Geology
Keep Digging. Audio, 28 minutes
Mary-Ann Ochota asks why we can send probes to deep space, but not to the earth's mantle.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Science In Action. Volcanic Hydrogen Redefines the Habitable Zone. Audio, 27 minutes
Hydrogen from volcanoes may mean previously dismissed exoplanets are habitable
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Brainwaves. Series 4, Professor Iain Stewart. Audio, 28 minutes
Pennie Latin meets Iain Stewart, professor of geoscience communication.
- AttributionBBC Radio Scotland
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The Life Scientific. Jan Zalasiewicz on the Age of Man. Audio, 28 minutes
Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz talks to Jim Al-Khalili about the Anthropocene, the Age of Man.
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Chalk. Audio, 15 minutes
Alyson Hallett on being drawn to chalk landscapes and the large horse at Westbury in Wilts
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Fire Rocks. Audio, 15 minutes
Novelist Sarah Moss discusses basalt and dolerite, the fire rocks that underpin castles.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Coal Mines. Audio, 15 minutes
Writer Paul Evans traces a family line back through Shropshire's seams of coal.
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Millstone. Audio, 15 minutes
Poet Helen Mort reflects on the Peak District's Stanage Edge, famed for its millstone grit
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The Essay. Cornerstones, Quartz. Audio, 15 minutes
Linda Cracknell reflects on the appeal of the quartz on Ben Lawers, her local Munro.
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The Life Scientific. Hazel Rymer on volcanoes. Audio, 28 minutes
Hazel Rymer talks volcanoes with Jim Al-Khalili.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Open Country. Gainsborough's Nodding Donkeys. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark visits the nodding donkeys of the Gainsborough Trough.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Open Country. The Naze in Essex. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark explores the hidden landscape of the Naze in Essex.
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The Cliff. Zoe Shipton on Geological Cliffs. Audio, 14 minutes
The geological history of the earth as revealed by three cliffs and some boreholes.
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Andy's Dinosaur Adventures. Eustreptospondylus and Ammonite. Video, 14 minutes
Andy travels back 149 million years, to the time of the ammonites.
- AttributionCBeebies
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Frontiers. Plate Tectonics and Life. Audio, 28 minutes
Roland Pease on the idea that life on early Earth led to the evolution of plate tectonics.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Open Country. Lyme Regis. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark visits Lyme Regis' Undercliffs, a jungle created by 200 years of landslips.
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Frontiers. Anthropocene. Audio, 28 minutes
Has humanity launched a new geological time period? Gaia Vince on the Anthropocene Epoch.
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Open Country. White Cliffs of Dover. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark meets Dame Vera Lynn to discuss an iconic landmark, the white cliffs of Dover.
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Frontiers. 09/11/2011. Audio, 30 minutes
Exploring Antarctica's subglacial lakes for new lifeforms and future sea level rise clues.
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In Our Time. Plate Tectonics. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines plate tectonics, a theory that transformed our idea of the earth.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Frontiers. The Earth's Core. Audio, 30 minutes
Peter Evans examines new insights into the earth's core.
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- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Ageing the Earth. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines the age of the Earth and its division into four great Eons.
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- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Vulcanology. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the formation and eruption of volcanoes.
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- Available for over a year
