Podcasts by Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPod/iPhone
Charles Darwin is one of most famous scientists of the nineteenth century, but what was he like as a child, a father and a husband? How did his emotional response to the world affect his scientific theories? And how widespread is his influence today? This album looks at Darwin
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Darwin's marriage from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ruth Padel discusses the relationship between Darwin and his wife Emma and how her religiosity sometimes conflicted with his scientific beliefs.She reads her poems "The Open Window", "He Leaves a M...
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Transcript -- Darwin's marriage from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ruth Padel discusses the relationship between Darwin and his wife Emma and how her religiosity sometimes conflicted with his scientific beliefs.She reads her poems "The Open Window", "He Leaves a M...
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Transcript -- Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist from 2009-11-04T03:36:32
A brief introduction to this album.
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Darwin's great great granddaughter from 2009-11-04T03:35:33
The poet Ruth Padel talks about her great great grandfather, Charles Darwin, and how she has responded to his life and work in her poetry.
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Transcript -- Darwin's great great granddaughter from 2009-11-04T03:35:32
The poet Ruth Padel talks about her great great grandfather, Charles Darwin, and how she has responded to his life and work in her poetry.
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Darwin's childhood from 2009-11-04T03:34:33
Ruth Padel and Sheila Ochugboju reflect on Darwin's childhood, and Ruth reads her poems "The Chapel School", The year my mother died", "The miser".
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Transcript -- Darwin's childhood from 2009-11-04T03:34:32
Ruth Padel and Sheila Ochugboju reflect on Darwin's childhood, and Ruth reads her poems "The Chapel School", The year my mother died", "The miser".
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Darwin's humanity from 2009-11-04T03:32:33
Ruth Padel muses on Darwin's experiences in Edinburgh and Brazil, and reads the poems that she was inspired to write: "Haunted", "He hangs out with a taxidermist", "A quarrel in Bahia Harbour".
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Transcript -- Darwin's humanity from 2009-11-04T03:32:32
Ruth Padel muses on Darwin's experiences in Edinburgh and Brazil, and reads the poems that she was inspired to write: "Haunted", "He hangs out with a taxidermist", "A quarrel in Bahia Harbour".
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Out of Africa from 2009-11-04T03:31:33
The Aftrican scientist Sheila Ochugboju reveals the vital importance of Charles Darwin to her own work. In the last century his ideas have been appropriated by a variety of different people for som...
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Transcript -- Out of Africa from 2009-11-04T03:31:32
The Aftrican scientist Sheila Ochugboju reveals the vital importance of Charles Darwin to her own work. In the last century his ideas have been appropriated by a variety of different people for som...
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Transcript -- A Tale of Two Beagles from 2009-11-04T03:30:32
Professor Colin Pillinger of the OU, compares his daring mission to Mars with Beagle II with Charles Darwin's epochal voyage to the Galapagos in the orginal Beagle. He discusses the parallels betw...
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Darwin's professor from 2009-11-04T03:29:33
An introduction to a museum of comparative biology at UCL in London, named after Darwin's biology professor Robert Grant.
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Transcript -- Darwin's professor from 2009-11-04T03:29:32
Transcript -- An introduction to a museum of comparative biology at UCL in London, named after Darwin's biology professor Robert Grant.
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Transcript -- Darwin's professor from 2009-11-04T03:29:32
Transcript -- An introduction to a museum of comparative biology at UCL in London, named after Darwin's biology professor Robert Grant.
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Transcript -- Darwin's professor from 2009-11-04T03:29:32
An introduction to a museum of comparative biology at UCL in London, named after Darwin's biology professor Robert Grant.
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