Episode 39: Ammonite (2020)

Ammonite (2020) is a fictional historical love story based on the lives of two real Victorian paleontologists, Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison. Kim has a bee in her bonnet about this movie: too much hot sex and not enough paleontology! We’re definitely earning our “explicit” tag on this episode!

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In this episode:

• Stone Girl Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning by Laurence Anholt

• Lyell, Hutton, uniformitarianism, and catastrophism

• Forgotten women of paleontology: Charlotte Murchison

• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

• Curiosity by Joan Thomas

• Dr. James Manby Gully’s “Water Cure”

• The Victorians were not sexually repressed

• Anne Lister’s coded lesbian diary