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Jacqueline Smith

Free Thinking: Sleep, Sleeplessness and Creativity

Sleep, Sleeplessness and Creativity

07/01/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Sleep, Sleeplessness and Creativity

Rana Mitter discusses sleep, with neuroscientist Russell Foster and comedian Matt Berry.

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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