Melvyn Bragg

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1,061 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 2d ago

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In Our Time · Archive: Plate Tectonics · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

So a subversive both countries.

Let's let's talk about uh uh the

how this discovery uh this idea uh fed into the notion of what the earth is.

uh in in more detail.

Can I start with you, Lynn?

Um it's often referred to p as r paradigm shift in in scientific understanding.

How has it changed the way that we think about the planet?

Richard, Richard Gaulfield.

Jo Can you tell us briefly how the movement of plates influences the oceans, for instance?

I didn't

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By indirections, yes.

The can you t tell us, um, Lynn, how th this might tie in with I'm sure people are thinking about um James Lovelock and the Gaia theory, which came out in sixty nine, around about the same time as uh n near enough.

Can you tell uh how on if it ties in with that theory by tectonics?

Sorry.

But the idea of this th this theory of the theory of the earth as it seems to me that they're slightly in opposition again theory and the the theory coming out of play tectonics.

What do you say, Richard Cornville?

I think you got carried away with the gladness.

I don't think that's what he's saying.

Uh do you want to say what you were saying or do you want Lynn to come in with

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