Quite.

This in from a Beagle Project supporter from Canada who shares the widespread surprise that the British Broadcasting Corporation so far sees no merit in a British-built replica of a British built ship which, commanded and crewed by courageous British sailors took a British born and educated man around the world. That British man then framed a theory which changed the world of science and establish biology a we know it today. Young British sailors and scientists will be among the crew who re-stage Darwin's 1831-36 voyage, crossing four oceans, crossing the equator, rounding Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope. British academics will have experiments and projects carried out aboard. Broadcasters from America, Japan, Germany, France, Australia and New Zealand do find this interesting. Strange.