0:01:35 > 0:01:36Papa?
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Hmm?
0:01:38 > 0:01:39Tell me a story.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41All right. What about?
0:01:41 > 0:01:43I don't know.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45About everything.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Everything?
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Very well, then.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01In Tierra del Fuego,
0:02:01 > 0:02:04land of fire,
0:02:04 > 0:02:08a blighted and loveless country on the earth's furthest rim,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10lives a community
0:02:10 > 0:02:13of the dirtiest, most vulgar,
0:02:13 > 0:02:15least civilised people you can possibly imagine.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19They appeared almost entirely naked
0:02:19 > 0:02:22with their hair all the way down to their bottoms.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24They never washed their hands or their faces,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27even before dinner.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32One day, Captain Fitzroy went ashore to meet them.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56Thank you.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Not long now. I shall be with you presently.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Head to me, please.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08Very good.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Now, very still, please. No fidgeting.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13And above all, no smiling.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15Excuse me, sir?
0:03:15 > 0:03:17- Hmm?- Will this hurt?
0:03:17 > 0:03:20Oh, no, no, no.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22It's only a beam of light.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Papa?
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Yes?
0:03:29 > 0:03:30How can light make a picture?
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Well, now, they take a copper plate
0:03:32 > 0:03:34and they prepare it with chemicals,
0:03:34 > 0:03:36and these chemicals are activated
0:03:36 > 0:03:40by the light that reflects back from your face,
0:03:40 > 0:03:44and so the silver sticks to the places
0:03:44 > 0:03:47where the light is brightest. Understand?
0:03:47 > 0:03:49- Yes.- Ahem!
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Sorry. So sorry.
0:03:51 > 0:03:52Ah, thank you.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Go on. He went ashore to meet them.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56Yes, that's right. So, um,
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Captain Fitzroy went ashore
0:03:58 > 0:03:59to interview the Fuegians.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Now.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04He offered them some axe heads, some Calico,
0:04:04 > 0:04:06and very pretty buttons.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Total value, probably two shillings.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11This is yours. You take it.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14Look how it. Look how it glistens.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16See?
0:04:17 > 0:04:20And all he asked in return?
0:04:20 > 0:04:24A few spare children.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27You give me el nina.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Well, to the Fuegians,
0:04:30 > 0:04:33children were cheap and buttons were precious,
0:04:33 > 0:04:34so it didn't take very long
0:04:34 > 0:04:36before the Fuegians had their trinkets
0:04:36 > 0:04:39and Captain Fitzroy had his 3 children.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42He named them Boat Memory,
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Jemmy Button,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47And Fuegia Basket.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50CHILDREN SCREAM
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Come here, you dirty little beggar!
0:04:55 > 0:04:59SHOUTING
0:05:03 > 0:05:07The good captain had them washed and dressed,
0:05:07 > 0:05:09and he taught them the proper table manners.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Boat Memory died of smallpox,
0:05:48 > 0:05:49but the two littlest ones,
0:05:49 > 0:05:51they learnt their prayers
0:05:51 > 0:05:53and their times tables so excellently
0:05:53 > 0:05:56that they were invited to meet the king and queen.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22Everyone agreed that good Christian values
0:06:22 > 0:06:24had tamed the most savage of hearts.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27The king gave Jemmy a genuine brass telescope,
0:06:27 > 0:06:30and the queen gave Fuegia one of her Sunday best bonnets
0:06:30 > 0:06:33to keep forever.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Two years later, Captain Fitzroy and I took them home,
0:06:35 > 0:06:37accompanied by a young missionary,
0:06:37 > 0:06:40in the belief that by example,
0:06:40 > 0:06:45they would bring their fellow savages to God.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48What do you think happened?
0:06:48 > 0:06:51It didn't work.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53That's right, it didn't work. Of course it didn't work.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57SHOUTING
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Go after them, you fool! Get them now!
0:06:59 > 0:07:01Jemmy! Fuegia!
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Put your clothes back on! Come back!
0:07:04 > 0:07:08It was a complete and total failure.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11No, no, no!
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Quite still, didn't I say?
0:07:13 > 0:07:16We shall have to do it all over again.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19So sorry, sir. Badly behaved. So sorry.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01< Mr Darwin, sir?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03KNOCK ON DOOR
0:08:03 > 0:08:05< Come on, Mr Darwin, or your dinner will be spoilin'.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11CHILDREN CHATTER
0:08:11 > 0:08:13< Quiet, children. Let's wait for your father.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Mr D Will be in presently, ma'am.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23I imagine.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24Thank you, Mrs Davies.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Is Papa unwell again?
0:08:26 > 0:08:27He's always unwell these days.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31He is not, frankly. That is not exactly...
0:08:31 > 0:08:34He's probably caught something awful from the Hottentots.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Nanny Brodie said God was angry with him.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39- Brodie said no such thing. - Yes, she did!
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Good evening.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43- Good evening. - Good evening, Papa.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47Sorry I'm so late.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52Soup du jour, sir.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54CHILDREN GIGGLE
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Thank you, Parslow.
0:08:58 > 0:09:03Lord God, bless this family and the food we eat.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05We ask in thy name.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07- Amen.- Amen.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15I hear Mr Hooker is coming tomorrow.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19Yes. Yes, that's right.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22Did he say what it was about?
0:09:23 > 0:09:28I'm not sure that now's the time to discuss it.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Perhaps the time to discuss it was before you invited him.
0:09:30 > 0:09:35Well, quite possibly, but he...invited himself.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Sorry.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Tell Mrs Davies it was delicious,
0:09:44 > 0:09:48But my...my stomach's still not quite what it...
0:09:48 > 0:09:51..it should be. Forgive me.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55DOOR CLOSES
0:09:55 > 0:09:57- Can we go fishing? - Can we pick gooseberries?
0:09:57 > 0:09:59CHILDREN CHATTER
0:09:59 > 0:10:02DARWIN: 'October 17, 1858.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04'Passed a poor night.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06'Stomach still wretched.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09'Noticed a slight tremor in right hand.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12'Considering increasing laudanum by 10%, perhaps.'
0:10:12 > 0:10:14So we'll sacrifice the two tumblers.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17I want to skeletonise them as soon as possible.
0:10:17 > 0:10:18Yes, sir.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21'Selective breeding is undoubtedly working.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25'Already seeing real changes in wing structure.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27'I'm convinced that all fancy breeds,
0:10:27 > 0:10:29'pouter, carrier, tumbler, et cetera,
0:10:29 > 0:10:32'derive from the common rock pigeon.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34'Nature selects for survival,
0:10:34 > 0:10:37'man for appearance.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43'Must improve skeletonising methods.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46'Consider aqua regia,
0:10:46 > 0:10:48'quicklime, perhaps.'
0:10:48 > 0:10:51They'll need a few more hours, those, sir.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54HORSES APPROACHING
0:11:01 > 0:11:02CHILDREN SHOUTING
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Master George! Master Franky!
0:11:04 > 0:11:05Lady Etty!
0:11:05 > 0:11:07And Master Lenny. How are you, sir?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09Sir?
0:11:09 > 0:11:10Thank you.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12CHILD: Is it true that you were imprisoned by the king of...?
0:11:12 > 0:11:13Anything else, sir?
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Oh, no, you...carry on.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17I'll clean myself up.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19..is it true that he'd only let you go
0:11:19 > 0:11:21if you married his fattest daughter?
0:11:21 > 0:11:22Absolutely true, George,
0:11:22 > 0:11:25but don't you dare tell my wife.
0:11:25 > 0:11:26Dear Joseph.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Dearest Emma.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32Ah. Yes.
0:11:32 > 0:11:33Forgive the short notice.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35I believe you know Thomas Huxley?
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Only by reputation.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38He insisted on coming and I could not refuse him.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42It's a lie. I have a question for your esteemed reclusive husband
0:11:42 > 0:11:45and I didn't trust hooker to ask it for me.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46I see.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49Children, tell Papa his visitors are here.
0:11:49 > 0:11:50He already knows.
0:11:50 > 0:11:51He's hiding.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53Do come in, please.
0:11:53 > 0:11:54Can we play charge of the light brigade?
0:11:54 > 0:11:57You must be exhausted.
0:11:57 > 0:11:57Will you take tea?
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Hooker! My dear fellow.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03And Huxley. Do come in. Come in.
0:12:03 > 0:12:04Lead the charge, boys.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06And away we go.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28We're re-forming the Linnean Society.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30The committee will comprise of myself,
0:12:30 > 0:12:34Lyell, Hooker, yourself, of course, if you're game for it.
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Now that hooker and I finally have a bit of clout,
0:12:36 > 0:12:39we can start to reclaim science as a profession,
0:12:39 > 0:12:43wrest it away from the country parsons and beetle collectors.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Some of whom are dear friends of mine.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Your book will be our rallying point.
0:12:46 > 0:12:47No, it won't. There is no book.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48There's fragments,
0:12:48 > 0:12:50and they're not in any fit state to publish.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Nonsense! I've read your detailed abstract
0:12:52 > 0:12:54and the argument is hugely powerful.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Clear evidence of transformation
0:12:56 > 0:12:58over millions of years,
0:12:58 > 0:13:01from a free-swimming prawn to a shellfish stuck on a rock.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03That's my point, you see. You can't be entirely sure of that,
0:13:03 > 0:13:05and that's why I need more time. I need...
