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Hunting the Beagle

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Last broadcast on Fri, 9 Jan 2009, 21:00 on BBC Radio 4.

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Biologist and maritime historian 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. He begins his journey at Woolwich Dockyard in London, where the Beagle's voyage began.

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Where HMS Beagle is buried

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  1. Fri 9 Jan 2009
    21:00
    BBC Radio 4

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58 minutes

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