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Really loved the show. Not wanting to knock Brian Cox, who does a good job in reaching out to a certain sector, I found the greater scientific content of ORBIT much better for me (with physics knowledge). For example, I didn't understand the Coriolis force when taught as an undergrad ... it's now clear! So very well done indeed Kate and Helen.
As for certain negative comments I've read: twitter is a great place for people to vent, it saves NHS mental health resources ... once again, be proud of a scientifically literate show with fab graphics and presenters.

Loved the programme - I'm a lot more clued up on Coriolis force. Well done!!!

Very basic stuff - mostly things I learned in Junior school - wouldn't it have been better on children's TV?
And the non-stop background music was very irritating - what on Earth do you hope to achieve with it? Patrick Moore doesn't need it, so neither do you!

Absolutely loved this first episode. Basic? @eamonn_shute i think not. Great graphics and photography and the Science had my head spinning at times.

Dr Helen Czerski was impressive!

Extremely interesting and fascinating - but thought Kate Humble was not really needed! Helen Czerski extremely interesting and put the science across very well indeed. Looking forward to the next episode.
Susanne Umerski

Well, they might have dramatically upped the budget for GCSE geography bitesize but I think there will be a lot of kids failing if this is what they use to revise!

A pretty good compromise between educating and entertaining, what planet are you on Eamon?, the music and effects add to the enjoyment, and the producers need to decide on an intellectual level that will appeal to as many people as possible, I certainly didnt learn all about this at junior school, or maybe my head was in the clouds as a result of the coriolis effect, at least now I know why!! Dr Helen Czerski, new Ö÷²¥´óÐã rising star?? (no pun intended).
Well done Ö÷²¥´óÐã. Can I have my F1 back now please?????

really good serie, I have enjoyed it from minute 1 to the end... congratulations!! Just one question... Where about in Equator is the road where the speed isnt the one that car shows ?

I must admit this isnt what i would normally look into but wow watching this has enlighted me, veryÌýintriguing. Well done on capturing it all.

Interesting and entertaining programme bringing back things I learnt at school and expanding on others, tho I really wish that it wasn't so heavily performed in metric, British people just don't want to know how many kilometers distances are. Sorry!

Many things to like (and one or two to dislike) about this program. IMO, there is always room for nature to be explained better - and this does a wonderful job on the Earth's nature and how it is influenced by its immediate space context. I hope a future episode covers the Milankovitch cycles.

The Ö÷²¥´óÐã production standard is stunning - the writing is wonderful, the graphics and filming are superlative and Ty Unwin's score is enigmatic

Is it just me, or does Dr Helen Czerski spoke with virtually the same accent and intonation as Brian Cox? Sorry to say it this way - but - put a wig on Prof. Cox and you have Dr. Czerski - to me. In fact, I found her voice incredibly patronising (this is unfashionable to say but I find Prof. Cox, at times, a tad patronising on his astronomy programmes (but NOT his physics programmes – he is among the most inspiring Physicist I have ever come across)).

But Dr. Czerski's voice was genuinely tiring and, IMO, VERY patronising - I was genuinely close to turning the programme off because of her voice. Kate Hummel was on the other hand exquisite and treated her audience with the intelligence it has.

Kevin Nolan,
Dublin, Ireland.

I only saw it was on at the last minute and missed part of the program. As is often the case it was not said when it was being repeated so missed it on HD. This program covered the bits like trade winds that I struggled with at Geography O level. I would really love to see this again and record it so that we can discuss it as a family. iplayer is no substitute for TV. We haven't all got interactive TV with Broadband access. When will it be repeated properly?

Sub-Primary school level, patronising stuff. Waste of time (and when will you stop using the cliched format of "Tell us what you're going to say, say it, tell us what you told us"?).

wonderful program, just wondering if there will any fact sheets available about this program?

Interesting subject for a science programme (note the proper spelling elizabeth and lemansdave) but turned off when distances were given in kilometres which are meaningless for most of the UK population that still thinks in miles. If distances and speeds really have to be given in kilometres then why not given them as well in miles or is that asking too much.

An interesting and informative programme.

The view of Earth from space of the Sun shining on the arctic circle demonstrated the reason for the Norwegian everlasting twilight very clearly.

Narration over music is almost always annoying but thankfully the music is quite pleasant and not at all intrusive.

Like most documentaries nowadays one has to skip the first 5 minutes past the pre-introduction introduction, pre-title introduction and post-title introduction - why not just say what's the programme's about and then get started? Then we could get 5 minutes more of interesting stuff.

