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Secrets of the Dead The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone (2000– ) Online

Secrets of the Dead The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone (2000– ) Online
2000– Peter De Jersey Jay O. Sanders Adrian Wisnicki Melisa Akdogan Ben Mole
Original Title :
The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone
Genre :
TV Episode / Documentary / History / Mystery / War
Year :
2000–
Directror :
Melisa Akdogan,Ben Mole
Cast :
Peter De Jersey,Jay O. Sanders,Adrian Wisnicki
Writer :
Melisa Akdogan,David Livingstone
Type :
TV Episode
Time :
53min
Rating :
6.8/10

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Secrets of the Dead The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone (2000– ) Online

From PBS - "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" To celebrate the 200th anniversary of David Livingstone's birth in March 1813, The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone, follows a pioneering American team's ground-breaking attempts to decipher the legendary explorer's last field diary. By digging out these forgotten diary pages, they began an incredible journey inside the mind of this extraordinary 19th-century adventurer. Was Livingstone the hero he's made out to be? The original pages of his last field diary contain a secret, hidden until now. Scrawled over an old copy of The Standard newspaper in an 'ink' made of berry juice, the words are faded and illegible. No one has been able to read these words since Livingstone's death 140 years ago. Now, state-of-the-art multi-spectral imaging technology can help us see the invisible. And the pages reveal Livingstone witnessed a shocking massacre in an African slave-trading village. Is it possible that Livingstone, a crusader for the abolition of slavery,...
Episode cast overview:
Peter De Jersey Peter De Jersey - Narrator (voice)
Jay O. Sanders Jay O. Sanders - Narrator in US version (voice)
Adrian Wisnicki Adrian Wisnicki - Himself, assistant professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Neil Wilson Neil Wilson - Himself, Dr. David Livingstone's descendant
Ken Boydston Ken Boydston - Himself, CEO, MegaVision
Joanna Lewis Joanna Lewis - Herself, historian (as Dr. Joanna Lewis)
Russell Gammon Russell Gammon - Himself, African wilderness guide
Keith Knox Keith Knox - Himself, Rochester Institute of Technology
Lawrence Dritsas Lawrence Dritsas - Himself, historian, University of Edinburgh (as Dr. Lawrence Dritsas)


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Lost Python

Livingstone--explorer and abolitionist lost diary missing diary--found but unreadable cleaned up diaries a bit about massacre--I am sure this happened a lot his explorations led to imperialism interesting how they cleaned up diary pages no saint but helped end slave trade

Today, Dr. David Livingstone is a name few would recall here in the States. While he's well remembered in the UK, I have no idea--but for Americans and other folks not familiar with his work, this documentary is worth seeing.

Livingstone was a famous explorer who helped to open up Africa to Europeans due to his years spent mapping the interior of the continent. While the show talks about this, its main thrust is on the man's involvement in ending the slave trade by exposing its abuses to those outside Africa. However, researchers portrayed in the show want to re- examine his account of a huge massacre perpetrated by slavers and their men. The problem was to find his original notes and then, once they were found, to understand them because they were written on newspapers using berry juice--I kid you not!

The show was well done and interesting. My only quibble was that they talked as if it was a big surprise that the Doctor edited and re-framed his account to make himself seem a bit nicer than he might have been. However, this sort of thing seems pretty easy to believe about him and other primary sources. Heck, it probably happened all the time that writers framed things to make themselves look better...duh! Still, interesting and worth seeing.