Darwin

[iainjclark]

I'm greatly enjoying Prof Richard Dawkins's current C4 series The Genius of Darwin, commemorating the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species. All pretty basic and obvious stuff about evolution perhaps, but I've been hoping for some time now (in this world of lowest common denominator science programming) that someone would come along and

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[communicator]

I saw the first episode, and I liked the way he spoke in a respectful way to the middle aged Kenyan (was she Kenyan?) prostitute. I was going to type 'as if speaking to an equal' which is ridiculous, as she is his equal, but some rich white famous people might have taken a different approach I think.