In this special episode, Alix tells the story of young Ann Saunders and the Frances Mary: a tale of shipwreck, survival cannibalism, and love.
Looking for a book or film to enjoy while you snuggle up to your significant other this evening? We’re also discussing our favourite examples of survival cannibalism in pop culture – from the literary to the pulpy to the plain old weird.
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
Birch, C. (2011). Jamrach’s Menagerie. London: Canongate.
Carlisle, H. (2000). The Jonah Man. London: Orion Books.
Crain, C. (1994). ‘Lovers of Human Flesh: Homosexuality and Cannibalism in Melville’s Novels’, American Literature, 66(1), pp. 25-53. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/2927432
Martel, Y. (2012). The Life of Pi. Edinburgh: Canongate.
Miskolcze, R. (2007). Women and Children First. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
Mitchell-Cook, A. (2011). ‘To Honor their Worth, Beauty and Accomplishments: Women in Early American-Anglo Shipwreck Accounts’, Coriolis, 2(1), pp. 17-33. Available at: http://ijms.nmdl.org/article/view/8071
Mitchell-Cook, A. (2013). A Sea of Misadventures. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
Thomas, R.A.M. (2018). Interesting and Authentic Narratives of the Most Remarkable Shipwrecks, Fires, Famines, Calamities, Providential Deliverances, and Lamentable Disasters on the Seas in Most Parts of the World. Miami, FL: HardPress.
Warkentin, E. (2018). A Land So Wild. San Jose, CA: Carnation Books.
Wilcox, J. (2000). Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature. Rochester: Boydell & Brewer.
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
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.
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. (2007). ‘Antarctic exposure: archives of the feeling body’, Cultural Geographies, 14(2), pp. 211-233. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1474474007075355
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/
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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#
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast 
