Roy Davies on The Darwin Conspiracy - October 4, 2014
Where Did the Road Go?
Seriah Azkath
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Roy Davies joins us to talk about his book The Darwin Conspiracy: Origins of a Scientific Crime. Did Charles Darwin really come up with the theory of evolution? Some say he stole the idea from others, but is there proof? And to what degree? Roy Davies does a fantastic job in this book of fleshing out what really happened in those days and revealing who really discovered what. It's a fascinating book, and will be an equaling fascinating conversation!
In nearly 30 years at the BBC, Roy Davies wrote, produced and directed many acclaimed documentaries for the archaeology and history series Chronicle and was for seven years Series Editor of Timewatch. He specialized in ground-breaking investigative and revisionist documentaries which challenged and re-examined popular historical beliefs among which were stories about the discovery of the tomb of Philip of Macedon and the row between Sir Arthur Evans and Professor Alan Wace over the origins of the Minoan civilization in Crete. Roy is also the author of Nautilus: Story of Man under the Sea, and was Executive Producer of the five-part BBC series of the same name which revealed the dangers of submarines since Napoleonic times and stories of the men who served in them. He was with Thor Heyerdahl when he burnt his reed boat off an island in the Red Sea in 1978, produced the programme which covered the raising of the Mary Rose off Southsea Castle in 1982 and covered the trial of O.J. Simpson for the BBC in 1995.
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| 0:28.7 | And now welcome to this week's edition of Where Did the Road Go? |
| 0:34.8 | And welcome to this edition of Where Did the Road Go? I am your host, Soraya. |
| 0:38.9 | And tonight we have a pre-recorded interview I did just earlier today with Roy Davies out of the UK. |
| 0:45.1 | He's the author of a book called The Darwin Conspiracy, and I absolutely loved this book. |
| 0:50.4 | I was made aware of Roy from Skeptico, the Skeptico podcast, and I thank Alex for that because the book is fantastic. |
| 0:58.6 | Now, the thing about this book is it is completely unavailable unless you want to pay a fortune for it on Amazon. |
| 1:05.2 | They sell for about 80 bucks or so on Amazon last time I looked. |
| 1:09.9 | But Roy has a bunch of them, and he is willing to sell them at the initial book cost, |
| 1:17.6 | which I don't know what it translates to exactly in pounds. |
| 1:19.8 | It's not a lot. |
| 1:20.7 | It's a very fair price for the book. |
| 1:22.8 | So if you want a copy of the book, your best bet is to contact Roy. |
| 1:27.9 | And he has a very simple email. |
| 1:30.0 | It's Troy Davies, T-R-O-Y-D-A-V-I-E-S at AOL.com. |
| 1:36.7 | And his name is Roy Davies, but apparently he has the name Troy Davies on AOL. |
| 1:42.8 | So if you write him, he will work out getting you a copy of the book if you would like to read it. |
| 1:49.4 | I highly recommend it. |
| 1:51.4 | And if you'd like it in an e-book form, let him know or let me know, and maybe we'll do something about making that available to everybody. |
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