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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

59. Sat on a Volcano! Edinburgh

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast Neil enters a city fizzing with new idea. In the late C18th and early C19th Edinburgh was the beating heart at the centre of what many people have called the Scottish Enlightenment. The intellectual thinking generated here was recognised around the world with men and women of genius said to be on every street with new ways of thinking bussing around every part of the city.

It was here, inspired by the city’s physical location - sat on a volcano - that James Hutton developed revolutionary ideas about how the world was created. Ideas that went counter the accepted thinking of the day. Hutton became known as the father of geology and was one of the first thinkers to contemplate deep time and confront us with our insignificance in the face of eternity.


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0:00.0

The 15 million pound Lotto Super Saturday jackpot must be won this Saturday.

0:04.5

Or thousands of you will win a share of the prize.

0:06.7

But who will it be?

0:07.7

Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that.

0:10.6

Well speed walk down the shop and get yourself a ticket.

0:13.1

Lotto will you be next play in store or on app the national lottery account terms

0:17.6

rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over.

0:20.0

Hello fellow time travelers I hope you're well. To help support this

0:27.1

podcast please sign up to my Patreon.com site it gives you exclusive access to new videos every week. The last two

0:35.8

videos were about D-Day and buried Viking treasure. The site's packed full of

0:40.0

history, current affairs and a whole lot more. To get your hands on it, go to

0:43.8

Patreon.com and search for me, Neil Oliver. It'd be great to see you there.

0:48.4

In the meantime, here's the next episode of my love letter to the British Isles.

0:54.4

Queue the music. It's so important to acknowledge the people that come along from time to time, men and women,

1:10.0

who, unlike the rest of us, who just accept the orthodoxy that look at the evidence again and say to themselves and eventually to other people.

1:18.8

I don't think so. I don't think that's right.

1:35.0

In this podcast, we're climbing up a volcano with new scientific ideas fizzing around our ears. From the late 18th to the early 19th century,

1:39.0

Edinburgh buzzed with new ways of thinking.

1:42.0

It was a time when the city was said to be filled with

1:44.9

geniuses and it became known as the center of the Scottish Enlightenment.

1:51.0

It's a place where the bare bones of the world are exposed for all to see.

1:57.0

Against the prevailing beliefs of the day, one man dared to ask questions that had never been asked before.

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