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Darwin
came fourth in the Great Britons poll run by the BBC in 2002. It
underlines the fact that Darwin is a figure of not just national
but international significance and is regarded as one of the greatest
thinkers of the last millennium.
Next
year he will be the inspiration for an annual science and arts festival
in the town of his birth.
A
number of interested groups have come together to organise a series
of events expanding on the success of the annual Charles Darwin
Memorial Lecture.
The
festival is already attracting high-profile speakers and has the
support of Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson, Randall Keynes.
It
will begin modestly in 2003 but the aim is to develop it into an
international festival in time for the bicentenary of Darwin's birth
in 2009.
The
organisers are keen to hear from any group that feels it can contribute
ideas and they will also be looking for commercial sponsorship.
Charles
Darwin - 'Great Briton'
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will need to realplayer to listen to following interviews.
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download guide if you need help to listen to the audio.
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Found
out what happened to Charles Darwin's gardens -Jon King's
afternoon show explores the past. Click
here to found what they found.
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Interview
of Darwin biographer Cyril Aydon talks about why Charles
Darwin is all that and
so much more.
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It
may seem a long leap from a legendary web-slinger to the father
of evolutionary theory but not for Shrewsbury illustrator
Charlie Adlard.
Over
the years,
Charlie Adlard has built up quite a reputation as a graphic
novel artist based on his time with Marvel Comics in New York
drawing Spiderman as well as working on the comic book version
of The X-Files.
He's also created original characters of his own. When he
was approached to design a logo for the forthcoming Darwin
Festival, he was happy to oblige, even though Charles Darwin
has no super powers that we are aware of !
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Darwin's
views still upset some people. But what was the theory that started
a two-century fuss? Perhaps the full title of The Origin of Species,
in which Darwin pays tribute to other naturalists whose work he had
built on, sums it up: "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for
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