The 3-part BBC TV series, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, is being co-produced by the UK’s Open University.
TV
by Tom Sutcliffe
The Independent – Arts & Books (United Kingdom), p. 8.
January 2, 2009
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Likeliest to deliver intellectual satisfaction is the BBC’s multi-network celebration of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth, which will include a David Attenborough special, Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, and a three-part series provisionally entitled Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. There will also be documentaries on the rise of Creationism, a “landmark” natural history series for BBC1 and Jimmy Doherty in In Darwin’s Garden, in which the Corporation’s favourite farmer recreates some of Darwin’s experiments.
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The big non-musical anniversaries are both to do with Charles Darwin, who was born on 12 February 1809, and published On the Origin of Species in 1859.
A whole year wouldn’t be enough to explore the difference he made to the way we see our place in the world – evolution being what the American philosopher Daniel Dennett called a “universal acid”, dissolving everything it touches – but Radio 3 and 4 are both promising to make a start.
