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S1E9 The Ancestral Trail? 'Neanderthal' by John Darnton (1996)
A project that was almost certainly greenlit following the immense success of the novel and movie Jurassic Park, John Darnton’s 1996 novel ‘Neanderthal’ is a relatively rare 1990s example of a…
S1E8 Stop Eating My Sesame Cake: Congo (1995)
Described recently by one of its stars as 'one of the great bad movies of our time,' the widely-panned 1995 cinema outing for Michael Crichton's Congo is given a hearing at the Explorer's Club. A…
S1E7 Gorillas In Our Midst: Michael Crichton's Congo (1980)
Michael Crichton takes an unlikely band of explorers into central Africa to recreate the classic 'lost city' narrative, almost one hundred years after H. Rider Haggard invented this literary form.…
S1E6 The Fragility of Belief: Where Bigfoot Walks by Robert Michael Pyle
With the Bigfoot world consumed by debate over a documentary supposedly proving the Patterson-Gimlin film to be a hoax, we at the Explorer's Club retire to a gentler place: a look back at one of my…
S1E5 No One Would Have Believed: The Cryptozoology of H.G. Wells
In this episode, we cover several of H.G. Wells' stories which contain mysterious animals, or other links to the world of cryptozoology. These stories include underwater civilisations of fish-people,…
S1E4 Heartless in Atlantis: Dennis Wheatley's 'The Man Who Missed The War'
Dennis Wheatley is better known for his occult novels. But he wrote several 'lost race' novels as well. 'The Man Who Missed The War' from 1946 is by far the daftest of them all, though of course it…
S1E3 The Road To The Lost World: The Cryptozoology of Arthur Conan Doyle
'There are jungles of the upper air, and there are worse things than tigers which inhabit them ...'Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a few stories, other than The Lost World , which might be considered…
S1E2 Telling Tales: King Kong's Spider-Pit Sequence
The lost 'Spider-Pit Sequence' from the original 1933 King Kong has long been the subject of much lore and myth-making. Was it truly a scene so disturbing it had to be cut? Were audiences terrified…
S1E1 All The Time In The World: Lost Horizon (James Hilton, 1933)
For your first trip to the Explorer's Club, crack open a copy of James Hilton's 1933 classic 'Lost Horizon.' Journey to Shangri-La, where sensitive types from many countries wait out the turbulent…
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The Lost Valley has published 9 episodes since February 2026, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
The Lost Valley is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 40m.
