Release Date

30 Dec, 2002

Runtime

02:02: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

One man who kept asking questions was Gideon Mantell, the amateur paleontologist who, in the early 19th century, fought to get the British scientific establishment to accept Britain had been inhabited by dinosaurs. As this dramatised documentary shows, Mantell had an uphill battle in a time when the biblical account of creation was considered literal truth and authorities such as the Reverend William Buckland were determined that science remain "the handmaid of religion".

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Actors

Henry Ian Cusick

Paul Brightwell

Michelle Bunyan

Alan Cox

Kristian Griffiths

Derek Jacobi

Rebecca McClay

Robert Morgan

Michael Pennington

Rachel Shelley

Laurie Goode

Crew