Beagle: In het kielzog van Darwin (Documentary, Dutch)
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2009-09-13
Ended: 2010-05-30
Network: NPO 3
Country: NL
Airs on: Sunday
Air time: 21:05
Runtime: 35 minutes
Beagle: In het kielzog van Darwin is a Dutch-Flemish series to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. The series is centered on an 8-month voyage around the world on board of the clipper Stad Amsterdam which follows the route of the five-year-long voyage of Charles Darwin on board of the ship HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836. The Stad Amsterdam departed from the English port of Plymouth on September 1, 2009.The recurring shipmates were journalist and presenter Lex Runderkamp, biologists Dirk Draulans and Sarah Darwin (who is the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin), the artist Anthony Smith and the writer Redmond O'Hanlon. Apart from them several other more or less well-known people joined the voyage and some joined for only one or more legs of the voyage, including some other descendants of Charles Darwin.