0:13:05 > 0:13:08- Mr. Darwin, sir.- Yes?
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Either you are being disingenuous
0:13:10 > 0:13:13or you do not fully understand your own theory.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15Evidently, what is true of the barnacle
0:13:15 > 0:13:18is true of all creatures, even humans.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20Clearly, the almighty can no longer claim
0:13:20 > 0:13:22to have authored every species in under a week.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24You've killed God, sir.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27You have killed God.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Or, to put it another way...
0:13:30 > 0:13:33And I for one say good riddance to the vindictive old bugger!
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Charles? Charles.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Oh, no, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39- Thomas, please... - Yes, I quite understand.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42It is time to write your book.
0:13:42 > 0:13:43Strike hard and fast
0:13:43 > 0:13:46with a blow that is utterly conclusive.
0:13:46 > 0:13:47Really, sir, you...
0:13:47 > 0:13:49You talk as if we're at war.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Yes. Science is at war with religion,
0:13:51 > 0:13:53And when we win,
0:13:53 > 0:13:56we'll finally be rid of those damned archbishops
0:13:56 > 0:13:58and their threats of eternal punishment.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01No, Mr Huxley.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03We live in a society,
0:14:03 > 0:14:07and it is a society bound together by the church.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09An improbable sort of bark, I grant you,
0:14:09 > 0:14:13but at least it floats. It floats.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16And you would what? You would...
0:14:16 > 0:14:18have us all rebuild, plank by plank,
0:14:18 > 0:14:20the very vessel in which we sail?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Oh, come, come, Charles!
0:14:22 > 0:14:26Did God's laws change your Fuegians?
0:14:26 > 0:14:29Was Jenny the ape any less personable
0:14:29 > 0:14:30for not being a person?
0:14:30 > 0:14:33Our behaviour, like our physical forms,
0:14:33 > 0:14:36evolves according to our needs.
0:14:36 > 0:14:37Your very own words, sir.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40And thus, in time,
0:14:40 > 0:14:43we lose those parts that are no longer required.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Like the appendix, the male nipple,
0:14:46 > 0:14:48and finally, thank Christ,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51our belief in an utterly redundant almighty.
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Mr Hooker.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05I...implore you,
0:15:05 > 0:15:07please do not push him.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09No one can push Charles.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11You know how fixed he is.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Bit of a barnacle himself, really.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Yes. And if you prise him from his rock, he will die.
0:15:17 > 0:15:22Come on, Hooker. It'll be dark soon.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37Ah. So, what did she say to you?
0:15:37 > 0:15:39She said it was killing him.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Yes. Mighty slow death,
0:15:44 > 0:15:47considering the length of time he's sat on this stuff.
0:15:47 > 0:15:48We shall all be dead and buried ourselves
0:15:48 > 0:15:50if he takes much longer.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Yes. Since his girl died,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55one has to admit...
0:15:55 > 0:15:57..he's not the man he was.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06VOMITING
0:16:54 > 0:16:57When are you going to be done with those stinky old barnacles?
0:16:57 > 0:17:01Well, I've been chasing this little crustacean
0:17:01 > 0:17:03in all of its evolutionary forms
0:17:03 > 0:17:06over 30 million years.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Now, 8 years doesn't seem a very long time
0:17:08 > 0:17:09to achieve that, does it?
0:17:09 > 0:17:13What does "procrastinating" mean?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Oh, I think you know very well what it means, Annie.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21It means putting things off. Why?
0:17:21 > 0:17:24That's what Mr Hooker thinks you're doing.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Does he, indeed?
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Is it because of Mama or what's in that box?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Both.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40I should probably just burn the lot.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42You can't. I'm in it.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Don't be absurd, Annie. Of course you're not in it.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46- What do you mean? - When I was a baby, you said.
0:17:48 > 0:17:49Oh, that.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53The natural history of babies.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57Yes, that's right.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59ANNIE CRIES Look at my finger.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Oh, you're so strong.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05You're so strong.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08PIANO PLAYS
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Here. Annie.
0:18:24 > 0:18:29Prrp! Prrp! Prrp-prrp-prrp-prrp!
0:18:29 > 0:18:32I think that will not help her sleep.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34I'm sure you're probably right.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38ANNIE COOS Who's that?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Who is that? Is that you?
0:18:40 > 0:18:42Arrr! Arr! Arr! Arr!
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Rrahhrrr!
0:18:45 > 0:18:46ANNIE CRIES Ahrrrr!
0:18:46 > 0:18:49Oh, sweetheart! No, I'm so sorry!
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Oh, what a mean old papa you have!
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Oh, sweetheart!
0:18:55 > 0:18:59Oh, what a mean old papa you have.
0:18:59 > 0:19:00What a mean old...
0:19:00 > 0:19:03What a mean old man you have.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Oh, I'm so sorry.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07I'm so sorry.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09"6 weeks: gurgles.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11"Tries to suck.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13"Holds tight to my finger.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15"Perceives bosom when 3 or 4 inches from it."
0:19:15 > 0:19:17I should add that she's musical.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19I hope you do not plan to treat all our children
0:19:19 > 0:19:22as little specimens of the ape genus,
0:19:22 > 0:19:25to be included in your experiments.
0:19:25 > 0:19:26All of our children?
0:19:26 > 0:19:29You mean you want more?
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Oh, sorry. I assumed.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33No, no, if the idea doesn't appeal,
0:19:33 > 0:19:34then we won't have any more children.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36Darling, darling, darling.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39I have plans to breed an entire army of them.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Look at that.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45That's called the waltz.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48CHILDREN LAUGH
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Careful, now! Not too far ahead.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56- Make yourself useful, Hooker. - As ever, Charles.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Stay away from that water!
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Fear not, Brodie, I have them in my sights.
0:20:00 > 0:20:01Children!
0:20:02 > 0:20:06Now, which of the four of you
0:20:06 > 0:20:08would be the first who would like to learn
0:20:08 > 0:20:09how to hook a worm?
0:20:09 > 0:20:10Me! Me!
0:20:10 > 0:20:12"A little further on,
0:20:12 > 0:20:14"the leading highlander snuffed the wind
0:20:14 > 0:20:16"like a setting spaniel,
0:20:16 > 0:20:18"and then made a signal to his party
0:20:18 > 0:20:20"again to halt.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22"He stooped down upon all fours,
0:20:22 > 0:20:23"wrapped up in his plaids..."
0:20:23 > 0:20:24Look what I found, Mama.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Look at that.
0:20:26 > 0:20:27What shall I feed it?
0:20:27 > 0:20:28Let's ask Reverend Innes.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31Oh, um...
0:20:31 > 0:20:33A leaf, I should think.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Necrophorus humator, isn't he, Charles?
0:20:36 > 0:20:37Rather a splendid specimen.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Yes, he is. He's a...
0:20:40 > 0:20:41carnivore. He eats...
0:20:41 > 0:20:44carrion and insects.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Boys! We need carrion and insects!
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Look, here's a worm, here's a worm!
0:20:50 > 0:20:51Ooh! An earwig! Squish it!
0:20:51 > 0:20:54No, don't kill it.
0:20:54 > 0:20:55I know that expression.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57He's dreaming of his glory days
0:20:57 > 0:20:59when he was unencumbered with wife and family,
0:20:59 > 0:21:03free to wander the planet.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Actually, I was...
0:21:05 > 0:21:07I was remembering how the tropical seas
0:21:07 > 0:21:08teemed with living particles
0:21:08 > 0:21:10that seemed to surround the "beagle"
0:21:10 > 0:21:12with a luminous glow
0:21:12 > 0:21:15and leave a glistening pathway through the night.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36Puzzling.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40So much beauty for so little purpose.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42So little purpose?
0:21:42 > 0:21:44They were helping to light the ship's way.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Well said. Exactly.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50John, are you familiar with the works of Thomas Malthus?
0:21:50 > 0:21:52He married his first cousin, didn't he?
0:21:52 > 0:21:53So did I.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57Yes, but I wasn't suggesting that...
0:21:57 > 0:22:00Of course you weren't.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02Anyway, Thomas Malthus calculated
0:22:02 > 0:22:05that if, well, if every trout, say,
0:22:05 > 0:22:07had 100 or so offspring and so on and so forth
0:22:07 > 0:22:08throughout the generations
0:22:08 > 0:22:10that we'd be knee-deep in trout
0:22:10 > 0:22:13in just a few decades.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15How would you respond to that?
0:22:15 > 0:22:16I'd respond by saying
0:22:16 > 0:22:19that most of the eggs are destroyed or eaten
0:22:19 > 0:22:21so that the numbers remain stable.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23That's the beauty of God's plan.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25It doesn't strike you as an exceedingly wasteful plan,
0:22:25 > 0:22:29these myriad lives created only to be immediately extinguished?
0:22:29 > 0:22:31- They're providing food for others.- Cheese and cucumber?
0:22:31 > 0:22:33Thousands, John, thousands die
0:22:33 > 0:22:35so that only a few may live.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Is not the general sum total of happiness
0:22:37 > 0:22:39in some sort of massive deficit?
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Charles, it is really not my duty
0:22:41 > 0:22:43to speculate on the mind of God,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46but it does seem to me that nature is at peace.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Well, there is another view.
