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Episode 3

Kate Humble is in the Arctic, where spring arrives with a bang. Helen Czerski chases a tornado to show how the earth's angle of tilt creates the most extreme weather on the planet.

Right now you're hurtling around the sun at 64,000 miles an hour (100,000 km an hour). In the next year you'll travel 584 million miles, to end up back where you started.

Presenters Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, to witness the astonishing consequences this journey has for us all.

In this final episode we complete our journey, travelling back from the March equinox to the end of June. Kate Humble is in the Arctic at a place where spring arrives with a bang, whilst Helen Czerski chases a tornado to show how the earth's angle of tilt creates the most extreme weather on the planet.

59 minutes

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Wed 13 Oct 2021 23:50

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Role Contributor
Presenter Kate Humble
Presenter Helen Czerski
Producer Arif Nurmohamed
Director Arif Nurmohamed
Executive Producer Jonathan Renouf
Series Producer Stephen Marsh

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