A world going on underground
How would you feel if you spent more and more of your life underground? Could that be our future? Presenter Marnie Chesterton and the panel dig into subterranean science.
How would you feel if you spent more and more of your life underground? Could that be how more and more of us live in the future? Presenter Marnie Chesterton and panellists Candice Bailey in Johannesburg, South Africa and Tristan Ahtone in Helsinki, Finland dig into subterranean science. Did you know around a million people live underground in China's capital Beijing? Have you heard of the race to dig the deepest hole in the Earth? In this episode we explore how humans have been digging deep for over 3,000 years explorer Christian Clot tell us why living underground with no contact to the world above was a nicer experience that you might expect.
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- Fri 24 May 202409:06GMTBBC World Service
- Fri 24 May 202423:06GMTBBC World Service
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