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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Henry Ian Cusick as Gideon Mantell
Paul Brightwell as Leney
Michelle Bunyan as Caroline Owen
Alan Cox as Richard Owen
Kristian Griffiths as Walter Mantell (Aged 14-18)
Derek Jacobi as Narrator (voice)
Rebecca McClay as Mary Anning
Robert Morgan as Charles Lyell
Michael Pennington as William Buckland
Rachel Shelley as Mary Mantell
Laurie Goode as Removal Man (uncredited)
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