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Something Understood: Keeping Time

Keeping Time

01/05/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Something Understood, Keeping Time

Irma Kurtz reflects on clocks and our need to measure 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 
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