BBC discussion of Alfred Russel Wallace

On BBC Radio 4, 1630 GMT, 01-Jan-2008, and weekly podcast to follow
probably within 24 hours.
"Great Lives"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/greatlives/index.shtml
will be doing Alfred Russel Wallace, although at the moment you'll get
the Victorian artist George Cruikshank.

The format is half an hour with a regular host, a celebrity proposer
of the programme's subject (usually dead), and an expert such as a
biographer, and some kind of agreed narrative in which the host poses
the questions that take the discussion forwards.

T.o.ers will recollect that Wallace independently formed a theory of
evolution while Charles Darwin had not published his own, and then
went a bit funny with Spiritualism.

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