Origin

The evolution of Charles Darwin's world-changing study, On the Origin of Species. Darwin enlists the help of his children in experiments that clarify his own thinking on animal collaboration, variation and natural selection. A new drama by Sarah Woods, recorded on location in Darwin's former home, Down House, Kent, by kind permission of English Heritage. Darwin....Robert Glenister Emma.....Clare Corbett Etty.....Madeleine Grey Parslow/Hooker.....Clive Hayward Lenny.....Bertie Cresswell Horace.....Wilbur Conabeare Production Co-ordinator.....Eleri Sydney McAuliffe Sound Designer.....Nigel Lewis Directed by Emma Harding, BBC Audio Wales