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
Crain, C. (1994). ‘Lovers of human flesh: homosexuality and cannibalism in Melville’s novels’, American Literature, 66(1), pp. 25-53. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2927432
Harrison, E. (2018). The Sinking of the Luxborough Galley. Unpublished.
Kellaway, W. (2014). The Luxborough Galley. Available at: http://www.leshaigh.co.uk/notesstories/luxborough.html
Knight, C. (1834). ‘Burning of a ship at sea, and sufferings of the survivors among the crew’ in The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. London: Charles Knight, pp. 260-262. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bKdbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA260
Lowry, E. (2018). Dark Water. London: Riverrun.
Southey, T. (1827). ‘1727’, in Chronological History of the West Indies. (Volume 2). London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, pp. 240-244. Available at: https://archive.org/details/chronologicalhi01soutgoog/page/n249

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S1 E3. LAND PART III – The Starving Time at Jamestown and the Siege of Leningrad

November 7, 2019November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

What forces an entire settlement into cannibalism? In this two-part episode, we’re looking at Jamestown and Leningrad – two stories of the terrible effects of war and famine on a desperate populace.

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

Busch, R. (2014). Survivors of Stalingrad: eyewitness accounts from the 6th Army, 1942-43. London: Frontline Books.
Clapperton, J. (2007). ‘The Siege of Leningrad as sacred narrative: conversations with survivors’, Oral History, 35(1), pp. 49-60. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40179922
Coates, T. (2004). ‘Grappling with Holodomor: thoughts on Timothy Snyder’s “The Bloodlands”’, The Atlantic. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/grappling-with-holodomor/282816/
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
History.com. (2019). Battle of Stalingrad. Available at: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad
Jones, M. (2008). Leningrad: state of siege. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Kelso, W. M. (2017). Jamestown, the truth revealed. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
Killgrove, K. (2015). ‘Skeletons of Napoleon’s soldiers discovered in mass grave show signs of starvation’, Forbes. Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/07/25/skeletons-of-napoleons-soldiers-in-mass-grave-show-signs-of-starvation/#1cd86fa73743
Percy, G. (2012). ‘“This starveing Tyme”; an excerpt from “A Trewe Relacyon of the procedeings and ocurrentes of Momente which have hapned in Virginia”’, in Encyclopedia Virginia. Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Humanities. Available at: https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/_This_starveing_Tyme_an_excerpt_from_A_Trewe_Relacyon_of_the_procedeings_and_ocurrentes_of_Momente_which_have_hapned_in_Virginia_by_George_Percy
Pocahontas. (1995). [VHS]. Directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg. United States: Walt Disney Pictures.
Schubel, T. (2016). Patawomeck Tribe in Stafford. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVjLvzCTS4o
Vardy, S. B. and A. H. Vardy. (2007). ‘Cannibalism in Stalin’s Russia and Mao’s China’, East European Quarterly, 41(2), pp. 223-228. Available at: https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-167652841/cannabilism-in-stalin-s-russia-and-mao-s-china

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S1 E2. LAND PART II – The Uruguayan Flight Disaster

October 31, 2019November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

If you’re scared of flying, here’s why you’re right! This episode, we’re covering the tragic fate of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as The Miracle of the Andes.

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

Constantine, N. (2018). A History of Cannibalism: From ancient cultures to survival stories and modern psychopaths. London: Arcturus Publishing.
I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash. (2010). [DVD] Directed by Brad Osborne. Dallas, TX: AMS Pictures.
Read, P. P. (2012). Alive: The True Story of the Andes Survivors. London: Random House.
Schutt, B. (2017). Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism. London: Profile Books.

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S1 E1. LAND PART I – The Donner Party

October 31, 2019November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

Why shouldn’t you take an untested shortcut on the California trail? In our first episode, we sink our teeth into the story of the Donner Party: the most infamous case of survival cannibalism in American history.

