The Dinosaur Hunters

The Dinosaur Hunters by Andrew Piddington

5.00

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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Cast

Henry Ian Cusick

Henry Ian Cusick as Gideon Mantell

Paul Brightwell

Paul Brightwell as Leney

Michelle Bunyan

Michelle Bunyan as Caroline Owen

Alan Cox

Alan Cox as Richard Owen

Kristian Griffiths

Kristian Griffiths as Walter Mantell (Aged 14-18)

Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi as Narrator (voice)

Rebecca McClay

Rebecca McClay as Mary Anning

Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan as Charles Lyell

Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington as William Buckland

Rachel Shelley

Rachel Shelley as Mary Mantell

Laurie Goode

Laurie Goode as Removal Man (uncredited)

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