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Radio 4,14 Mar 2017,15 mins

SeriesSeries 5

The World That Turns

Curious Cases

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"Why does the Earth spin?" asks Joe Wills from Accra in Ghana. Hannah quizzes cosmologist Andrew Pontzen about the birth of the Solar System and why everything in space seems to spin. Is there anything in the Universe that doesn't revolve? BBC weatherman John Hammond explain to Adam how the rotation of the Earth creates our weather systems and the strange things that would happen if we spun the opposite way. Send your Curious Cases for consideration to: [email protected] Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford Producer: Michelle Martin.

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