1. The Flat Earth Incident - Part 1

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At a socialist commune in East Anglia, Samuel Rowbotham takes advantage of the fenland landscape to develop an outlandish cosmological theory. The first in a miniseries on the Victorian Flat Earthers. Music: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), Op. 26 by Felix Mendelssohn, played by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, from musopen.org

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At a socialist commune in East Anglia, Samuel Rowbotham takes advantage of the fenland landscape to develop an outlandish cosmological theory. The first in a miniseries on the Victorian Flat Earthers.Music: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), Op. 26 by Felix Mendelssohn, played by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, from musopen.org

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