0:22:49 > 0:22:53That all of nature is a battlefield.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57Remind me where I read that.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Mm. This is very good.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02Good. Shall I continue?
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Mm, please do.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06"In a short time, he returned
0:23:06 > 0:23:08"and dismissed his attendants,
0:23:08 > 0:23:09"excepting one,
0:23:09 > 0:23:13"and intimating to Waverley that he must..."
0:23:13 > 0:23:15VOICES FADE
0:23:24 > 0:23:26BUZZING
0:23:38 > 0:23:42SQUAWKING
0:23:58 > 0:24:00CHIRPING
0:24:45 > 0:24:48"Now, thought Christian,
0:24:48 > 0:24:50"what shall I do?
0:24:50 > 0:24:53"And ever and anon the flames and smoke
0:24:53 > 0:24:55"would come out in such abundance,
0:24:55 > 0:24:57"with sparks and hideous noises
0:24:57 > 0:25:00"that Christian was forced to put up his sword
0:25:00 > 0:25:02"and betake himself to another weapon
0:25:02 > 0:25:06"called all prayer."
0:25:06 > 0:25:09Let us stop there.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Is Papa not coming to kiss us good night?
0:25:11 > 0:25:14He is a little unwell from working.
0:25:14 > 0:25:15Maybe tomorrow.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18You said that last night.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22I think when Annie died, he stopped loving us.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24No, Etty.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26He's just a little bit tired
0:25:26 > 0:25:29and a little bit busy.
0:25:39 > 0:25:40Good night, darling.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11What are you doing, Annie?
0:26:11 > 0:26:13I'm making you beautiful.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17But I need to think.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22What are you so scared of?
0:26:25 > 0:26:28It's only a theory.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30No, they're right.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33It changes everything.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36Suppose the whole world
0:26:36 > 0:26:39stopped believing that God had any sort of plan for us.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Nothing mattered.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Not love, nor trust.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Not faith, not honour.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Only brute survival.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Apart from anything else,
0:26:55 > 0:26:56it would break your mother's heart.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Hearts can't break, silly.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00You told me that.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Breathe in, Papa.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09Breathe out.
0:27:12 > 0:27:13Tell me a story.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16All right. What about?
0:27:16 > 0:27:19About Jenny.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22It's late. I have no time.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Please?
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Why Jenny? It's so sad.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29I like sad stories.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35Once upon a time,
0:27:35 > 0:27:38there was a family of orangutans
0:27:38 > 0:27:41living in the deepest jungles of Borneo.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52Their eldest daughter was the most loving,
0:27:52 > 0:27:54the most caring,
0:27:54 > 0:27:57and the most trusting orang of all.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03But she was also the most...
0:28:03 > 0:28:05Intelligent.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Well, I was going to say inquisitive.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Did I neglect to mention
0:28:11 > 0:28:16she was not always the most obedient of creatures?
0:29:06 > 0:29:09By the time she realised her danger,
0:29:09 > 0:29:10it was too late.
0:29:10 > 0:29:14SHOUTING
0:29:16 > 0:29:19They put her in a bag and they carried her off...
0:29:19 > 0:29:21Much to her loving parents' despair.
0:29:21 > 0:29:25So sorry. Much to her loving parents' despair, of course.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27And the Dayaks bundled her into a cage
0:29:27 > 0:29:31and set off to sell her down the river.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34They sold her to a trader
0:29:34 > 0:29:38for thruppence, three farthings, and he put her in a bigger cage
0:29:38 > 0:29:42and sold her to London Zoo for 300 guineas.
0:29:48 > 0:29:50She was the first orangutan
0:29:50 > 0:29:53that anyone had ever seen in England.
0:29:53 > 0:29:55Everyone peered at Jenny,
0:29:55 > 0:29:57And Jenny peered back,
0:29:57 > 0:30:02and she marvelled at what strange creatures they all were.
0:30:02 > 0:30:05The curators of the zoo, they...
0:30:05 > 0:30:08They cleaned her up.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11Made her presentable
0:30:11 > 0:30:14for polite society.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19Which was when I was first introduced to her.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47BELL JANGLES
0:30:47 > 0:30:49What is that, Jenny?
0:31:49 > 0:31:52HARMONICA PLAYS
0:31:52 > 0:31:54Oh, come on!
0:32:10 > 0:32:13RANDOM NOTES
0:32:13 > 0:32:15Bravo!
0:32:16 > 0:32:19When eventually it came time to say goodbye,
0:32:19 > 0:32:23she grew quite downcast and refused to shake my hand.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25Finally, she took it,
0:32:25 > 0:32:27but only after I'd made her a promise
0:32:27 > 0:32:29I was never able to keep,
0:32:29 > 0:32:33that I would visit her again very soon.
0:32:35 > 0:32:36Go on. Tell me about the bit
0:32:36 > 0:32:39where she gets sick and dies.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42Why do you want to hear that bit?
0:32:42 > 0:32:45I like it. It makes me cry.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11DOOR OPENS
0:33:18 > 0:33:20Huxley is of the opinion
0:33:20 > 0:33:22that I should write and be done with it.
0:33:22 > 0:33:26Says it's a question of moral courage, or...
0:33:26 > 0:33:28Or rather my lack of it.
0:33:30 > 0:33:32Did you tell him about your health?
0:33:32 > 0:33:35His theory is that I'm making myself ill
0:33:35 > 0:33:38by holding back and...
0:33:38 > 0:33:41that I should lance the boil, so to speak.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44Thank the Lord he's no longer a surgeon.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47I have concluded that he's right.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51You know, bite the gag.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54Speed is everything.
0:33:54 > 0:33:58It will all be over in a matter of months.
0:33:58 > 0:34:01It is not mere months...
0:34:01 > 0:34:03nor even years nor decades
0:34:03 > 0:34:05that concern me, Charles.
0:34:08 > 0:34:15Do you really care so little for your immortal soul?
0:34:15 > 0:34:18Charles, do you not care
0:34:18 > 0:34:21that you may never pass through the gates of heaven
0:34:21 > 0:34:24and that you and I may be separated for all eternity?
0:34:24 > 0:34:27Of course I care. Of course I do.
0:34:28 > 0:34:32What do you think has kept me in limbo all these years?
0:34:32 > 0:34:35I am a neuter bee.
0:34:37 > 0:34:40I'm a scientist, and I dare not study
0:34:40 > 0:34:42for the fear of seeing more clearly
0:34:42 > 0:34:45what is already as plain as day to me.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50Do you not think that's torture enough?
0:34:50 > 0:34:54I think you are at war with God, Charles.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57We both know it is a battle you cannot win.
0:35:10 > 0:35:14CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER
0:35:15 > 0:35:18- Throw me the ball! - No, you cheated!
0:35:18 > 0:35:20- Curse you, woman! - You cheated!
0:35:20 > 0:35:22Etty!
0:35:27 > 0:35:28Etty, Etty, Etty!
0:35:33 > 0:35:34Aah! Aah!
0:35:51 > 0:35:54Were you never married, Brodie?
0:35:54 > 0:35:56Myself? No.
0:35:56 > 0:35:58He went off to Australia.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01Missed me chance.
0:36:01 > 0:36:04I shall never marry.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06I know how men give you babies.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09I sincerely hope you do not, Annie Darwin!
0:36:12 > 0:36:14Everybody step back and look at the rock.
0:36:14 > 0:36:16If you look at it, really look at it,
0:36:16 > 0:36:18it can take us back through time.
0:36:18 > 0:36:21See these greyish, muddy layers?
0:36:21 > 0:36:22They were brought here
0:36:22 > 0:36:25by quiet, patient, gentle rivers,
0:36:25 > 0:36:28whereas these dramatic sandstone deposits
0:36:28 > 0:36:31are telling us of huge storms,
0:36:31 > 0:36:34storms that came through here millions of years ago
0:36:34 > 0:36:36When Aunt Sarah was just a little girl
0:36:36 > 0:36:40and Down Village was a swamp full of dinosaurs.
0:36:40 > 0:36:41What's a dinosaur?
0:36:41 > 0:36:43Well, it's a lizard...
0:36:43 > 0:36:44Professor Owen invented them.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46Well, he didn't exactly invent them.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48They weren't real!
0:36:48 > 0:36:49Yes, they were.
0:36:49 > 0:36:51Annie, put some clothes on! You're going blue.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54Look what I found! Spiny starfish!
0:36:54 > 0:36:56Don't tell me.
0:36:56 > 0:36:58Marthasterias gacialis, look!
0:36:58 > 0:37:00Glacialis.
0:37:00 > 0:37:04Whoo! Whoo!
0:37:07 > 0:37:09I am Fuegian!
0:37:13 > 0:37:16Aah!
0:37:16 > 0:37:19I'm making custard!
0:37:19 > 0:37:21Aah!
0:37:26 > 0:37:28He did! He told me!
0:37:28 > 0:37:31It is not fair to the other children, nor to Annie herself,
0:37:31 > 0:37:35that her head be filled with these ideas.
0:37:35 > 0:37:36But Daddy said!
0:37:36 > 0:37:38I will leave you to deal with this.
0:37:38 > 0:37:39He did! He told me!
0:37:39 > 0:37:41- Hush, I said.- Goodbye, Annie.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43What happened?
0:37:43 > 0:37:45Nothing.
0:37:45 > 0:37:48Your knees. What happened to your knees?
