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May 5 Scopes Trial and Teaching Evolution
Season 5 Episode 5
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Today we look at infamous Scopes Monkey Trial and the attempt to overthrow the Butler Act which prohibited teaching evolution in scho…
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May 6 Ghent Altarpiece
Season 5 Episode 6
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Its been described as the most stolen piece of art, the first great oil painting of the Northern Renaissance. A complex multi-panelle…
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May 4 Dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal
Season 5 Episode 4
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Today Alexander VI, the infamous Borgia Pope, issued a papal bull which drew up a line of demarcation dividing the New World between …
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May 3 The Sign of the Beast
Season 5 Episode 3
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Today we look at the birth of Uriah Smith and Seventh Day Adventism. Emerging out of a failed prophecy of the End of the World we lo…
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May 2 Fr Kircher, the Plague and Quarantine
Season 5 Episode 2
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The last polymath of the renaissance era was Fr Antanasius Kircher SJ. Among his many accomplishments he was the first to look at the…
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May 1 Death of David Livingstone
Season 5 Episode 1
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Perhaps the Westerner who did more to shape thinking about Africa then anyone else. Both a father of European Colonialism and a forer…
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Apr 30 The Polish Mystic, Faustina and the Divine Mercy
Season 4 Episode 30
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The Polish Mystic Faustina Kowalska was declared a saint in the presence of 200,000 people today and the first Divine Mercy Sunday wa…
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Apr 29 Joan of Arc
Episode 29
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The teenage illiterate peasant girl who saved France, inspired by courage and faith. We look at some of her story today, how she fou…
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Apr 28 Mutiny on the Bounty
Season 4 Episode 28
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What essentially became the archetypal morality tale for Britain's period of Naval Supremacy. Most of the mutineers died fighting eac…
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Apr 27 Milton's Paradise Lost
Season 4 Episode 27
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Some people describe it as the greatest poem in the English Language. Today we look at the lament 'Paradise Lost' - by the idealisti…
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