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In this three-part series, Andrew Marr explores the legacy and contemporary influence of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.
In each film he combines incisive and witty story-telling with archive and stills to bring the unfolding of Darwin’s idea and its legacy to life.
He explores key moments in Darwin’s life-changing voyage on HMS Beagle in Argentina, Chile and Brazil, as well as visiting locations in the United States, Turkey, Belgium and Berlin that are central to the epic story of the development and impact of Darwin’s "dangerous idea".
Each programme explores the ways in which Darwin’s idea broke out from the world of science and took on a life of its own. The series shows that it still has the power to inspire, challenge and disturb us.
OU on the BBC: Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Body and soul
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Andrew Marr explores how Darwin's challenge to religion raised questions of body and soul. Read more : OU on the BBC: Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Body and soul
OU on the BBC: Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Born Equal?
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Despite being hijacked during some of the darkest years of the last century, Darwin's work proved we're all born equal. Read more : OU on the BBC: Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Born Equal?
OU on the BBC: Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Life and death
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How do Darwin’s ideas help us understand extinction and the interconnectedness of life and death? Read more : OU on the BBC: Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Life and death
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RiverAsUsual has started a thread discussing About the series.
In Andrew Marr's second programme in this wonderful series he examines the eugenics movement and its evil outcome in Nazi Germany.
It appears that all the comments I can find are still concentrating on the rightness of Darwin's conclusions and none on the horrid outcomes of his enthusiastic followers. Has Dawkins commented on this?
Does anyone else know of the play "The Sleeping Clergyman" written by James Bridie in the 1930's as a counter to the eugenicists. I have often wished that someone might revive this, perhaps in an updated form. Its arguments are still cogent to our own times.