Tim Jackson's ten-part drama investigates Darwinism from the perspective of a woman ambitious to win in the rat race of modern academia.
1: Historian of science, Kate Williams, is researching a book on Emma Darwin and the influence she had on the life of her famous husband, Charles, writer of The Origin of Species. But Kate's father is ill and she finds herself torn between her work at the university and her father's need for emotional support.
Director Peter Leslie Wild. Repeated from 10.45am