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Hunting the Beagle

Hunting the Beagle: Episode 4

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Examining the correlation between the Beagle Mars lander and HMS Beagle.

The leader of the Beagle Mars lander team considers the correlation between the work of that vessel and HMS Beagle. From 2008.

Dr Robert Prescott is digging down into the Essex mud for the remains of HMS Beagle - and Professor Colin Pillinger, who led the Beagle Mars lander team, considers the correlation between the work of the two vessels.

Producer: Jeremy Grange

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2008.

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Dr Robert Prescott searches for the final resting place of Charles Darwin's ship.

Dr Robert Prescott searches for the final resting place of the ship aboard which Charles Darwin began to formulate the ideas which would eventually become his theory of evolution.

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