The Scopes Monkey Trial

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Tennessee in 1925, and a young school teacher is put on trial for teaching his students about evolution. The dramatic trial grips the whole of America and beyond; pitting science against religion and freedom of speech against the rule of law - while the locals are deeply offended at the suggestion that they are descended from monkeys. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History. I'm Angela Barnes. And I'm Jono Farrell. Yay. And this week, it's exciting. We are going to be talking about one of the most famous trials in history. And I bloody love a good courtroom drama.
0:24.5	Tragically, this is not a good courtroom drama because we just don't have the acting skills.
0:25.4	Speak for yourself, mate.
0:27.0	I have read a book.
0:29.9	My book, my book, Weir Skills are pretty competent.
0:31.3	I'm up to Year 7 standard now.
0:36.9	And I read a book about a very famous trial called the Scopes Monkey Trial.
0:39.4	Summer of the Gods by E.J. Larson. Just to be trial called the Scopes Monkey Trial. Summer of the Gods by E.J. Larson.
0:44.2	Just to be clear, the Scopes Monkey Trial, this isn't about a monkey that's on trial.
0:47.2	No. This isn't Hartley Paul in Napoleonic Times. No, that's a whole other podcast.
0:48.3	Something else.
0:49.2	It was called the Monkey Trial because it was all about evolution.
0:53.6	Was man descended from the apes?
0:56.0	No said the law.
0:57.3	No said the prosecution.
0:59.0	Yes, said science.
1:00.1	And a young teacher put on trial for teaching the scientific truth.
1:05.6	So this is a trial that took place in the USA, of course, in 1925, in the deeply religious state of Tennessee in the South, in the Bible Belt there.
1:15.7	And it's a case that pitted religion against science, the individual freedom against the state, and two great national figures against each other in what the press dialed the trial of the century.
1:27.3	So a bit of background on evolution, Angela. Do you want to go back to when? Oh, great. Yes, I can do this. dialed the trial of the century.
1:29.2	So a bit of background on evolution, Angela.
1:30.1	Do you want to go back to when?
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