Conversations from the Darwin Festival - Ruth Padel

Chris Smith

Poet and Darwin-descendent Ruth Padel talks about how the history books led her to write "Darwin, a life in poems", an anthology of fifteen poems charting the major events of Darwin's life. Here she talks to Chris Smith about how her life was influenced by growing up as the great great granddaughter of Darwin, and how she came to write this poetry collection recognising Darwin's bicentenary.