Darwin, the devil's chaplain.

Professors Adrian Desmond and James Moore, researchers on the political and social aspects of Charles Darwin's work, provide a dramatic narration of Darwin's life and times, based on their biography of Darwin. They convey the political and religious tensions of the period, which necessitated Darwin's suppression of his own opinions and his crisis of conscience over the likely impact of his "Origin of Species". The two narrators present a forceful picture of a man living a double life, a solidly respectable establishment figure who, unwillingly, undermined the fabric of his own society.