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Dead Media: 4: The Clock of the Long Now

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Francis Spufford digs into the history of four media inventions and discovers what each one says about our relationship with the mechanised world.
Can an invention calibrated for ten thousand years defy death?

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Presenter:
Francis Spufford
Producer:
Simon Coates

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