0:37:48 > 0:37:50Reverend Innes had to have words with her.
0:37:50 > 0:37:53Words are all very well. I'm asking what happened to her knees.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55Reverend Innes sent me to the corner
0:37:55 > 0:37:56and made me kneel on rock salt.
0:37:59 > 0:38:01Why?
0:38:01 > 0:38:04I said there were dinosaurs, and he said there weren't.
0:38:04 > 0:38:05But there were, cos you found them with Professor Owen!
0:38:05 > 0:38:07Where's my coat?
0:38:07 > 0:38:09Brodie, take her to the kitchen and find her something nice.
0:38:09 > 0:38:11Where's my coat?!
0:38:12 > 0:38:14He told her to kneel until she repented,
0:38:14 > 0:38:17so the marks are a result of her own stubbornness.
0:38:17 > 0:38:18She contradicted him repeatedly.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21Listen to yourself! Emma!
0:38:21 > 0:38:23How dare he torture our children
0:38:23 > 0:38:25for expressing the plain and simple truth!
0:38:25 > 0:38:26It is not the truth as he sees it.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28Well, damn how he sees it!
0:38:31 > 0:38:35Must our children be revolutionaries at 9 years of age?
0:38:35 > 0:38:38He is teaching them to deny the evidence of their own senses.
0:38:38 > 0:38:40No more than I have told them every night at bedtime.
0:38:40 > 0:38:43It is the instruction of our parents and our grandparents.
0:38:43 > 0:38:46It's what all of the village believe, or try to.
0:38:46 > 0:38:50Charles, Reverend Innes is a dear friend and neighbour.
0:38:50 > 0:38:55Please, do not set yourself against him.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59I beg you.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09For you.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12Not for him.
0:39:15 > 0:39:19# All things bright and beautiful
0:39:19 > 0:39:23# All creatures great and small
0:39:23 > 0:39:27# All things wise and wonderful
0:39:27 > 0:39:34# The Lord God made them all. #
0:39:34 > 0:39:35Let us pray.
0:39:43 > 0:39:46Lord God,
0:39:46 > 0:39:50we know the world is governed by thy plan,
0:39:50 > 0:39:54extending to the merest creatures thou hast made,
0:39:54 > 0:39:56such that even a sparrow
0:39:56 > 0:39:59falls not to the ground without thy will.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04Teach us that all misfortune,
0:40:04 > 0:40:07all sickness and death,
0:40:07 > 0:40:09all the trials and miseries
0:40:09 > 0:40:13of which we daily complain
0:40:13 > 0:40:16are intended for our good,
0:40:16 > 0:40:20being not the whims of an uncaring universe,
0:40:20 > 0:40:24but the corrections of a wise
0:40:24 > 0:40:26and affectionate parent.
0:40:28 > 0:40:30Teach us this,
0:40:30 > 0:40:33in thy name, oh Lord.
0:40:33 > 0:40:34Amen.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36ALL: Amen.
0:40:38 > 0:40:42The lesson today is taken from the book of genesis,
0:40:42 > 0:40:44Chapter one, verses 26 to 30.
0:40:44 > 0:40:46Sorry.
0:40:46 > 0:40:47Excuse me. I'm so sorry.
0:40:47 > 0:40:50"And god said..."
0:40:50 > 0:40:51Excuse me.
0:40:51 > 0:40:52.."Let us make man in our image,
0:40:52 > 0:40:54"after our likeness.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56"And let them have dominion
0:40:56 > 0:40:58"over the fish of the sea,
0:40:58 > 0:41:00"and over the fowl of the air,
0:41:00 > 0:41:02"and over all the cattle and over all the Earth,
0:41:02 > 0:41:04"and over every creeping thing
0:41:04 > 0:41:07"that creepeth upon the earth."
0:41:13 > 0:41:15'Dearest Emma,
0:41:15 > 0:41:19'Last night you said I was at war with God,
0:41:19 > 0:41:21'But truly, it is nothing so dramatic as a war.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24'Just a silent struggle with myself,
0:41:24 > 0:41:27Extended over a thousand afternoons.
0:41:27 > 0:41:29'The loss of religious faith
0:41:29 > 0:41:31'is a slow and fragile process,
0:41:31 > 0:41:34'like the raising of continents.
0:41:34 > 0:41:36'What can I say to you,
0:41:36 > 0:41:39'except that the process now seems complete?'
0:42:17 > 0:42:21BIRD CAWS
0:42:55 > 0:42:57TWIG SNAPS
0:43:05 > 0:43:07(What are we looking at?)
0:43:07 > 0:43:09(See the rabbit?)
0:43:18 > 0:43:21(Stay very still.)
0:43:36 > 0:43:39SCREECHING
0:43:39 > 0:43:43Make it stop. Quickly, Daddy, make it stop. Quickly!
0:43:43 > 0:43:44Etty. Etty, darling.
0:43:44 > 0:43:47- Daddy, make it stop! - Darling girl.
0:43:47 > 0:43:49SOBS Dear girl!
0:43:49 > 0:43:51Dear sweet girl.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53It's not fair!
0:43:53 > 0:43:56It's not fair!
0:43:56 > 0:43:58I'm sorry.
0:43:58 > 0:43:59Not fair.
0:43:59 > 0:44:00It's not fair.
0:44:00 > 0:44:04Etty, it has to be that way.
0:44:04 > 0:44:07The fox has to eat the rabbit,
0:44:07 > 0:44:10otherwise the fox's babies will die.
0:44:11 > 0:44:13It's the balance of things.
0:44:16 > 0:44:19Come on, little duck, give us a smile.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27CHILDREN CHATTER, PIANO PLAYS
0:44:36 > 0:44:39'Dear Hooker,
0:44:39 > 0:44:41I am finally decided.
0:44:41 > 0:44:44I think I owe it to my children
0:44:44 > 0:44:46to at least have the courage of my own convictions.
0:44:46 > 0:44:49My title will be
0:44:49 > 0:44:51'"On the origin of species",
0:44:51 > 0:44:55'and I shall endeavour to keep God out of it,
0:44:55 > 0:45:00'Although no doubt he will see it as a personal attack.
0:45:02 > 0:45:05'Nothing is easier than to admit the truth
0:45:05 > 0:45:07'of the universal struggle for life.
0:45:07 > 0:45:09'Or more difficult
0:45:09 > 0:45:12'than to constantly bear this in mind.
0:45:12 > 0:45:14'I shall devote my first chapter
0:45:14 > 0:45:17'to variations under domestication,
0:45:17 > 0:45:18'wherein we will see
0:45:18 > 0:45:22'how great is the power of man
0:45:22 > 0:45:24'in accumulating slight variations.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26'I will then pass on to see how natural selection
0:45:26 > 0:45:29'causes much extinction...
0:45:29 > 0:45:32'of the less-improved forms of life.'
0:45:52 > 0:45:54Charles?
0:45:55 > 0:45:57Yes?
0:45:57 > 0:46:00What is Lewis making?
0:46:00 > 0:46:02He's making a water tower
0:46:02 > 0:46:06like the one they have at Malvern.
0:46:06 > 0:46:07The writing's not been going well,
0:46:07 > 0:46:10so I thought I might try my own water cure.
0:46:10 > 0:46:13You're still angry with me.
0:46:14 > 0:46:18I can always tell by your playing.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Not angry. Sad.
0:47:15 > 0:47:17Pull!
0:47:18 > 0:47:20'The face of nature
0:47:20 > 0:47:24'may be compared to a yielding surface
0:47:24 > 0:47:26'with 10,000 sharp wedges packed close together
0:47:26 > 0:47:29'and then driven inwards by incessant blows,
0:47:29 > 0:47:31'sometimes one wedge being struck
0:47:31 > 0:47:32'and then another with great force.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34'The mind cannot possibly grasp the full meaning
0:47:34 > 0:47:38'of the term "a hundred million years."
0:47:38 > 0:47:40'It cannot add up and perceive the full effects
0:47:40 > 0:47:42'of many slight variations.
0:47:42 > 0:47:45'We forget how largely these songsters
0:47:45 > 0:47:47'or their eggs or their nestlings
0:47:47 > 0:47:49'are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52'Thus, over tens of thousands of generations,
0:47:52 > 0:47:55'tiny variations accumulate, becoming...
0:47:55 > 0:47:58THOUGHTS OVERLAP 'Organs change their very function.
0:47:58 > 0:48:01'The female sexual organ becomes a cement gland.
0:48:01 > 0:48:03'Limbs become blind feelers
0:48:03 > 0:48:06'or fall away entirely.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09'What was once a free-swimming creature
0:48:09 > 0:48:13'finds itself glued by its head to a rock,
0:48:13 > 0:48:15'blindly flailing for food.'
0:48:15 > 0:48:17Papa!
0:48:17 > 0:48:19GASPS
0:48:59 > 0:49:02Why is sweating supposed to be good for you?
0:49:02 > 0:49:06Because it gets rid of the poisons in your blood.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09I thought you didn't believe in sin.
0:49:09 > 0:49:11I don't.
0:49:11 > 0:49:14Not in the way Reverend Innes understands it, anyway.
0:49:14 > 0:49:17Then why are you afraid of going to hell?
0:49:17 > 0:49:19I'm not.
0:49:19 > 0:49:20Yes, you are.
0:49:20 > 0:49:21You think you deserve it.
