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| 4 O'clock Friends, The | ...CHARLES DARWIN... |
| Bbc Debate, The [world Service] | ...Published 150 years ago, CHARLES DARWIN's seminal work, On the Origin of Species, continues to cause debate between scientists and some people of religious faith for whom the idea that man evolved from more primitive animals remains controversial.... |
| Bbc World Drama [world Service] | ...Drama based on the correspondence of CHARLES DARWIN and his contemporaries, showing a very different man from the popular image.... |
| Beagle Diary, The | ...CHARLES DARWIN encounters the Gauchos of Argentina and goes hunting. Jo Stone-Fewings reads extracts from his journal.... |
| Buried Treasure | ...One of Murray's most famous authors was CHARLES DARWIN, and the archive includes his original letter outlining the chapters of The Origin of Species. It was a book which changed our understanding of the world, but when Vanessa Collingridge delves into the boxes of papers she discovers that the letter in which he asks the publisher to read his manuscript is surprisingly modest.... |
| Darkness And The Light, The | ...The second of two programmes exploring the light and dark sides of Victorian society through its literature. 2: Light. Featuring readings from works by Florence Nightingale, CHARLES DARWIN and Queen Victoria.... |
| Darwin - In Our Time | ...To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of CHARLES DARWIN in 2009 and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, Melvyn Bragg presents a series about Darwin's life and work.... |
| Darwin - My Ancestor | ...Writer and poet Ruth Padel investigates the qualities of her great great grandfather CHARLES DARWIN and attempts to discover the man behind the science.... |
| Darwin Songs | ...Chris Eldon Lee hears the results after eight contemporary singer-songwriters are holed up for a week in a remote farmhouse in Shropshire and tasked to write songs about the life and work of CHARLES DARWIN. Featuring their daily creative life in the farmhouse, their expeditions into the land that the young Darwin knew and the premiere performance of their songs at Shrewsbury's new Theatre Severn, close to Darwin's birthplace.... |
| Darwin's Clever Cousin | ...The roots of genetic engineering extend back to the Victorian era - and a cousin of CHARLES DARWIN. Professor Steve Jones tells the story of Francis Galton, who was first to imagine a world in which cleverer, stronger people could be bred.... |
| Darwin's Conundrum | ...An investigation into what CHARLES DARWIN really thought about faith and religion. Although he has become an icon for militant secularists, and his theory of evolution is often used to challenge faith and belief, Darwin had a much more complex relationship with religion than is often believed and at one stage was even training to be a priest.... |
| Dear Darwin | ...Five leading scientists address letters to CHARLES DARWIN, expressing their thoughts on his work and legacy.... |
| Eureka Years, The | ...CHARLES DARWIN is an international celebrity following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Growing peas in a monastic garden a thousand miles away, however, Austrian priest Gregor Mendel holds the key to the process of heredity, the missing link in Darwin's theory.... |
| Ghost Of Number Ten, The | ...When New Labour uses selection lists to keep out socialist candidates, Lottie brings back the ghost of CHARLES DARWIN to show them that diversity is essential for survival. With Maggie Steed, Mark Williams and special guest Brian Murphy. Director Turan Ali. Jan Ravens and Andrew Wincott. Director Turan Ali ... |
| Great Lives | ...Series of biographical discussions with Humphrey Carpenter. Nobel Prize winner Paul Nurse discusses Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of CHARLES DARWIN ... |
| Hunting The Beagle | ...Dr Robert Prescott searches for the final resting place of the ship aboard which CHARLES DARWIN began to formulate the ideas which would eventually become his theory of evolution.... |
| Like Confessing A Murder | ...Drama based on the correspondence of CHARLES DARWIN and his contemporaries, showing a v.... |
| Material World, The | ...(1822 - 1911) was cousin of CHARLES DARWIN and the founder of eugenics, the science of controlled breeding in order to increase desirable inherited characteristics. Quentin Cooper finds out about the man who produced the first accurate weather reports, coined the term anti-cyclone, invented the statistical concepts of regression and correlation but whose dark motives and naive vision about humanity and nature versus nurture would leave their own stain on the history of science.... |
| Night Waves | ...CHARLES DARWIN... |
| On Giants' Shoulders | ...`Darwin - the Comfortable Revolutionary'. Melvyn Bragg talks to eminent scientists Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Dennett, John Maynard Smith and Richard Dawkins about their hero CHARLES DARWIN.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley is joined by the scholar, biographer and art historian FRANCEs Spalding, who has written extensively on members of the Bloomsbury Group. Her latest book is a much-acclaimed biography of the wood engraver Gwen Raverat - a friend of Rupert Brooke and Lytton Strachy and the granddaughter of CHARLES DARWIN. Spalding's musical choices include church and educational music and works by Vivaldi, Glinka, Mussorgsky and Billie Holiday ... |
| Science At Sea | ...Robert FitzRoy's achievements were overshadowed by those of his famous passenger, CHARLES DARWIN. But his storm warning system saved thousands of lives at sea. And, years ahead of his time, he laid the groundwork for today's weather reports and shipping forecasts.... |
| Science Cafe [radio Wales] | ...Adam Walton discusses favourite science books with three guests from the world of science, with subjects ranging from CHARLES DARWIN to the end of the world.... |
| This Sceptred Isle | ...The Arrow War And CHARLES DARWIN... |
| This Thing Of Darkness | ...Christian Rodska reads from Harry Thompson's novel based on the famous voyage of the Beagle and the careers of her young captain, Robert FitzRoy, and the ship's naturalist, CHARLES DARWIN.... |
| Voyage Of The Beagle | ...By CHARLES DARWIN. Abridged by Janet Browne. A week of CHARLES DARWIN's vivid journal `Voyage of the Beagle', in which he records the fascinating details of his round-the-world adventures as a young man. 1: Brazil. Reader: Matthew Macfadyen.... |
| Voyages Of Descent | ...A poetic journey through themes in evolution and creation, written by Clare Seal, narrated by Fenella Fielding. As Captain Robert FitzRoy prepares to sail around the world on HMS Beagle, he recruits a young naturalist called CHARLES DARWIN. This decision ultimately leads to tragedy for Fitzroy and fame for Darwin. With James MacPherson and Robin Thomson.... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...... |