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Keeping Time

Irma Kurtz reflects on clocks, punctuality and our need to measure time.

The history of our clocks is practically as long as our history. Other creatures seem content to hear and obey their inner clocks but from the early days - perhaps when we saw how our shadows changed throughout the day - we wanted desperately to attempt a hold on time.

In 'Keeping Time' Irma Kurtz reflects on clocks, the connection of timepieces to navigation and the way in which we make punctuality a virtue.

The readers are Liza Sadovy and Jonathan Firth.

Presenter: Irma Kurtz

Producer: Ronni Davis
An Unique production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 1 May 2011 23:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • FranΓ§ois Couperin

    Le Reveil Matin

    • Ambroisie/Naive.
    • B00270M0PO.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction (L'Heure Espagnole)

    • Deutche Grammophon.
    • LC00173 / 423719-2.

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    I Didn't Know What Time It Was

    • The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Book.
    • Verve.
    • LC00383 / 825 024-2.

  • Weather Report

    Dream Clock

    • Night Passage.
    • CBS.
    • LC00149 / CDCBS 84597.

  • Carlos Gardel

    Volver

    • The Best of Carlos Gardel.
    • Blue Note Records.
    • LC00133 / 23505.

  • Johnny Cash

    My Grandfather's Clock

    Track 23.

    • The Fabulous Johnny Cash / Songs of Our Soil.
    • Columbia.
    • LC0162 / 494896 2.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 1 May 2011 06:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 1 May 2011 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4