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: <a href='https://musopen.org/music/306-the-hebrides-fingals-cave-op-26/'>The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), Op. 26</a> by Felix Mendelssohn, played by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, from <a href='http://musopen.org'>musopen.org</a>

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

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: <a href="https://musopen.org/music/306-the-hebrides-fingals-cave-op-26/" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), Op. 26</a> by Felix Mendelssohn, played by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, from <a href="http://musopen.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">musopen.org</a>

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