Looks like a very good series.
http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sh...FRUwpAodWmwuOg
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Featuring a superb cast and commentators including David Suzuki, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond and Iain McCalman, this is the story of how four young voyagers changed our world – forever. The epic adventures of Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace would revolutionise science, turn society on its head and give birth to an extraordinary theory.
Charles Darwin's experiences in the Southern Hemisphere, and particularly in Australasia, convinced him that everything he'd been told about life on earth might not be true. On his return to England, his incendiary idea – evolution by means of natural selection – grew into an obsession.
In this brilliant dramatised series we meet the man, his family, and the colleagues who supported him through years of illness, isolation, agonizing self-doubt and religious crisis. We gain a glimpse into the courage and tenacity it took to change the way we understand our world and our place in it.
A Screen Australia National Documentary Program. A ScreenWorld and Ferns Productions production. Produced in association with the New South Wales Film and Television Office and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with the assistance of the Canadian Television Fund and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Made in association with History Television (UK) and ZDF in co-operation with ARTE. An Australia–Canada Co-production.
Ep 1: Origins (1831-1844), Sunday 8 November 2009 at 7:30pm on ABC1
Twenty-one year-old Charles Darwin convinces his father to allow him a gap year before settling down – it turns into a miraculous five-year voyage of discovery across the Southern Hemisphere which transforms him and gives birth to a revolutionary scientific theory.
Ep 2: Evolutions (1844-1857), Sunday 15 November 2009 at 7:30pm on ABC1
Desperately accumulating evidence to support his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin finds support from two men who have also voyaged to the Southern Hemisphere: Joseph Hooker and Thomas Huxley. He will need them, as he is devastated by his daughter's death and the arrival of a letter that threatens to destroy everything.
Ep 3: Publish and Be Damned (1857-1864), Sunday 22 November 2009 at 7:30pm on ABC1
Charles Darwin is devastated when he receives a letter outlining an almost identical evolutionary theory to his own; he now has no choice but to publish his masterwork, On the Origin of Species.
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