Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast

Casting Lots Season 2 is now on YouTube!

Casting Lots Season 2 is now on YouTube! Make sure you're subscribed to stay up-to-date with future releases. Subscribe here:…

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Casting Lots is now on YouTube! Subscribe to us now and get ready to re-listen to all your Season 1 favourites, including the Franklin Expedition, the Donner Party, the Whaleship Essex and the Raft…

S4 E6. One last bite…

The time has come: it's the final episode of Casting Lots. For real this time. Join Alix and Carmella for all your remaining cannibalism questions answered, plus a bonus Arctic adventure involving…

S4 E5. DINNER GUESTS – Nibedita Sen & The Mayday Podcast

We are joined by our final dinner guests, writer Nibedita Sen and Ana and Luca of The Mayday Podcast, to talk speculative fiction, colonialism and some disastrous adventures that may not have ended…

S4 E4. DINNER GUESTS – Ally Wilkes & Linnea Hartsuyker

Why do we (being the specific group of people who make and listen to Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast) enjoy narratives about survival cannibalism so much? Authors Ally Wilkes and Linnea…

S4 E3. DINNER GUESTS – Richard Sugg, Curiosity of a Child & Grave History

One historian and six podcasters walk into a bar… This week, we’re chatting corpse medicine, recipe recommendations and penny dreadfuls with academic Richard Sugg, Ric and Anton of the Curiosity of a…

S4 E2. DINNER GUESTS – Neil McRobert & Nicasio Andres Reed

What’s so scary about cannibalism? We talk to horror experts Neil McRobert, host of Talking Scared Podcast, and Nicasio Andres Reed, editor at the Deadlands, to find out. Did you know Casting Lots…

S4 E1. DINNER GUESTS – Stacy Hackner & Paul Cowdell

Are you ready for an extra bite? In this bonus mini-season, Alix and Carmella invite some special dinner guests to the table. Today, bioarchaeologist Stacy Hackner and folklorist Paul Cowdell join…

Season 4 Trailer

Coming 31 October 2022: Season 4 of Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast. Join Alix and Carmella for an extra helping of survival cannibalism in this bonus mini-season, featuring a number of…

Season 3 Outtakes

S3 E13. SEA PART V – More Fun On Boats

Finishing off the season, and indeed the entirety of Casting Lots (boo hoo!), Carmella and Alix present six quick-fire stories of survival cannibalism at sea. Did you know Casting Lots now has…

S3 E12. SEA PART IV – The HMS Wager

This week, Alix shares the choose-your-own adventure tale of the HMS Wager, an 18th century British ship on a mission to annoy the Spanish. At any cost. Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find…

S3 E11. SEA PART III – The Bay of Pigs

When John F. Kennedy backs an invasion by sea of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, disastrously poor planning leaves Brigade 2506 in dire straits. Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble:…

S3 E10. SEA PART II – The Invercauld

Alix shares a shipwreck story with one hell of a plot twist in today's episode on the Invercauld. Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find it on Redbubble:…

S3 E9. SEA PART I – The Bolinao 52

This week, we look at Vietnamese ‘boat people’ and the Boliano 52 – a group of refugees left without aid in the South China Sea. Disclaimer: This episode was recorded prior to the announcement in…

S3 E8. ICE(?) PART II – The Polish-Muscovite War

What connects survival cannibalism and the house of Romanov? The answer is, of course, the Battle of Moscow of…

S3 E7. ICE(?) PART I – Yermak Timofeyevich

This week, we join Yermak Timofeyevich and his band of Cossacks in a chilly adventure across the Ural Mountains and into…

S3 E6. LAND PART VI – The Best of the Rest of the Wild West

Howdy! This week, we’re headed west – the Wild West, to be exact. Featuring characters such as Liver Eating Johnson, the Blues Brothers, Big Phil, and Uncle Dick Wootton, Alix takes us on a quick…

S3 E5. LAND PART V – Prehistoric Cannibalism 101

For as long as humans have existed, we have been eating other humans. This week, Carmella takes us on a tour of six Stone Age sites where evidence of survival cannibalism has been…

S3 E4. LAND PART IV – The Arduous March

Another week, another famine. This episode, Alix looks at a modern case of famine-induced survival cannibalism in North…