Intro to Darwin Season

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Find out why 2009 is a special year, watch the animated TV trail and take a look at the Season's programmes.

In Our Time

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Melvyn Bragg asks why Darwin's writing remains such an influence on our understanding of nature.
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Dear Darwin

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Five eminent contemporary thinkers write personal letters to the great man.
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Hunting the Beagle

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Maritime historian Robert Prescott tracks down HMS Beagle's last resting place.
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Leading Edge

Geoff Watts on 'Darwin's Sacred Cause' - a controversial new book which claims that Darwin was driven by his anti-slavery beliefs.
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What Darwin Didn't Know

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Biologist Armand Leroi explores the evolution of evolution theory in the 150 years since Darwin.
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Charles Darwin and
the Tree of Life

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David Attenborough, a passionate Darwinian, shares his personal views on Darwin's theory.
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Darwin's Struggle

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The story of Darwin's twenty-year personal struggle that mirrored the natural world he observed.
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The Origins of The Origin

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Examining the connections between French and English evolutionary thought - and how giraffes evolved long necks.

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The Beagle Diary

Jo Stone-Fewings reads Charles Darwin's own account of his epic five-year voyage on board HMS Beagle at the age of 22.
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Darwin's Children

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Five essays explore Darwin's influence on art, literature, economics, religion and even online social networks.
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Darwin, My Ancestor

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Writer Ruth Padel's personal journey looking at the genius of her great-great-grandfather.
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Voyages of Descent

The tale of Captain Robert Fitzroy, who's decision to invite Darwin to sail with him ultimately ended in a mix of tragedy and fame.
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Night Waves

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Looking at the legacies of three titans of 20th century thought - Darwin, Marx and Freud.
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Like Confessing a Murder

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This moving drama, based on Charles and Emma Darwin's own words, recreates their private fears about Charles' ideas.
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Darwin's Conundrum

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The Reverend Angela Tilby explores Darwin's complex relationship with religion.
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Darwin's Garden

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Across three programmes, Jimmy Doherty recreates Darwin's ingenious experiments to show that evolution is all around.
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea

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Andrew Marr's three-part series looks at how Darwin's idea escaped the world of science and took on a life of its own.
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Did Darwin Kill God?

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Conor Cunningham argues that it's possible to be a Christian and accept the theory of evolution.
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Darwinian Sistine Chapel

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14 April, 11am Radio 4
The difficulties of conceiving and erecting 'Tree' - The Natural History Museum's recently unveiled art installation.

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The first part of the Darwin Season, centred around the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth on 12 February, is now over.

It will continue later in the year - 24 November is the 150th anniversary of the publication of 'On the Origin of Species'.

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