Melvyn Bragg
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1,061 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
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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There was a lot of shipping around, a lot of time on people's hands and they went on doing experiments.
Wh where were we in terms of arriving at a theory?
Where were you, Charles, in terms of arriving at a theory?
So they knew it was it was d i th the sea s but it was spreading but but they didn't know
H where it went to and how
t what was the theory then before plate tectonics?
What were you being taught as a
Let's stay with the f sea floor for a moment or two before we come to this Eureka moment as you call it, actually.
The the plate of Tommy It's an extraordinary discovery qu quite recently.
I mean a lot of us were alive.
Alive and uh aging in the sixties.
Um
S what would they
What were they saying about sea can you just say more detail?
What were they saying about seafloor spreading?
It's a very nice phrase, but you you imagine two hands together like that, bottom of the sea, and they spread out from one another.
Did was that what they were saying?
What were they saying?
Magna under the crust.
Magma magma under the crust of the Earth.
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