Summary
The evolution of Charles Darwin's world-changing study, On the Origin of Species. Darwin enlists the help of his children in experiments that clarify his own thinking on animal collaboration, variation and natural selection. A new drama by Sarah Woods, recorded on location in Darwin's former home, Down House, Kent, by kind permission of English Heritage.
Darwin....Robert Glenister
Emma.....Clare Corbett
Etty.....Madeleine Grey
Parslow/Hooker.....Clive Hayward
Lenny.....Bertie Cresswell
Horace.....Wilbur Conabeare
Production Co-ordinator.....Eleri Sydney McAuliffe
Sound Designer.....Nigel Lewis
Directed by Emma Harding, BBC Audio Wales
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Drama of the Week. |
| 0:04.0 | This drama about the writing of the origin of species |
| 0:09.0 | is being recorded at Down House in Kent, |
| 0:12.0 | where Charles and Emma Darwin and their children lived. |
| 0:16.0 | I saw an immense great horse line. |
| 0:18.0 | And where Darwin worked for 40 years until his death in 1882. |
| 0:22.6 | Pa! |
| 0:23.6 | Papa! |
| 0:25.6 | More than a hundred years later, the house and gardens are still here, |
| 0:29.6 | cared for by English Heritage. |
| 0:31.6 | Some things have evolved. |
| 0:33.6 | There's a cafe |
| 0:35.6 | and a gift shop. |
| 0:38.3 | But some things remain the same, like Darwin's study. |
| 0:43.3 | It was an immense great hawfey park and I'm almost certain there too. |
| 0:48.3 | How can you be almost certain, really? |
| 0:51.3 | Because one day have gone first? |
| 0:57.8 | There are many times and places we could start this story. |
| 0:58.9 | What are these? |
| 1:00.1 | Seeds, Lenny. |
| 1:02.0 | In breakfast cups? |
| 1:02.3 | Yes. |
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