Re: e Restless Sphere, BBC, June 30, 1957
Thank you, I was 9 and a half at the time, but I do remember a couple of things. The crossing of the Antarctic by Hillary and Fuchs, and , but obviously most famously the launching of Sputnik 1 in October of 1957. I don't remember the findings of confirmation of the mid-ocean ridge and the start of plate tectonic theory. The film of the eruption of Vesuvius in 1944, my father was in Naples at the time during WW2 as part of the eighth army chasing Germany up the country.
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