Stig of the Dump (1981) - Screens 137

Stig of the Dump (1981) - Screens 137

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Stig of the Dump is a 1963 children’s novel by Clive King which spawned at least two TV adaptations; today we’re reviewing the first, from 1981. It’s a very gentle, very British show in which a neglected child befriends a caveman in a garbage dump and everyone else gaslights him for 10 episodes.

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• Watch Stig of the Dump (1981) on YouTube

• Listen to the audiobook of Stig of the Dump on YouTube

• Sherbet

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• Larder

• Prize-Giving Day

• Star Carr

• The Tucson Garbage Project

• Wierer et al. (2018) The Iceman’s lithic toolkit: Raw material, technology, typology and use

• Our episode on Iceman (2017)

• Harris. (2018). Roll Me a Great Stone: A Brief Historiography of Megalithic Construction and the Genesis of the Roller Hypothesis

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