Sleep, Sleeplessness and Creativity
Rana Mitter discusses why people sleep, with expert on the human body clock Russell Foster and comedian and insomniac Matt Berry.
We spend nearly a third of our life doing it and we still don't really know why so Rana Mitter explores why we sleep with pioneering researcher into the body clock, Russell Foster; Matt Berry, actor, comedian and writer who wrestles with insomnia; Brigitte Steger who has explored Japanese and other global sleeping cultures and Katharine Craik, a renaissance scholar whose new opera project for children is called Watching...back in the 16th century the watching hours were part of a segmented sleep pattern which only disappeared with the industrial revolution.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith.
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Duration: 13:30
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Rana Mitter |
Interviewed Guest | Russell Foster |
Interviewed Guest | Matt Berry |
Interviewed Guest | Brigitte Steger |
Interviewed Guest | Katharine Craik |
Producer | Jacqueline Smith |
Broadcast
- Wed 7 Jan 2015 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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