311526455
Hibbard, A. (2019). ‘Cannibalism and the late-Victorian adventure novel: The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens’, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 62(3), pp. 305-327. Available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/721841/summary
Kidd-Hewitt, D. (2017). ‘Homicide By Natural Necessity: The Mignonette Tragedy’, David Kidd-Hewitt, 6 November. Available at: https://davidkiddhewitt.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/homicide-by-natural-necessity-the-mignonette-tragedy/
Moreton, C. (1996). ‘He wanted some adventure on the high seas. His shipmates ate him’, Independent, 28 July. Available at: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/he-wanted-some-adventure-on-the-high-seas-his-shipmates-ate-him-1330828.html.
The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens. (1884). 14 QBD 273 DC. Available at: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/1884/2.html

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S1 E7. SEA PART IV – The Whaleship Essex

December 5, 2019November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast 1 Comment

The crew of a 19th Century whaleship experience an unlucky turn of fate when they’re sunk by a whale. In this episode, Alix tells the story of the Essex, the disaster which inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick.

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

Alexander, C. (2004). The Bounty: The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty. London: Penguin Books.
Beidler, A. (2009). Eating Owen: The Imagined True Story. Seattle, WA: Coffeetown Press.
Boren, M.E. (2000). ‘What’s Eating Ahab? The Logic of Ingestion and the Performance of Meaning in Moby-Dick’, Style, 34(1), pp. 1-24. Available at: www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.34.1.1
Carlisle, H. (2000). The Jonah Man. London: Orion Books.
Cook, P. (2019). You Wouldn’t Want To Sail On A 19th-Century Whaling Ship!, Brighton: Book House.
Cowdell, P. (2010). ‘Cannibal Ballads: Not Just a Question of Taste…’, Folk Music Journal, 9(5), pp. 723-747. Available at: www.jstor.org/stable/25654209
Dolin, E.J. (2008), Leviathan: the history of whaling in America. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
Dowling, D.O. (2016). Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America’s Most Storied Shipwreck. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England.
Gatineau, M. and S. Mathrani. (2011). Obesity and Ethnicity. Oxford: National Obesity Observatory. Available at: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20170110172557/https://www.noo.org.uk/uploads/doc/vid_9851_Obesity_ethnicity.pdf
Hosain, G.M.M., M. Rahman, K.J. Williams, and A.B. Berenson. (2010). ‘Racial differences in the association between body fat distribution and lipid profiles among reproductive-age women’, Diabetes & Metabolism, 36(4), pp. 278-285. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939924/
In the Heart of the Sea. (2015). [DVD]. Directed by Ron Howard. Burbank, CA: Warner Bros.
Karttunen, F.R. (2005). The other islanders: people who pulled Nantucket’s oars. New Bedford, MA: Spinner Publications.
Krueger, P.M. and E.N. Reither. (2015). ‘Mind the gap: Race/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in obesity’, Current Diabetes Reports, 15(95). Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947380/
Mass Moments. Captain Absalom Boston dies on Nantucket. Available at: https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/captain-absalom-boston-dies-on-nantucket.html
Melville, H. (2008). Moby Dick; or, The Whale. Urbana, IL: Project Gutenberg. Available at: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm
Nickerson, T. and O. Chase. (2000). The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Philbrick, N. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Rhodes, T.S. (2014). ‘Cannibalism at sea’, The Pirate Empire, 13 January. Available at: http://thepirateempire.blogspot.com/2014/01/cannibalism-at-sea.html
Severin, T. (2018). In search of Moby Dick: Quest for the white whale. London: Endeavour Media.
Wagner, D.R. and V.H. Heyward. (2000). ‘Measures of body composition in blacks and whites: a comparative review’, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 71(6), pp. 1392-1402. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/71/6/1392/4729362
The Whale. (2013). BBC One Television, 22 December.

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S1 E6. SEA PART III – The Raft of the Medusa

November 28, 2019November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

Have you ever been so drunk you’ve started eating people? This episode, Carmella tells the absurd true story behind Géricault’s famous painting of ‘The Raft of the Medusa’.

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

Corréard, A. and H. Savigny. (1821). Naufrage de la frégate ‘La Méduse’, faisant partie de l’expédition du Sénégal, en 1816 (5th edition). Paris: Corréard. Available at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1036098.texteImage
Géricault, T. (1819). Le Radeau de la Méduse [Oil on canvas]. Louvre, Paris. Available at: https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/raft-medusa
Journal des débats politiques et littéraires. (1816). ‘Naufrage de la Méduse’, Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 13 September, pp. 2-4. Available at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k421756q/f2.image
Riding, C. (2003). ‘The fatal raft’, History Today, 53(2), pp. 38-44.
Shaw, M. (2012). ‘The Doctor and the cannibals’, The Dickensian, 108(487), pp. 117-125. Available at: https://search.proquest.com/openview/d26548f821f01e3d29bef995e47fbc0e

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S1 E5. SEA PART II – The Custom of the Sea

November 21, 2019November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

Eating your crew-mates after a shipwreck used to be so common that it was known as the ‘custom of the sea’. This episode, Alix offers up a buffet of maritime disasters that ended in cannibalism.

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

Blick, J.P. (1988). ‘The cannibalism issue: structuralist and materialist interpretations and other concerns’, Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, 18, pp. 8-29. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1805
Grahame, K. (2010). The Wind in the Willows. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Harvard University. (2009). Justice: What’s The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 “THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER”. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY
Kemmy, J. (1981). ‘The Death of a Cabin Boy’, The Old Limerick Journal, 9(4), p. 3. Available at: http://www.limerickcity.ie/media/death%20of%20a%20cabin-boy.pdf
Murphy, C. (2014). ‘Theatre: The terrible and true story of the ship’s captain who ate his crew’, Irish Independent, 2 November. Available at: https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/theatre-the-terrible-and-true-story-of-the-ships-captain-who-ate-his-crew-30696766.html
Rhodes, T.S. (2014). ‘Cannibalism at sea’, The Pirate Empire, 13 January. Available at: http://thepirateempire.blogspot.com/2014/01/cannibalism-at-sea.html

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S1 E4. SEA PART I – The Sinking of the Luxborough Galley

November 14, 2019November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast 1 Comment

A fire at sea leads to a grisly fate for the crew of the Luxborough Galley, an 18th Century slave ship.

CREDITS

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

With special thanks to Ellys Harrison for the indispensable help with research.

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

Campbell, J. (1813). ‘William Boys, Esq.’, in Naval history of Great Britain, including the history and lives of the British admirals. (Volume 5). London: John Stockdale, pp. 318-325. Available at: https://archive.org/details/navalhistoryofgr05campiala/page/318
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