Stig of the Dump (1981) - Screens 137

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.

Links

• Watch Stig of the Dump (1981) on YouTube
• Listen to the audiobook of Stig of the Dump on YouTube
• Sherbet
• Conkers
• 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
• Kits Coty
• Dolmen

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