0:49:21 > 0:49:24No, I don't. Of course I don't.
0:49:24 > 0:49:26What could possibly make you think that?
0:49:26 > 0:49:29Because you think you should never have had me.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34Oh, for God's sake, girl.
0:49:34 > 0:49:37Oh, I don't have to listen to this nonsense.
0:49:37 > 0:49:40You're cruel. You're just being cruel.
0:49:40 > 0:49:43The girl's gone mad.
0:49:43 > 0:49:45That's why you won't talk to Mama anymore.
0:49:45 > 0:49:47Enough of this. Enough of it.
0:49:47 > 0:49:49I talk to her. Of course I talk to her.
0:49:49 > 0:49:50Just not the important things. What about me?
0:49:50 > 0:49:53Why must everything always be about you?
0:49:53 > 0:49:54Because that's what you won't talk to her about.
0:49:54 > 0:49:56What?
0:49:56 > 0:49:59About how you think you're responsible.
0:50:00 > 0:50:01Get out of here.
0:50:04 > 0:50:08You get out of here. Get out of here.
0:50:08 > 0:50:11You said honesty was the most important thing in the world.
0:50:11 > 0:50:13If you won't be honest, then I won't come again.
0:50:13 > 0:50:14And it'll serve you right!
0:50:14 > 0:50:17Get out! Please, get out!
0:50:17 > 0:50:19Get out!
0:50:29 > 0:50:32You have not been well for months now.
0:50:32 > 0:50:34I'll be fine. I'm fine.
0:50:35 > 0:50:37Will you talk to John Innes?
0:50:37 > 0:50:39What about?
0:50:39 > 0:50:42Whatever it is that ails you.
0:50:42 > 0:50:45What is he now, exactly? What is he? He's a physician, is he?
0:50:45 > 0:50:48Yes. A physician of souls, anyway.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52Talk to him as a friend.
0:50:52 > 0:50:55You used to be such friends.
0:50:57 > 0:50:59I think he can help you.
0:51:03 > 0:51:05INDISTINCT CONVERSATION
0:51:33 > 0:51:36Mr. Darwin! Excuse me.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38Goodman coming through. Ah, Mr Darwin.
0:51:38 > 0:51:40I was just explaining to Mr Goodman here
0:51:40 > 0:51:42about your interest in breeding.
0:51:42 > 0:51:43Oh, good. Excellent.
0:51:43 > 0:51:46Mr Goodman here is our foremost pigeon fancier
0:51:46 > 0:51:48in all of southern England.
0:51:48 > 0:51:50I swear, he can give you any beak or plumage
0:51:50 > 0:51:52within four generations.
0:51:52 > 0:51:54Well, what's your secret, Mr Goodman?
0:51:54 > 0:51:56The truth to tell, I interbreed them.
0:51:56 > 0:51:59Brother and sister, cousin with cousin.
0:51:59 > 0:52:00It's the fastest way to alter the strain.
0:52:00 > 0:52:03Of course, there's a danger that you'll weaken it,
0:52:03 > 0:52:06But a gentleman like yourself,
0:52:06 > 0:52:09I'm sure you can afford to lose a few chicks, eh?
0:52:09 > 0:52:11LAUGHTER
0:52:11 > 0:52:14Now, plenty of rest, young lady.
0:52:14 > 0:52:16Down you go.
0:52:16 > 0:52:17Keep her warm.
0:52:17 > 0:52:19Thank you, doctor.
0:52:19 > 0:52:20Goodbye, Annie.
0:52:20 > 0:52:22Goodbye.
0:52:25 > 0:52:29Unfortunately, if we let them run wild on the beach,
0:52:29 > 0:52:32We have to expect the consequences, do we not, Mrs Darwin?
0:52:32 > 0:52:34So, increase the calomel, I think, twice.
0:52:34 > 0:52:36No, I will not give her any more of it.
0:52:36 > 0:52:37Why ever not?
0:52:37 > 0:52:38She's been taking it for weeks.
0:52:38 > 0:52:40Can you not see she's not getting any...
0:52:40 > 0:52:41It is nothing but chloride of mercury.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43I have prescribed it often in babies.
0:52:43 > 0:52:45Not to any of mine you haven't.
0:52:45 > 0:52:46If she would submit to being bled, Charles...
0:52:46 > 0:52:49Please, no.
0:52:49 > 0:52:50Daddy? >
0:52:50 > 0:52:52I will write to Dr Gully again.
0:52:52 > 0:52:53The hydrotherapist?
0:52:53 > 0:52:56Personally, I have found his treatments very effective.
0:52:56 > 0:52:57No matter that they defy all sense of logic?
0:52:57 > 0:52:59Well, logic isn't everything, Henry.
0:52:59 > 0:53:02Clearly not.
0:53:02 > 0:53:04I'll see myself out. Good day, madam.
0:53:04 > 0:53:05Good day.
0:53:10 > 0:53:11I should take her to Malvern.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13To be treated twice daily as I was.
0:53:13 > 0:53:15It is better she's here. She needs her family.
0:53:15 > 0:53:17She needs love and rest.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20She'll get well.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25One more week.
0:53:25 > 0:53:27We'll watch her for one more week.
0:53:27 > 0:53:29All right?
0:53:29 > 0:53:31Thank you.
0:54:03 > 0:54:04INDISTINCT CRY
0:54:04 > 0:54:07- MUFFLED:- Daddy, help!
0:54:13 > 0:54:18Help! Help!
0:54:48 > 0:54:51CHIRPING
0:55:02 > 0:55:06SHRIEKING
0:55:08 > 0:55:10Aah!
0:55:34 > 0:55:37Post for you, sir.
0:55:37 > 0:55:40This one's from the spice islands.
0:56:13 > 0:56:15Charles!
0:56:15 > 0:56:18Charles, my old friend, there you are.
0:56:18 > 0:56:21May I join you?
0:56:21 > 0:56:24Yes. Yes, of course.
0:56:29 > 0:56:31Mrs Darwin has told me
0:56:31 > 0:56:34about the book you are writing.
0:56:34 > 0:56:37Oh, no, no, not anymore. Thank goodness.
0:56:37 > 0:56:39You mean you finished it?
0:56:39 > 0:56:40It's been finished for me, actually.
0:56:40 > 0:56:43A Mr Alfred Russel Wallace
0:56:43 > 0:56:45has arrived independently
0:56:45 > 0:56:48at exactly the same opinion.
0:56:48 > 0:56:52Expressed in a... LAUGHS
0:56:52 > 0:56:55..in a mere 20 pages.
0:56:55 > 0:56:58Now, there's brevity for you.
0:56:58 > 0:57:02I had covered 250 so far and come to a dead end,
0:57:02 > 0:57:06so whilst having wasted 20 years
0:57:06 > 0:57:09on the project, I am at least rid of it.
0:57:11 > 0:57:12Well...
0:57:15 > 0:57:18Well...
0:57:18 > 0:57:21The Lord moves in mysterious ways.
0:57:23 > 0:57:26Hmm, yes, he does, doesn't he?
0:57:28 > 0:57:30You know, I was remarking only the other day
0:57:30 > 0:57:33how he has endowed us
0:57:33 > 0:57:34in all of his blessed generosity
0:57:34 > 0:57:38with not one but 900 species of intestinal worm,
0:57:38 > 0:57:40each with its own unique method
0:57:40 > 0:57:43of infiltrating the mucosa and burrowing through
0:57:43 > 0:57:44to the bloodstream.
0:57:44 > 0:57:48And on the love that he shows for butterflies
0:57:48 > 0:57:50by inventing a wasp that lays its eggs
0:57:50 > 0:57:53inside the living flesh of caterpillars.
0:57:53 > 0:57:55I have said on many previous occasions,
0:57:55 > 0:57:57it is not for us to speculate at his reason.
0:57:57 > 0:57:59Oh, no, we can leave that to Mr Wallace.
0:57:59 > 0:58:04Shall I advise him to stay abroad, do you think?
0:58:04 > 0:58:07With his opinions, if he shows his face around here,
0:58:07 > 0:58:10he may be required to kneel on rock salt.
0:58:24 > 0:58:27I always valued our friendship.
0:58:29 > 0:58:33Until now, I regarded you as one of those rare mortals
0:58:33 > 0:58:35with whom one could disagree
0:58:35 > 0:58:38and yet feel no shade of animosity.
0:58:40 > 0:58:46Sadly, that feeling is no longer reciprocated.
0:59:04 > 0:59:05What?
0:59:08 > 0:59:10I'm forestalled by Wallace.
0:59:10 > 0:59:13What have I done? What?
0:59:13 > 0:59:14What possible...what possible reason
0:59:14 > 0:59:18could you have to be angry at me?
0:59:20 > 0:59:24Annie? Annie? Annie!
0:59:24 > 0:59:26Come here! Come back here!
0:59:26 > 0:59:28You come back here now!
0:59:29 > 0:59:30I am your father!
0:59:30 > 0:59:32You come back here!
0:59:32 > 0:59:34What?
0:59:34 > 0:59:36What did I do?
0:59:36 > 0:59:39What did I do to you? What?
0:59:39 > 0:59:43Annie! Come here! Come back here!
0:59:43 > 0:59:46What did I do to you? Come here!
0:59:46 > 0:59:47Annie, please!
0:59:47 > 0:59:49Come here, Annie! Annie!
