Darwin's great great granddaughter
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.
Darwin's childhood
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".
Darwin's marriage
Ruth Padel discusses the relationship between Darwin and his wife Emma and how her religiosity sometimes conflicted with his scientific beliefs.She re...
Darwin's humanity
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 ...
Out of Africa
The Aftrican scientist Sheila Ochugboju reveals the vital importance of Charles Darwin to her own work. In the last century his ideas have been approp...
A Tale of Two Beagles
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 o...
Darwin's professor
An introduction to a museum of comparative biology at UCL in London, named after Darwin's biology professor Robert Grant.