EPISODE · May 11, 2026 · 48 MIN
16. Tennessee v. Scopes: The Trial of the Century - Part 3
from Science: A Peculiar History · host Joe Bath
John Thomas Scopes, a schoolteacher from Dayton, Tennessee, goes on trial, accused of illegally teaching his students the Theory of Evolution. With the eyes of the nation and even the world turned to Dayton, Tennessee, notorious defence attorney Clarence Darrow interrogates an expert witness on the question of the taxonomic classification of whales.
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John Thomas Scopes, a schoolteacher from Dayton, Tennessee, goes on trial, accused of illegally teaching his students the Theory of Evolution. With the eyes of the nation and even the world turned to Dayton, Tennessee, notorious defence attorney Clarence Darrow interrogates an expert witness on the question of the taxonomic classification of whales.
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