0:59:49 > 0:59:51Come here!
1:00:06 > 1:00:07Get rid of them.
1:00:09 > 1:00:12Get rid of all of them.
1:00:15 > 1:00:18Come on. Get out!
1:00:18 > 1:00:20Get out!
1:00:20 > 1:00:23Go! Come on!
1:00:23 > 1:00:26Get out! Go!
1:00:26 > 1:00:27Go!
1:00:33 > 1:00:36Mr Darwin! Mr Darwin!
1:00:36 > 1:00:39Mr Darwin, sir!
1:00:39 > 1:00:41Mr Darwin!
1:00:41 > 1:00:44I'll have Lewis dismantle it, sir.
1:00:44 > 1:00:45Now, Mr Darwin,
1:00:45 > 1:00:48I'll send for Dr Holland.
1:00:48 > 1:00:52God, no.
1:00:52 > 1:00:54God damn it.
1:00:54 > 1:00:58Damn it all to hell.
1:00:58 > 1:01:00Mr Darwin?
1:01:03 > 1:01:04Help me here! Help me here!
1:01:04 > 1:01:07Help me!
1:01:12 > 1:01:15So, increase the calomel to twice a day.
1:01:15 > 1:01:17Yes, of course.
1:01:17 > 1:01:19Keep him warm, plenty of rest...
1:01:30 > 1:01:32I think Papa's going to die, too.
1:01:34 > 1:01:36FLIES BUZZING
1:01:36 > 1:01:39FOOTSTEPS
1:01:51 > 1:01:54Oh. Hello, Hooker.
1:01:54 > 1:01:56Hello.
1:01:56 > 1:01:59Still talking. That's good.
1:01:59 > 1:02:01Word had reached London you'd suffered an apoplectic stroke.
1:02:01 > 1:02:04Your enemies are celebrating at the Athenaeum.
1:02:04 > 1:02:06I have no enemies.
1:02:10 > 1:02:13- This is the Wallace letter? - Yes.
1:02:13 > 1:02:16Well, he has 20 pages.
1:02:16 > 1:02:19You have a whole book, or at least half of one.
1:02:19 > 1:02:22I intend to extract the other, even if it kills us both.
1:02:22 > 1:02:24Have you been talking to Huxley again?
1:02:24 > 1:02:25No. If I'd been talking to Huxley,
1:02:25 > 1:02:27he'd be here himself with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
1:02:27 > 1:02:29- Now, up you come. - No, Joseph, I cannot.
1:02:29 > 1:02:31Honestly, I know not what ails me,
1:02:31 > 1:02:32but it's more than I can endure.
1:02:32 > 1:02:34Bosh! You have had this illness
1:02:34 > 1:02:36as long as I have known you.
1:02:36 > 1:02:37True, it's worse in times of overwork,
1:02:37 > 1:02:40but it has nothing to do whatsoever with your soul,
1:02:40 > 1:02:41wherever that resides now.
1:02:41 > 1:02:42Go and get yourself treated.
1:02:42 > 1:02:44I cannot.
1:02:44 > 1:02:46Believe me, you do have enemies.
1:02:46 > 1:02:48And I'll bet that half the nation would cheerfully see you
1:02:48 > 1:02:50burnt at the stake if they knew what you were writing,
1:02:50 > 1:02:52but you have friends, too,
1:02:52 > 1:02:54and all of us are fighting the same battle.
1:02:54 > 1:02:57And we can win this in our lifetimes.
1:02:57 > 1:02:58We have to win this.
1:02:58 > 1:03:00I implore you, go to Malvern,
1:03:00 > 1:03:02take your blessed water cure,
1:03:02 > 1:03:04come back, and win it for us.
1:03:29 > 1:03:30She's nearly ready.
1:03:30 > 1:03:33Good. Thank you. Christopher, move those quickly, please.
1:03:33 > 1:03:35I want to come with you.
1:03:35 > 1:03:36- No, Emma.- Malvern's not so far.
1:03:36 > 1:03:39Parslow! Please! It's two days by coach and train.
1:03:39 > 1:03:40If the baby comes early, who will look after you?
1:03:40 > 1:03:42They have doctors up there.
1:03:42 > 1:03:43Your job is here with the children.
1:03:43 > 1:03:45They also need their father.
1:03:45 > 1:03:47Brodie! I can't care about the other children now.
1:03:47 > 1:03:49I can only care about Annie!
1:03:50 > 1:03:53Mind her shawl. Make sure it's tucked in.
1:03:53 > 1:03:57Good. All right, thank you.
1:03:57 > 1:03:59Thank you. All right, little frog.
1:03:59 > 1:04:03I made these for the journey, Mum. It's Annie's favourite.
1:04:04 > 1:04:06You will see your Mama when you're well again.
1:04:06 > 1:04:08- Brodie, get aboard.- No!
1:04:08 > 1:04:11- No!- Say goodbye, now. Brodie, get aboard.
1:04:11 > 1:04:12No, I can't! I don't want to say good-bye!
1:04:12 > 1:04:15Say goodbye now.
1:04:15 > 1:04:18No, I'm going with you. I'm going with you. Wait there!
1:04:18 > 1:04:19Wait for me!
1:04:23 > 1:04:25WEEPING
1:04:32 > 1:04:34CHARLES: Go! Go now.
1:04:36 > 1:04:40Walk on! HORSE NEIGHS
1:05:13 > 1:05:16Mr Darwin, old friend.
1:05:16 > 1:05:19Mr Darwin. How long has it been?
1:05:19 > 1:05:21I haven't clapped eyes on you since...
1:05:22 > 1:05:24Well...
1:05:24 > 1:05:27So, what have we now?
1:05:27 > 1:05:29What have we now?
1:05:29 > 1:05:31Tongue?
1:05:31 > 1:05:34Mm-mm.
1:05:34 > 1:05:36Shirt up. Let me feel your liver.
1:05:41 > 1:05:44Right. Up.
1:05:44 > 1:05:46Pulse hectic, tongue furred,
1:05:46 > 1:05:49liver tender and enlarged.
1:05:49 > 1:05:51And obviously, you've been exercising your brain
1:05:51 > 1:05:53every hour that God gave you.
1:05:53 > 1:05:55I have been writing a book.
1:05:55 > 1:05:56Madness!
1:05:56 > 1:05:58There are far too many of those already.
1:05:58 > 1:06:00Are you sleeping?
1:06:00 > 1:06:02Poorly.
1:06:02 > 1:06:05And I suppose never taking the 50c dilution of chelidonium?
1:06:05 > 1:06:08I had my carpenter build a water tower.
1:06:08 > 1:06:10It no longer has any effect.
1:06:10 > 1:06:12Well, of course not!
1:06:12 > 1:06:13Your carpenter isn't a hydrotherapist.
1:06:13 > 1:06:15What on Earth possessed you?
1:06:15 > 1:06:17I feared I was dying.
1:06:17 > 1:06:19Oh, come, come, come.
1:06:19 > 1:06:20We shall not have that talk here.
1:06:20 > 1:06:25A sharp spinal scrub, cold douche daily at 7am,
1:06:25 > 1:06:28and sweating by the lamp.
1:06:28 > 1:06:30No red meat, no reading,
1:06:30 > 1:06:33no mental agitation of any kind.
1:06:33 > 1:06:35We shall soon have you right, Mr Darwin.
1:06:35 > 1:06:38We shall soon have you right.
1:07:20 > 1:07:23Papa?
1:07:23 > 1:07:25I think I'm feeling better now.
1:07:25 > 1:07:26Honestly.
1:08:18 > 1:08:22Papa!
1:09:08 > 1:09:11Sir, I kneel before you in all humility.
1:09:16 > 1:09:20If it is in your power, God, to save her...
1:09:20 > 1:09:23then I will believe in you for the rest of my days.
1:09:28 > 1:09:31Take me,
1:09:31 > 1:09:34if you must take someone, but not her. She...
1:09:37 > 1:09:40She's such a good little girl, you see. She...
1:09:52 > 1:09:54I ask this in the name of your child and mine,
1:09:54 > 1:09:56and in the name of all children.
1:09:59 > 1:10:02Thank you.
1:10:02 > 1:10:03Amen.
1:10:06 > 1:10:09With what do you most associate these symptoms?
1:10:09 > 1:10:10Eating?
1:10:10 > 1:10:13Strong emotion?
1:10:13 > 1:10:15Physical exertion?
1:10:15 > 1:10:17Any particular action?
1:10:19 > 1:10:21Is memory an action?
1:10:21 > 1:10:22Memory of what?
1:10:25 > 1:10:27My daughter.
1:10:27 > 1:10:29Of course.
1:10:30 > 1:10:32You must accept
1:10:32 > 1:10:34there was nothing more to be done.
1:10:38 > 1:10:41Oh, dear fellow.
1:10:41 > 1:10:44She is in heaven.
1:10:46 > 1:10:50Yes, that's what my wife believes.
1:10:50 > 1:10:52It is a great consolation to her.
1:10:52 > 1:10:54But not you?
1:10:54 > 1:10:58She and I are divided on it.
1:10:58 > 1:11:00Were you always?
1:11:00 > 1:11:03No.
1:11:03 > 1:11:06Only since Annie died.
1:11:08 > 1:11:10Whoa, there!
1:11:13 > 1:11:16Charles, I'm...
