Listen as Richard Felix tells of the exploits of one of the greatest philosophers in the world who happened to live in Derbyshire. 

Erasmus Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor and poet. Who lived in Full Street Derby and also Breadsall Priory 

His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life.