Timewatch
Season 10 Episode 9 - Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain
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.
Episodes in Season 10
Savagery and the American Indian: 1: Wilderness
50 min
Savagery and the American Indian: 2: Civilisation
50 min
The Man Who Made the Supergun
50 min
Reluctant Comrade
50 min
The Transmission of Roger Bacon
50 min
Palestine: The First Intifada
50 min
A Cold War
50 min
Beside Franco in Spain
60 min
Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain
50 min
The Columbus Conspiracy
50 min
Harvests of Iron: 1: The Watch on the Somme
50 min
Harvests of Iron: 2: The Theatre of Operations
50 min
Suffer the Children
50 min
The Spoils of War
50 min
