Misha Glenny reveals his wife Kirsty Lang’s advice as he replaces Melvyn Bragg for Our Time

Like the two million people who tune in to learn, Glenny was particularly captivated by one episode: the January 2008 program on plate tectonics. He remembers being in a hurry to leave but needing to hear the conclusion, which was that life as we know it wouldn’t exist without these shifting plates. “It was amazing!” he said.




![The stabilized modes exhibit kinetic action proportional to the expression [latex]\big((-k\_{0}^{2}+\vec{k}^{2})(k\_{0}^{2}-\vec{k}^{2}/5+0.1)-0.015+0.355k\_{0}^{2}\big)[/latex], indicating a complex interplay between initial and propagated wave vectors, modulated by constants that define the system’s inherent stability and responsiveness.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.08031v1/x5.png)


