Advertisement

On Radio 4 Now

Week in Westminster

Week in Westminster

11:00 - 11:30

Peter Riddell assesses the chances of success of President Obama's Afghanistan troop surge

« Previous | Main | Next »

The Beagle Project

Post categories:

Chris Vallance | 17:03 UK time, Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Happy Darwin Day. And to mark the 199th birthday of the great scientist we're taking a look at the Beagle Project a blog led campaign to raise funds to rebuild HMS Beagle and retrace Darwin's historic voyage. I've a piece on PM which has already stirred up controversy in which I talk to Peter McGrath and Karen James of The Beagle Project (and there's a longer interview with Peter here). And as a blog exclusive I spoken with Randal Keynes great-great grandson of Charles Darwin, and someone with a continuing interest in the Galapagos and The Voyage of The Beagle


As well as the Beagle Project, I've greatly enjoyed visiting the blog of Darwin and Captain FitzRoy's journals. Today for example Captain FitzRoy wrote: This night we had dry beautiful weather, the leaves and sticks on the ground crackling under our feet as we walked, while at the ship, only sixty miles distant, rain poured down incessantly.

Comments

  1. At 06:22 PM on 12 Feb 2008, Frances O wrote:

    Thanks for drawing our attention to this, Chris.
    By 'eck, you're busy today!

    'Ello, ello, got 502'd. I thort that was in the past.

  2. At 06:33 PM on 12 Feb 2008, Frances O wrote:

    Thanks for drawing our attention to this, Chris.
    By 'eck, you're busy today!

    'Ello, ello, got 502'd. I thort that was in the past.

  3. At 05:46 PM on 13 Feb 2008, Frances O wrote:

    Me again. The PM Blog is bloggered. There's even a good old-fashioned 502 lurking there among the DNA breakdowns.

    DNA breakdown... > evolution... > Darwin? Is this spookily zeitgeisty?

    PS: can I say 'thanks' to Jen for her work on mods and modding?

    Right, let's see if this gets through. My last one took 3 attempts. 1736 on Wednesday...

  4. At 08:00 PM on 13 Feb 2008, Frances O wrote:

    Me again. The PM Blog is bloggered. There's even a good old-fashioned 502 lurking there among the DNA breakdowns.

    DNA breakdown... > evolution... > Darwin? Is this spookily zeitgeisty?

    PS: can I say 'thanks' to Jen for her work on mods and modding?

    Right, let's see if this gets through. My last one took 3 attempts. 1736 on Wednesday...
    1751...
    Gosh, it took 9 minutes to not work... 1800...
    1819...
    1847 and wondering if I can be bothered except to make a point...
    1945 and giving up.

This post is closed to new comments.

Jump to more content from this blog

About this blog

The programme that starts with its listeners. Join daily discussions online and contribute ideas for a weekly programme presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey.

Subscribe to iPM

You can stay up to date with iPM via these feeds.

iPM Feed(RSS)

iPM Feed(ATOM)

If you aren't sure what RSS is you'll find our beginner's guide to RSS useful.

About iPM

emailfavicon.png Email us
Twitter icon Our Twitter
facebook-icon.png Join our Facebook group

Listen to iPM

Download or subscribe to this programme's podcast

PodcastHelp

audio_icon_blue.gif Listen to iPM

Radio 4 Audience Panel

Linking Blogs

Explore the BBC

This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.