Timewatch · SEASON 10
Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain
Episode 9 · 1991-10-02
- Documentary
Episode overview
Charles Darwin lived in fear of disgrace because of his views. He believed that humans were just a better sort of ape, that we evolved from worms. These were shattering ideas, especially from a man trained for the Church. Using new research, historians Adrian Desmond and James Moore see Darwin not as the far-sighted hero of the Beagle voyage, but as a privileged Victorian with everything to lose by publishing the heretical views he developed in survival-of-the-fittest London. Wracked with worry, Darwin was sick for most of the 20 years it took him to pluck up courage to tell the world his brutal theory of natural selection.
50 minutes
Season 10 episodes
1. Savagery and the American Indian: 1: Wilderness1991-01-23
2. Savagery and the American Indian: 2: Civilisation1991-01-30
3. The Man Who Made the Supergun1991-02-13
4. Reluctant Comrade1991-02-27
5. The Transmission of Roger Bacon1991-03-13
6. Palestine: The First Intifada1991-03-27
7. A Cold War1991-04-10
8. Beside Franco in Spain1991-09-18
9. Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain1991-10-02
10. The Columbus Conspiracy1991-10-16
11. Harvests of Iron: 1: The Watch on the Somme1991-10-30
12. Harvests of Iron: 2: The Theatre of Operations1991-11-06
13. Suffer the Children1991-11-20
14. The Spoils of War1991-12-18
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