S1 E14. Valentine’s Day Special – The Frances Mary and Cannibalism in Pop Culture

Happy Valentine’s Day from Casting Lots Podcast!

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.
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  • 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 
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  • Petrinovich, L.F. (2000). The Cannibal Within. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
  • Saunders, A. (1827). Narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of Miss Ann Saunders. Providence, RI: ZS Crossmon. Available at: https://archive.org/details/cihm_40276/page/n5 
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S1 E13. ICE PART IV – The Marten Hartwell Story

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

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S1 E12. ICE PART III – Douglas Mawson

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

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S1 E11. ICE PART II – Adolphus Greely

‘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

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S1 E10. ICE PART I – The Franklin Expedition

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

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S1 E9. SEA PART VI – The Cospatrick

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.

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S1 E8. SEA PART V – The Mignonette

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

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S1 E7. SEA PART IV – The Whaleship Essex

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.
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  • 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/
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  • Karttunen, F.R. (2005). The other islanders: people who pulled Nantucket’s oars. New Bedford, MA: Spinner Publications.
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  • 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.
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  • The Whale. (2013). BBC One Television, 22 December.

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

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.

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

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

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