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The Tyranny of Time

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Chris Bowlby on how time measurement changed the world. As railways, telegraphs and submarine cables made the 19th-century dream of international timetabled uniformity seem possible, plans were developed to abolish everything from deviant local clocks to excessive sleep. Producer Chris Bowlby

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