1:11:16 > 1:11:19I'm so very sorry about Annie.
1:11:19 > 1:11:21Where is she?
1:11:21 > 1:11:22In the lady chapel.
1:11:22 > 1:11:24Thank you. Thank you.
1:11:39 > 1:11:42WHISPERED PRAYING
1:11:59 > 1:12:03Since that time, she has sought refuge in religion,
1:12:03 > 1:12:04I, in science.
1:12:04 > 1:12:08Has this division
1:12:08 > 1:12:12affected your marital relations?
1:12:14 > 1:12:17We have none anymore.
1:12:17 > 1:12:18To speak of.
1:12:20 > 1:12:23Perhaps that's for the best.
1:12:23 > 1:12:25Meaning?
1:12:27 > 1:12:29Our last baby...
1:12:33 > 1:12:35Baby Ch...baby Charlie.
1:12:35 > 1:12:39He barely survived beyond infancy, and...
1:12:40 > 1:12:43SOBS
1:12:43 > 1:12:47Are you familiar with the writings of De Quincey?
1:12:47 > 1:12:50Yes, I've read him.
1:12:50 > 1:12:52I have no time for the man.
1:12:52 > 1:12:58He maintains that certain thoughts can reside in our mind,
1:12:58 > 1:13:00without us being aware of them.
1:13:00 > 1:13:05They then may manifest as boils
1:13:05 > 1:13:08and fainting spells,
1:13:08 > 1:13:09and ghosts.
1:13:14 > 1:13:18It's possible, yes.
1:13:18 > 1:13:22Annie is buried here in Malvern, is she not?
1:13:27 > 1:13:29Yes.
1:13:29 > 1:13:32Have you yet visited the grave?
1:13:38 > 1:13:40I really do not wish to discuss this.
1:13:40 > 1:13:42Of course.
1:13:42 > 1:13:43What possible bearing can it have on my case?
1:13:43 > 1:13:46- I think it has every bearing. - Well, that is your opinion, doctor.
1:13:46 > 1:13:48Now, your treatments have been effective. I feel cured.
1:13:48 > 1:13:49I think not, sir.
1:13:51 > 1:13:54I think you're not yet cured.
1:13:54 > 1:13:56Do you have faith, Mr Darwin?
1:13:56 > 1:13:58What?
1:13:58 > 1:14:01You say you take no comfort from religion,
1:14:01 > 1:14:04but do you have faith?
1:14:06 > 1:14:08Until you do,
1:14:08 > 1:14:13all the waters in the world will not be the cure of you.
1:15:02 > 1:15:03Annie?
1:15:06 > 1:15:07Annie!
1:15:07 > 1:15:09Annie!
1:15:10 > 1:15:13Annie!
1:15:13 > 1:15:14Annie!
1:15:16 > 1:15:18Annie!
1:15:51 > 1:15:53Hello?
1:15:58 > 1:16:00Hello?
1:16:09 > 1:16:11Hello?
1:16:11 > 1:16:12Hello?
1:16:13 > 1:16:15Good evening.
1:16:15 > 1:16:19- Good evening.- I'm Mr Darwin. I lodged here some time ago.
1:16:19 > 1:16:21Room number 12, wasn't it?
1:16:21 > 1:16:23Yes, it was.
1:16:26 > 1:16:28I would only be 10 minutes or so.
1:16:32 > 1:16:35First floor. Last room on the right.
1:16:35 > 1:16:37Yes, I remember.
1:16:38 > 1:16:39Thank you.
1:17:02 > 1:17:06I have the embrocation.
1:17:06 > 1:17:08Does she want for anything else?
1:17:08 > 1:17:10No, no, no, I'm sure that will do admirably.
1:17:10 > 1:17:12All right.
1:17:12 > 1:17:15All right, little one.
1:17:15 > 1:17:17Here we go.
1:17:18 > 1:17:21Now, then.
1:17:21 > 1:17:23Just rub this on.
1:17:23 > 1:17:25How's that? Better?
1:17:25 > 1:17:26Yes.
1:17:30 > 1:17:32'Dearest Emma,
1:17:32 > 1:17:35'I think it best for you to know how each day passes.
1:17:35 > 1:17:40'Doctor Gully's treatments are having some effect at last.
1:17:40 > 1:17:43'I will write again tomorrow, but in the meantime...'
1:17:43 > 1:17:46'The surgeon came today to draw off Annie's water.
1:17:47 > 1:17:51'This did not hurt her, and seemed to give much relief.
1:17:51 > 1:17:54'I asked if there was any immediate threat to her life,
1:17:54 > 1:17:56'But he believes she has turned the corner.'
1:17:59 > 1:18:02'My Emma, Annie rallied yesterday.
1:18:02 > 1:18:05'For a moment, I was foolish with delight,
1:18:05 > 1:18:08'But now, suddenly,
1:18:08 > 1:18:11'our dear child has taken a turn for the worse.
1:18:11 > 1:18:15'This last attack was first thought to be of the smallest importance,
1:18:15 > 1:18:19'But rapidly assumed the form of a low and dreadful fever.
1:18:19 > 1:18:20'She talks a great deal,
1:18:20 > 1:18:22'but we can seldom make out anything.'
1:18:22 > 1:18:25Look, Mama, I'm a general!
1:18:29 > 1:18:30'Much of what she says
1:18:30 > 1:18:34'we cannot make out from the roughness of her poor mouth.
1:18:34 > 1:18:36'We sponged her with water and vinegar.
1:18:36 > 1:18:39'Made her sweet with chloride of lime.
1:18:39 > 1:18:43'Gully thinks our poor, sweet child is in imminent danger.'
1:18:43 > 1:18:46Is that better, my darling? Is that better?
1:18:46 > 1:18:48Beautifully good.
1:18:51 > 1:18:53I'm making custard.
1:19:00 > 1:19:02'My darling Emma, I miss you, terribly,
1:19:02 > 1:19:05'More now than ever.
1:19:05 > 1:19:09'I often think of the precious looks Annie gives you.
1:19:09 > 1:19:12'You were always the tenderest of human beings to her
1:19:12 > 1:19:14'and comfort her so on all occasions.
1:19:14 > 1:19:18'This dreadful alternation of hope and no hope
1:19:18 > 1:19:20'sickens the soul.
1:19:20 > 1:19:24'I feel we must prepare ourselves for the worst.'
1:19:29 > 1:19:32Tell me about Jenny.
1:19:39 > 1:19:42What about Jenny?
1:19:42 > 1:19:46About how she dies.
1:19:51 > 1:19:54Please, Papa. I like it.
1:19:57 > 1:20:00Well...
1:20:00 > 1:20:04What the keeper told me was this.
1:20:04 > 1:20:07When she was very sick with pneumonia,
1:20:07 > 1:20:09lying very still...
1:20:11 > 1:20:14..he tried to feed her with a spoon.
1:20:18 > 1:20:20But she shook her head
1:20:20 > 1:20:25and she looked at him as if to say,
1:20:25 > 1:20:29"That's very sweet of you. Really.
1:20:29 > 1:20:33"We're beyond that now."
1:20:37 > 1:20:39And the keeper was much moved
1:20:39 > 1:20:42by the gentleness of the little ape.
1:20:42 > 1:20:46And as he bent down to comfort her,
1:20:46 > 1:20:52she brought her arms up around his neck
1:20:52 > 1:20:55and looked into his eyes in the most human fashion.
1:21:00 > 1:21:04And then she laid her head against him...
1:21:09 > 1:21:11..and died.
1:21:35 > 1:21:38CRYING
1:21:47 > 1:21:48No!
1:21:52 > 1:21:55ANGUISHED CRIES
1:21:56 > 1:22:01Oh, my darling girl, my darling girl!
1:22:38 > 1:22:41PIANO PLAYS
1:22:49 > 1:22:51Sorry.
1:22:51 > 1:22:54So sorry I startled you.
1:22:54 > 1:22:56Goodness, Charles.
1:22:56 > 1:22:58Take off your coat. You're dripping wet.
1:22:58 > 1:23:00Emma, we need to talk.
1:23:02 > 1:23:05I went back to Worcester Road.
1:23:05 > 1:23:08I saw Annie.
1:23:12 > 1:23:13You're hurting my arm.
1:23:13 > 1:23:14I need to make you understand what happened to me.
1:23:14 > 1:23:16I do not want to hear it.
1:23:16 > 1:23:18I am glad you're feeling better.
1:23:18 > 1:23:21You're not listening, Emma, and I need you to listen.
1:23:21 > 1:23:23If you don't, you will never understand.
1:23:23 > 1:23:24I understand perfectly.
1:23:24 > 1:23:26Do you think that I am deaf and blind?
1:23:26 > 1:23:29You've lived with her and you have spoken with her
1:23:29 > 1:23:30every day since she died.
1:23:30 > 1:23:33She is more real to you than we are.
1:23:33 > 1:23:35She is dead, Charles.
1:23:35 > 1:23:37I know she's dead.
1:23:37 > 1:23:38She is dead!
1:23:38 > 1:23:41What in God's name is wrong with you?
1:23:41 > 1:23:44Why can you not leave our poor girl in her grave?
1:23:44 > 1:23:47You're the one who wants to keep her alive,
1:23:47 > 1:23:50but on a cloud, dancing with little fairies...