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

Di Stefano, D. (2006). ‘Alfred Packer’s world: risk, responsibility, and the place of experience in mountain culture, 1873-1907’, Journal of Social History, 40(1), pp. 181–204. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4491860
Dixon, K. J., S. A. Novak, G. Robbins, J. M. Schablitsky, G. R. Scott, and G. L. Tasa. (2010). ”Men, women, and children starving’: archaeology of the Donner family camp’, American Antiquity, 75(3), pp. 627-656. Available at: https://doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.75.3.627
Holden, C. (2006). ‘Donner Party postmortem’, Science, 311(5760), p. 447. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.311.5760.447c
Patton, E. (2011). ‘When groups fall apart: the Donner Party disaster’, Journal of Management History, 17(4), pp. 435-450. Available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17511341111164436
Rarick, E. (2008). Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Schablitsky, J. (2012). ‘Letter from California: A New Look at the Donner Party’, Archaeology, 65(3). Available at: https://archive.archaeology.org/1205/letter/donner_party_alder_creek_washoe.html
Stuckey, M. E. (2011). ‘The Donner Party and the rhetoric of westward expansion’, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 14(2), pp. 229-260. Available at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/communication_facpub/24/
Voeller, C. R. (2009). ”A man is a fool who prefers poor California beef to human flesh’: (re)definitions of masculinity in Nineteenth-Century US Donner Party literature’, Western American Literature, 44(3), pp. 200–223. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43022742

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S1 E0. Cannibalism Q&A / Meet the hosts

October 24, 2019November 21, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

What have you always wanted to know about cannibalism?

Whet your appetite and meet your hosts Alix and Carmella as they answer listener questions about all things anthropophagous (aka “human flesh-eating”) in the run up to Episode One.

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

Bichell, R. E. (2016). When people ate people, a strange disease emerged. Available at: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged
Constantine, N. (2018). A History of Cannibalism: From ancient cultures to survival stories and modern psychopaths. London: Arcturus Publishing.
Fultz, I. (2015). Cannibalism in the Bible. Available at: https://www.rationalchristianity.net/cannibal.html
Gibson, W. (2007). The Boat, Singapore Escape: Cannibalism At Sea. Burrough on the Hill: Monsoon Books Pte.
In The Heart of the Sea. (2015). [DVD] Directed by Ron Howard. Burbank, CA: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Jones, M. (2008). Leningrad: State of siege. New York, NY: Basic Books.
King James Version of the Bible (2011). Urbana, IL: Project Gutenberg. Available at: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10/10-h/10-h.htm
Kupperman, K. O. (2007). Roanoke: the abandoned colony. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Lam, M.Y. and T. Merino. (2017). ‘What the notorious flesh-eating Aghor religion of India is really like’, Washington Post, 16 June. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/06/16/what-the-notorious-flesh-eating-aghor-religion-of-india-is-really-like/
Mufson, B. (2018). ‘This guy served his friends tacos made from his own amputated leg’, Vice, 12 June. Available at: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gykmn7/legal-ethical-cannibalism-human-meat-tacos-reddit-wtf
Philbrick, N. (2015). In the heart of the sea: The tragedy of the whaleship Essex. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Pratchett, T. (2014). Monstrous regiment (Volume 31). London: Random House.
Read, P.P. (2012). Alive: The True Story of the Andes Survivors. London: Random House.
Schutt, B. (2017). Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism. London: Profile Books.
Sugg, R. (2015). Mummies, cannibals and vampires: the history of corpse medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians. Abingdon: Routledge.
Węslawski, J.M. and Legeżyńska, J. (2002). ‘Chances for Arctic survival: Greely’s expedition revisited’, Arctic, 55(4), pp. 373-379. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic721
Zola, E. (1998). Germinal. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Zutshi, V. (2017). ‘CNN’s portrayal of a “cannibalistic” religious sect has exposed the hypocrisy of the Indian diaspora’, Quartz India, 24 March. Available at: https://qz.com/india/940071/cnns-portrayal-of-a-cannibalistic-religious-sect-in-india-has-exposed-the-hypocrisy-of-the-hindu-diaspora/

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Third Trailer

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

Would you eat another person to survive?

Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast launches on 31 October 2019.

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.

Second Trailer

October 3, 2019Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

How far would you go to stay alive?

From failing colonies to the frozen North, from whaling ships to wagon trains, humans have been eating other humans to survive since time began.

Join hosts Carmella and Alix in a new podcast on the true history of survival cannibalism. Each episode, we’ll be telling a different real-life story about people pushed to break this ultimate taboo.

Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast launches on 31 October 2019.

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.

First Trailer

August 30, 2019August 30, 2019Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

Join hosts Alix and Carmella in a new podcast on the true history of survival cannibalism.

Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast will be launching 31 October 2019.

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.