Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero

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Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero: Episode 1: Wallace in Borneo

Wallace in Borneo

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Episode 1: Wallace in Borneo

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Bill Bailey meets orangutans and flying frogs on his journey through Borneo.

Bill Bailey retraces the steps of his hero, naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, to understand how he came up with the theory of evolution independently of Darwin.

Comedian Bill Bailey heads to the jungles of Indonesia in the footsteps of his hero, Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, to understand how he came up with the theory of evolution independently of Darwin. 

Wallace was a brilliantly eccentric British explorer and, unlike Darwin, he came from a humble background and had to pay his own way by collecting animals. He survived months living in the jungle, man-eating tigers and headhunting tribes to scoop Darwin to the theory of evolution.

Wallace changed the way we see life on earth but has since been written out of history. In the first of this two-part series, Bill retraces Wallace's explorations from the jungles of Borneo to the exotic islands of Indonesia, encountering orangutans, flying frogs and extraordinary bugs, on a mission to understand how Wallace came up with the theory of evolution and to win him the recognition he deserves.

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Bill meets wildlife in Borneo and Indonesia to tell the story of Darwin's rival Wallace.

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