{"id":1126,"date":"2009-09-28T21:33:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T01:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2009-09-29T07:36:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T11:36:45","slug":"darwins-darkest-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Darwin&#8217;s Darkest Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nova have released their new Docu-drama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/darwin\/\">Darwin&#8217;s Darkest Hour<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0which will be a two hour movie, split into two hour long sections. It will be aired\u00c2\u00a0Tuesday October 6Th at 8.00pm on\u00c2\u00a0most PBS stations. I did call my local PBS\u00c2\u00a0stations, WEDU in Tampa and WMFE in Orlando who both assured me that they would be showing the program. I would suggest that you contact\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/stationfinder\/index.html\">the\u00c2\u00a0PBS station in your own\u00c2\u00a0area<\/a> to confirm the day and time of\u00c2\u00a0the airing. Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Darkest Hour, National Geographic Television\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first scripted film, portrays a crisis in Charles Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life,\u00c2\u00a0showing us\u00c2\u00a0Darwin&#8217;s struggle to\u00c2\u00a0endured the year before the publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_the_Origin_of_Species\">&#8220;On the Origin of Species&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nova have released their new Docu-drama Darwin&#8217;s Darkest Hour\u00c2\u00a0which will be a two hour movie, split into two hour long sections. It will be aired\u00c2\u00a0Tuesday October 6Th at 8.00pm on\u00c2\u00a0most PBS stations. I did call my local PBS\u00c2\u00a0stations, WEDU in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-ia","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":873,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=873","url_meta":{"origin":1126,"position":0},"title":"What&#8217;s happening in Texas","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of Florida newspapers ran stories this morning about the fight over evolution instruction in Texas. 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