A journey through time and a look at how we measure our existence
World Service,Β·12 episodes
In search of the beginning of time
Time follows a natural cycle through days, months and seasons
Don't you love it when you wake up naturally in the morning?
The sense of time passing has been described as an arrow of time
What makes the mechanical clock tick?
How accurate timekeepers came to save thousands of lives at sea
Our perception of time varies depending on our state of mind
Dividing our time into minutes and hours dates back to the Mesopotamian era
Things would be chaos without some way to measure time
Is time travel theoretically and practically possible?
Does eternity exist, or is there an end to time?
Sporting events are timed to hundredths of a second
