title. The book looks at how Darwin used his much-loved dogs as evidence of his continuing argument that all animals including human beings descended from one common ancestor, examining parts of Darwin's own writings in The Descent of Man. In Darwin's bicentenary year, 2009, Townshend wrote on Darwin’s connections with the Royal Botanic Garden for Kew Magazine, gave talks at the British Museum, and led guided tours of Kew. She continues to have links with the Royal Botanic Gardens: in December 2013 a tour of Kew plus afternoon tea with Townshend was auctioned for charity, by her employers the Independent on Sunday newspaper, selling eventually for £720. Music career In 1982 Townshend and her sister Minta made their professional music debut singing back-up on A Bao A Qu, a four-track EP by their aunt, singer-songwriter Virginia Astley, named after a Jorge Luis Borges story. Emma sang back-up on Pete Townshend's White City: A Novel album released in 1985, and appeared in the film of the same title, named after an area of West London. She was also guest vocalist at two November 1985 London concerts by her father's Deep End supergroup. Townshend's record deal with EastWest Records, part of the Warner Music Group, extended from 1995-1998, and she released the album Winterland in 1998, named after the celebrated sixties San Francisco music venue. The album received good reviews. She provided vocals for "We Can Fly Away", written by Sandy McLelland and Paul Lowin, which was the theme song in the 1999 made-for-TV movie The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns. This song has become her most popular, despite its lack of common ground with material issued under her own name. Discography Releases: Five-A-Side-Football Remixes (Maxi) (2 versions), EastWest, 1998 Five-A-Side-Football Remixes (CD, Maxi), EastWest, 1998 Five-A-Side-Football (12", Promo), EastWest, 1998 The Last Time I Saw Sadie (12", Promo), EastWest, 1998 The Last Time I Saw Sadie (CD, Maxi), EastWest, 1998 Winterland (CD, Album), EastWest, 1998 Appeared On: A Bao A Qu (Single), "We Will Meet Them Again," Why Fi Records, 1982 From Gardens Where We Feel Secure (Album), "A Summer Long Since Passed," Happy Valley / Rough Trade, 1983 White City: A Novel (Album), ATCO Records, 1985 White City: A Novel (CD, LP), ATCO Records, 1985 White City: A Novel (CD, Album, RM, RE), Hip-O Records, 2006 Pearl + Umbra (CD), "Canyon: Split Asunder," Bella Union, 1999 Tracks Appeared On: Platinum