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Life Without Standard Time

Spring Forward, Fall Back or what if we just didn鈥檛? Alan Davies looks at how our circadian rhythms would be impacted if we simply stopped changing the clocks.

Spring Forward, Fall Back or what if we just didn鈥檛? In this episode of Life Without, Alan Davies looks at how our circadian rhythms would be impacted if we simply stopped changing the clocks.

Some scientists have argued to do away with the twice-yearly clock change in order to see some beneficial impacts on our health. So why have some parts of the world adopted this system while places like Russia and Mexico don鈥檛 use it at all?

This episode features Aarti Jagannath, a leading chronobiologist and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, and Dr Rebecca Struthers who is a watchmaker, author, historian and Honorary Research Fellow at University of Birmingham.

An ITN production for 麻豆社 Radio 4

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Sat 11 Apr 2026 05:45

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  • Fri 10 Apr 2026 14:45
  • Sat 11 Apr 2026 05:45

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