I go back to the Mesolithic in earnest in this episode and talk to Caroline Wickham-Jones and Spencer Carter about a wonderful tale that is part prehistorical fiction, part family saga, part whodunnit, the Gathering Night by Margaret Elphinstone. We also talk about the relative impact of natural disasters in prehistory.

The Gathering Night - Episode 4

Kim Biddulph talks to archaeologists and authors about the real stories behind the fictional books with archaeology and history as a major component.

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The long arm of the prehistoric past reaches through the millennia to grab our attention, and, in this episode, to grab us by the throat. Yes, we're talking folk horror in this episode, and trying not to shiver as we discuss how the past intrudes in uncanny ways on the present in films, plays and books. We have a full cast of characters in this spine-tingler, including Dr Lauren McIntyre, Rebecca Lambert (or Lady Liminal), David Southwell of the Hookland Guide, Dr Simon Underwood and Drone Lord.

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 * @noddinggoth [https://www.twitter.com/noddinggoth]
 * @ladyliminal1 [https://www.twitter.com/ladyliminal1]
 * @sunderdown [https://www.twitter.com/sunderdown]
 * @Drone_Lord [https://www.twitter.com/sunderdown]
 * @HooklandGuide [https://www.twitter.com/HooklandGuide]
 * @cultauthor [https://www.twitter.com/cultauthor]

Contact

 * Twitter: @prehistpod [https://www.twitter.com/prehistpod]

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 * Wildnote [http://www.wildnoteapp.com/]
 * TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/?ref_id=5724&ref_type=aff]
 * Timeular [https://timeular.com/ref/chriswebster/]

Horror Part 3 - Ep 33

The long arm of the prehistoric past reaches through the millennia to grab our attention, and, in this episode, to grab us by the throat. Yes, we're talking folk horror in this episode, and trying not to shiver as we discuss how the past intrudes in uncanny ways on the present in films, plays and books. We have a full cast of characters in this spine-tingler, including Dr Lauren McIntyre, Rebecca Lambert (or Lady Liminal), David Southwell of the Hookland Guide, Dr Simon Underwood and Drone Lord.

Guest Socials

 * @noddinggoth [https://www.twitter.com/noddinggoth]
 * @ladyliminal1 [https://www.twitter.com/ladyliminal1]
 * @sunderdown [https://www.twitter.com/sunderdown]
 * @Drone_Lord [https://www.twitter.com/sunderdown]
 * @HooklandGuide [https://www.twitter.com/HooklandGuide]
 * @cultauthor [https://www.twitter.com/cultauthor]

Contact

 * Twitter: @prehistpod [https://www.twitter.com/prehistpod]

Horror Part 2 - Ep 32

Horror Part 1 - Ep 31

Join Kim as she talks to Professor Chris Gosden of Oxford University about the historical and prehistorical links to Christmas books we all know and, perhaps, love. We take in an ambitious collection of four books from Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to John Masefield's Box of Delights, Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising and Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather.

Links

 * Chris Gosden's profile on the University of Oxford's website [https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-chris-gosden]
 * Chris Gosden's book The History of Magic [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/303/303993/the-history-of-magic/9780241294819.html]
 * A Christmas Carol on Project Gutenberg [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm]
 * The Box of Delights from publisher Egmont [https://www.egmontbooks.co.uk/products/the-box-of-delights-john-masefield-quentin-blake-9781405275521/]
 * The Dark is Rising from publisher Penguin [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/276/27630/the-dark-is-rising/9780241377093.html]
 * The Hogfather on Terry Pratchett Books [https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/books/the-hogfather/]
 * Stations of the Sun by Ronald Hutton on Oxford Scholarship Online [https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205708.001.0001/acprof-9780198205708]
 * Herne the Hunter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herne_the_Hunter]

Contact

 * Twitter: @prehistpod [https://www.twitter.com/prehistpod], @kimbiddulph [https://www.twitter.com/kimbiddulph]

Christmas Books - Ep 30

Kim talks to stone tool specialist and experimental archaeologist Dr James Dilley about the film Iceman, a dramatic reconstruction of the last days of Ötzi the Iceman. We consider such important questions as "What was the social structure of Chalcolithic society?", "Did they not have mittens?" and "Which 80s blockbuster was that actor in?".

James - @AncientCraft [https://www.twitter.com/%20AncientCraft]https://www.ancientcraft.co.uk [https://www.ancientcraft.co.uk/]

Contact

 * Twitter: @prehistpod [https://www.twitter.com/prehistpod] and @kimbiddulph [https://www.twitter.com/kimbiddulph]

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