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Misha Glenny delves in to the In Our Time archive to select ten episodes for listeners to revisit. His fourth choice, first released in January 2008, explores how the science of plate tectonics revolutionised our understanding of the planet on which we live. America is getting further away from Europe. This is not a political statement but a geological fact. Just as the Pacific is getting smaller, the Red Sea bigger, the Himalayas are still going up and one day the Horn of Africa will be a large island. This is the theory of plate tectonics, a revolutionary idea in 20...
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- 226 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. I'm going to go to the This is In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 and this is one of more than a thousand episodes you can find in the In Our Time archive. A reading list for this edition can be found in the
episode description wherever you're listening. I hope you enjoy the programme. I've chosen Plate-Tectonics for the latest of our summer selection from Melbourne Braggs in our time because I was listening to the programme live when it first went out almost twenty years ago and it literally stopped me in my tracks.
I was heading out the door in a rush but became so fascinated by the discussion I cancelled my meeting in order to finish listening to Melbourne and his guests. Until this point, my only engagement with plate tectonics was as a rather bored twelve-year-old in my school learning about how earthquakes are caused when two tectonic plates rub each
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