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  1. Everything’s ‘By Air’ Nowadays

    Date released
    3 Dec 1931
    Series name
    Pathe Super Sound Gazette
    Issue no
    31/97
    NoS ID
    089529
    Story no
    9 / 10
    Extras
    1 film clip

    And here’s the latest - Roy Tuckett and Miss Cook, descendants of the great Charles Darwin - are going to search for the missing link.

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  2. Darwin and the Ancient Earth: Dinosaurs and the ‘Deep Past’ In the 19th-Century Imagination (2009)

    Subject
    Geology; Natural history

    Why was the young Charles Darwin’s fascination with geology so important for his later work and why was prehistory so popular in early nineteenth-century Britain? This podcast with Professor Jim Secord,...

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  3. Gabriel Egan (2013 Audio)

    Series
    Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory

    Podcast series in which Dr Neema Parvini, author of Shakespeare’s History Plays: Rethinking Historicism and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, interviews...

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  4. Is Human Evolution over? (2009)

    Subject
    Biology

    Audio recording from the Darwin College Lecture Series 2009 by Steve Jones. Many people - Darwin included - have claimed that the human species will continue to evolve in the future, as it has in the past....

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  5. Genius of Charles Darwin, The (2008)

    Subject
    Biology; Philosophy; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £19.99

    Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explores the work of Charles Darwin in this 3-part series for Channel 4. Darwin’s theory of evolution has always been at the crux of Dawkins’ criticism of...

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  6. Animated Life of A.R. Wallace, The

    Director
    Flora Lichtman; Sharon Shattuck
    Subject
    Biology

    This animated paper puppet video celebrates the life of Alfred Russel Wallace, who is co-credited, along with Charles Darwin, with conceptualising the theory of natural selection. [8 minutes]

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  7. Whalevolution

    Director
    Jordan Collver
    Subject
    Natural history

    Animation. This ten minute film shows the evolution of the sperm whale from the amphibious Pakicetus to its present form. After depicting six distinct points in evolutionary history, the film maker, a UK...

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  8. Economies in Crisis (2011)

    Subject
    Economics

    While we are experiencing the biggest global economic slowdown for six decades, the has created the ECONOMIES IN CRISES web page that brings together a range of Radio 4 programmes broadcast over recent...

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  9. Collapse of Atheism, The/ Collapse of the Theory of Evolution, The (2006)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

    Two programmes from the series based on the works of the Turkish author and thinker Harun Yahya, who promotes a creationist view of Islam. THE COLLAPSE OF ATHEISM maintains that the history of mankind is now...

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