The Forbidden Experiment - Part 4

Following on from the episode on James IV's experiment, this episode investigates why people at the time might have thought it was plausible that the children would end up speaking Hebrew, by looking at the rumour's context in the world of Renaissance linguistics, bringing in characters such as a linguist who thought an Italian nun was a female equivalent of Jesus Christ, and another who argued that the language spoken by Adam in the Garden of Eden was an early form of Dutch.