@walwright: 1 mile is approximately 1.6 kilometres. Metric is the international standard for science and is perfectly fine system of units to use for a science programme. I'm comfortable using imperial or metric - but don't give both at the same time. It quickly gets tiresome. And read the story of the Mars Climate Orbiter on why unit systems shouldn't be mixed!

A point I have to pick up on though is Dr Helen Czerski said the weather is not chaotic. I could be wrong but, I'm sure if she asked the guys at the Met Office they'll say the weather is precisely chaotic. I assume she would already know chaotic does not mean random and this was just a slip of the tongue. Or should this comment be directed at the script writer?

Also to the script writer: it might be a quirk in your spell-checker but here in Britain we say anticlockwise rather than the American counter-clockwise.

The explanation of tides slowing Earth was a bit too science-light (the tidal forces cause the Earth to lose energy and transfer it to the Moon, the Earth's rotation slows and the Moon's orbital velocity increases and its orbital distance increases.) This is Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two after all - is a more complete explanation engaging or overwhelming?

Great production and I look forward to the next episode!

We have lived in France since 1993. We have a window facing east and at the first winter solstice we noticed the Sun rose at the far right of our land border and at summer solstice it rose at the far left of our land border. The length of that side is approximateley 350 metres. This year at Winter solstice the Sun rose half way between the fer right and the far left and at last year's summer solstice it was at the same distance further to the left. We believe that over those twenty years, the earth's poles have shifted accounting for the changed position of the sunrise. Has anyone had similar experiences and what do the scientists say about this change?

Excellent. Perfect pop science, this is what I pay my licence fee for. Clear science explained without jazzy tricks of camera, you found someone who can keep a camera in focus and steady - marvellous- there aren't many about, apparently. You put presenters in without either heroic poses (Cox, Oliver) or, thank heavens, without any jolly banter (Bradbury and Dennis). Lovely simple graphics helped me understand the topic which is the goal, surely, of the broadcast. What a relief to find female presenters, was getting increasingly alienated by the ubiquity of male presence. Men are all fine and lovely but it just gets BORING and indicates lazy TV production.
But I cannot concentrate on the words if you play music over the text, please, music OR speech not both at same time.
Grateful viewer.

I enjoyed this programme and found it informative, but the section on "the fastest road on earth" had me questioning the reliability of the scientific facts. Speed is relative, and to say that the car is travelling faster just because it is on the equator is pure rubbish.
Please avoid pandering to the lowest common denominator of scientific ignorance with this tripe

I watched and enjoyed the programme, brought back memories to Geography lessons at school!

Where exactly in Norway was it filmed? It looked like the Lofoton islands in the background.

Thanks

I just sat and read through the archive for the whole 12 months. Very interesting and it has kept me captivated for 4 hours. Thank you for making these interesting programs and sharing your progress as you go.

When will episode 2 be broadcast on HD Channel

Very interesting programme, but surely, as it is broadcast at 9pm, after the watershed, it would be better presented in a grown up fashion, rather than the primary school style which it is. These are undoubtedly two very nice ladies, but they sound as though they are talking to children.

What a terribly disapointing series! Slow, dumbed down, stating the blindingly obvious with a pretence of wonder e.g. "it seems amazing that its still frozen inthe arctic when there are daffodils at home" Really? And the background muzak is really annoying. It sounded such a good idea. Poor show.

Hello Aira

I and my daughter have just managed to watch with Episode 1 on iPlayer. We both learnt a lot from it, and are looking forward to sitting down to Episode 2.

However, I have a non-scientific query: are you able to tell me what the music is that was used during the explanation of the jet stream in Episode 1 (at 55:16-56:30 here: /iplayer/episode/b01d7kd5/Orbit_Earths_Extraordinary_Journey_Episode_1/%29?

This piece has been used in several documentaries, but I've so far not managed to find anyone who can identify it. Are you able to help? I'm hoping there is a record of the music used in bbc documentaries that is easy to find.

I hope you can help, because this piece has been bothering me for some time!

Many thanks.
Bill

Fantastic - thanks Aira!

Ö÷²¥´óÐã's "Earth's Extraordinary Journey" Series, scientists admited they heated up the atmospehere during tests, but i need to find how they did this for the video i am making.
In Ö÷²¥´óÐã's program "How Satellites Rule Our World" they commented how the air above the japan earthquake heated up before the event. !!

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