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26 uncut interviews from 'The Genius of Charles Darwin', British Broadcasting Awards' Best Documentary Series of 2008.

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Richard Dawkins' 2008 hit television series ..‘The Genius of Charles Darwin' explored Darwin's theory of natural selection and some common misconceptions associated with it today.  The interviewees filmed for this documentary included biologists, philosophers, clergyman, business analysts, teachers, Evolutionary Psychologists and more.  This massive 3-DVD collection brings you over 18 hours of these fascinating uncut interviews and discussions.  

Disc 1: Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Craig Venter, Randy Nesse, Peter Singer,  Sean Casey, Wendy Wright

Disc 2: Randall Keynes, Father George Coyne, Rowan Williams, Jonathan Kingdon, Richard Leakey, Larry Gelmon, Steven Rose,  Eric Beinhocker, John Mackay, Bonifes Adoyo

Disc 3: Science Class & Science Teachers at Park High School, Richard Hulbert Jr, Frans De Waal, Claus Rodgaard, Sperm Bank Women, Wane Besen, Iris French, Nick Cowan

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Feature length: 1,103 min

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3 DVDs

Region: Zero (All-Region)

All proceeds go to The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.

On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, read by Richard Dawkins

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"The Origin of the Species" is edited and read by Richard Dawkins. This is Charles Darwin's seminal Work examining evolution and the origin of species. It is rated by Melvyn Bragg and Radio 4 as one out of 12 of the world's most important and influential books ever published.  

Run Time: 6 hours

5 CDs.  

On The Origin of Species must be high on any serious list of the most important and influential books ever written.  On its first publication in 1859, Thomas Henry Huxley exclaimed "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Charles Darwin's revolutionary idea is, indeed, an astoundingly simple one, especially when you measure it against the magnitude of what it explains - every fact that we know about life on Earth.

Listen to On The Origin of Species, and you immediately find yourself ushered into the presence of one of the finest minds ever to grace this planet.  In this recording, which was a true labour of love, I made no attempt to act the part of Darwin, but instead worked hard, as a modern follower of Darwin, to convey the true meaning of every sentence.  I even surprised myself: the exercise of reading Darwin's words aloud and identifying in every phrase the syllable that needed to be stressed, revealed to me subtleties and depths of meaning that I had missed when reading quietly to myself.  I hope listeners will be enlightened in the same way. 

Of Darwin's six editions I chose to abridge from the first.  Surprisingly, and in many ways, it is the most modern.  Moreover, it is of greatest historical interest, as being the one that actually hit the Victorian solar plexus and drove out the wind of centuries.  In abridging the book, my priority was to cut those passages that are now known to be wrong, notably those concerned with genetics.  I believe it is what Darwin himself would have wished.  What takes my breath away as a modern biologist is how much Darwin got right.  It has been well said that he worked a century and more ahead of his time.  The year 2009 is both the bi-centenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of On The Origin of Species and that statement is becoming harder to deny.  

- Richard Dawkins

Reviews:

"Dawkins is a mellifluous and naturally authorititive reader" The Daily Telegraph "Dawkins brings the famous words to life" Audiofile Magazine ...one of the most arresting narrations of non-fiction I have ever heard...the great naturalist's arguments come over with lucidity and charm.A" Christina Hardyment, The Times. "Having Richard Dawins read it makes a huge difference...if Darwin via Dawkins tells me that the laws of co-relative genetics decree that cats with blue eyes are often deaf, that hairless dogs have bad teeth and that pigeons with short beaks have small feet, I'll buy that..." Sue Arnold, The Guardian. "Dawkins reads engagingly, and the whole effect is like David Attenborough without the pictures" Karen Robinson, The Sunday Times