Melvyn Bragg
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1,061 appearances
8 recordings
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2d ago
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Lynn Frostig, Director of the Hull Environment Research Institute and Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Hull, and Richard Caulfield, visiting senior lecturer in Earth Sciences at the Open University.
Richard Caulfield, plate tectonics is the mechanism by which the continents move around the surface of the Earth.
It was developed in the nineteen sixties.
But let's go back.
What sort of idea did people have of the sense of the movement of the earth, if any?
the the actual theory itself, about what people were saying about f fossil distribution around the world and how puzzling that was with continents being so widely separated by oceans and so
explanations did people come up with and when and who?
How long did the land bridges idea last and when uh when did it come in?
How long was it?
I can
I can remember
Jo Khan, um Richard's mentioned seafloor spreading.
Can you explain how that developed through and after the Second World War?
Yes,
started
So we to uh t so just after the Second World War, people are thinking that the old theories, whatever they were, which which it began to outline, didn't obtain were they were they moving towards any new theory of what this told them about the planet as a whole?
So Lynn, Lynn Frosty, can we go on from there then?
Let's say we've come to the end of the Second World War.
Numerous observations have been made.
As as Yes pointed out, people scientists had been at sea.
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