1:23:50 > 1:23:53- I will not listen to this! - ..with snowy white wings!
1:23:53 > 1:23:55Is that how her death was for you, Emma?
1:23:55 > 1:23:57Something gutted of darkness?
1:23:57 > 1:23:59- Get away from me! - Away from you?
1:23:59 > 1:24:01Emma, there is a gulf between us!
1:24:01 > 1:24:05And we're like some, some survivors of some shipwreck.
1:24:05 > 1:24:06Yes! Yes, because of you!
1:24:06 > 1:24:08You've torn everything apart!
1:24:08 > 1:24:09How?
1:24:09 > 1:24:11With your cruel theories!
1:24:11 > 1:24:13With the truth, Emma!
1:24:13 > 1:24:14Just with the truth!
1:24:14 > 1:24:16Open the door!
1:24:16 > 1:24:18Open the...open the door!
1:24:18 > 1:24:20Open this door! Open it!
1:24:23 > 1:24:25What do you want from me?
1:24:25 > 1:24:28I want us to be honest with each other.
1:24:28 > 1:24:30- About what?- About this...
1:24:30 > 1:24:33..nagging belief that you have nurtured.
1:24:33 > 1:24:35That what?
1:24:35 > 1:24:37That I killed her.
1:24:37 > 1:24:40I never said that.
1:24:40 > 1:24:42No, but you think it, so you must say it.
1:24:42 > 1:24:45And say everything else that follows, that...
1:24:45 > 1:24:49I should have kept her warm that day on the beach, that...
1:24:49 > 1:24:53I should never have taken her to Malvern without you.
1:24:56 > 1:25:00I should have waited for you. I... I should have.
1:25:00 > 1:25:04These are your thoughts, Charles.
1:25:04 > 1:25:07They are not mine.
1:25:09 > 1:25:12I was on the beach.
1:25:14 > 1:25:17And I let you go.
1:25:19 > 1:25:24I knew, when you left for Malvern,
1:25:24 > 1:25:28that I would never see her again.
1:25:28 > 1:25:31And I hated you.
1:25:31 > 1:25:35I hated you for taking her, Charles.
1:25:35 > 1:25:39But I was her mother.
1:25:39 > 1:25:42And what was I thinking?
1:25:42 > 1:25:46I could have insisted.
1:25:46 > 1:25:50I should have followed you up there.
1:25:54 > 1:25:59I let her go.
1:25:59 > 1:26:04That's the truth.
1:26:04 > 1:26:08And more than anything...
1:26:08 > 1:26:11I have...
1:26:11 > 1:26:16hated myself.
1:26:24 > 1:26:26Perhaps...
1:26:32 > 1:26:36Perhaps we should never have married.
1:26:39 > 1:26:42Our blood was too close.
1:26:49 > 1:26:51You see, Emma...
1:26:51 > 1:26:56I thought that we were making the perfect child.
1:27:05 > 1:27:08But perhaps instead we endowed her
1:27:08 > 1:27:10with the weakness that killed her.
1:27:16 > 1:27:19I just...
1:27:19 > 1:27:23wanted to be with you so very much.
1:27:36 > 1:27:41The fact of it is...
1:27:43 > 1:27:47..knowing everything I now know...
1:27:49 > 1:27:54I would marry you again tomorrow, my love.
1:28:53 > 1:28:55MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
1:29:38 > 1:29:41'The affinities of all beings of the same class
1:29:41 > 1:29:45'have sometimes been represented by a great tree.
1:29:45 > 1:29:47'The green and budding twigs
1:29:47 > 1:29:48'may represent existing species,
1:29:48 > 1:29:51'And those produced during each former year
1:29:51 > 1:29:54'may represent the long succession of extinct species.
1:29:54 > 1:29:57'So, I believe it has been with the great tree of life,
1:29:57 > 1:30:00'which fills with its dead and broken branches
1:30:00 > 1:30:02'the crust of the earth,
1:30:02 > 1:30:04'while covering the surface with its...'
1:30:04 > 1:30:08'The frameworks of bones being the same in the hand of a man,
1:30:08 > 1:30:12'wing of a bat, fin of a porpoise and leg of a horse
1:30:12 > 1:30:15'at once explain themselves on the theory of descent
1:30:15 > 1:30:18'With slow and slight successive...'
1:30:18 > 1:30:20'It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank,
1:30:20 > 1:30:23'clothed with many plants of many kinds,
1:30:23 > 1:30:25'with birds singing on the bushes,
1:30:25 > 1:30:27'with various insects flitting about
1:30:27 > 1:30:29'and with worms crawling through the damp earth,
1:30:29 > 1:30:33'and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms,
1:30:33 > 1:30:36'so different from each other and dependent upon each other
1:30:36 > 1:30:38'in so complex a manner,
1:30:38 > 1:30:43'have all been produced by laws acting around us.'
1:30:49 > 1:30:51"...advancing gently forward over my breast,
1:30:51 > 1:30:53"came almost up to my chin,
1:30:53 > 1:30:54"and bending my eyes downwards
1:30:54 > 1:30:56"as much as I could,
1:30:56 > 1:30:57"I quivered..."
1:30:57 > 1:31:00- Hello.- Hello.
1:31:00 > 1:31:04I was wondering if I might... might take over.
1:31:14 > 1:31:16All right.
1:31:18 > 1:31:21Where were you?
1:31:22 > 1:31:24"I perceived it to be a human creature
1:31:24 > 1:31:25"not six inches high."
1:31:25 > 1:31:28Not the book.
1:31:28 > 1:31:31Please, a true story.
1:31:31 > 1:31:34Like you did with Annie.
1:31:47 > 1:31:53All right. Let me think.
1:31:53 > 1:31:56Did I ever tell you about my riding with gauchos?
1:31:56 > 1:31:58Yes.
1:31:58 > 1:32:00- Yes.- Yes.
1:32:00 > 1:32:03Or the time our ship was struck by Saint Elmo's fire?
1:32:03 > 1:32:04ALL: Yes.
1:32:04 > 1:32:06My attempt to climb the Andes? ALL: Yes!
1:32:06 > 1:32:08Earthquakes?
1:32:08 > 1:32:09ALL: Yes!
1:32:09 > 1:32:10Tidal waves?
1:32:10 > 1:32:12Really? I did?
1:32:12 > 1:32:13ALL: Yes.
1:32:13 > 1:32:17Goodness gracious, I think I've told you everything.
1:32:17 > 1:32:21And yet I fancy
1:32:21 > 1:32:23I have never told you
1:32:23 > 1:32:26about the giant sloth of Punta Alta.
1:32:26 > 1:32:28All: No.
1:32:29 > 1:32:31All right, then.
1:32:31 > 1:32:34Millions and millions of years ago,
1:32:34 > 1:32:39in a rich and verdant land that we now call Argentina,
1:32:39 > 1:32:41There lived a mammal...
1:32:45 > 1:32:49There lived a mammal as large as an elephant,
1:32:49 > 1:32:50as gentle as a lemur
1:32:50 > 1:32:53and as slow as an incredibly slow snail.
1:32:53 > 1:32:55And he lived a happy life
1:32:55 > 1:32:57watching the slow green march
1:32:57 > 1:33:00of the passing seasons.
1:33:12 > 1:33:15PIANO PLAYS
1:33:22 > 1:33:25I've finished.
1:33:25 > 1:33:26I've finished.
1:33:30 > 1:33:32You decide.
1:33:32 > 1:33:34About what?
1:33:34 > 1:33:36Well, about what should be done with it.
1:33:36 > 1:33:41Someone needs to take God's side in all of this.
1:33:41 > 1:33:45And I'd much rather it was you than Innes.
1:33:45 > 1:33:48Supposing I think it should be destroyed?
1:33:48 > 1:33:50Well...
1:33:50 > 1:33:54Then you must do what you think is right.
1:33:57 > 1:33:59Read it first.
1:35:14 > 1:35:17Emma?
1:35:19 > 1:35:22Well, you said it was my decision.
1:35:33 > 1:35:35Emma, where...
1:35:35 > 1:35:37Where are you going?
1:35:39 > 1:35:42To John Murray, publishers.
1:35:46 > 1:35:48Do I have it right?
1:35:50 > 1:35:53Yes.
1:35:53 > 1:35:55And so...
1:35:55 > 1:35:59you have finally made an accomplice of me.
1:36:04 > 1:36:07May God forgive us both.
1:36:31 > 1:36:32Good morning, Jim.
1:36:32 > 1:36:34Morning, Mr Darwin, sir. That parcel for me?
1:36:34 > 1:36:36Yes. Yes, it is.
1:36:38 > 1:36:41'Thus, from the war of nature,
1:36:41 > 1:36:43'from famine and death,
1:36:43 > 1:36:45'the most exalted object we are capable of conceiving,
1:36:45 > 1:36:48'namely the production of higher animals,
1:36:48 > 1:36:51'directly follows.
1:36:51 > 1:36:54'There is grandeur in this view of life,
1:36:54 > 1:36:58'that whilst this planet has gone cycling on
1:36:58 > 1:37:00'according to the fixed law of gravity,
1:37:00 > 1:37:03'from so simple a beginning,
1:37:03 > 1:37:05'endless forms,
1:37:05 > 1:37:07'most beautiful and most wonderful,
1:37:07 > 1:37:13'have been, and are being, evolved.
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