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Interactive Time

A journey through time and a look at how we measure our existence

World Service,12 episodes

Episodes

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Back in Time
In search of the beginning of time
21 Jun 2000,13 mins
Circles of Time
Time follows a natural cycle through days, months and seasons
06 Jul 2000,13 mins
Rhythms of Life
Don't you love it when you wake up naturally in the morning?
13 Jul 2000,13 mins
Arrow of Time
The sense of time passing has been described as an arrow of time
27 Jul 2000,13 mins
Mechanical Clocks
What makes the mechanical clock tick?
03 Aug 2000,14 mins
The Triumph of the Clock
How accurate timekeepers came to save thousands of lives at sea
03 Aug 2000,13 mins
Living by Clock Time
Our perception of time varies depending on our state of mind
04 Aug 2000,14 mins
The World's Standard of Time
Dividing our time into minutes and hours dates back to the Mesopotamian era
10 Aug 2000,14 mins
Calendars
Things would be chaos without some way to measure time
16 Aug 2000,14 mins
Time Travel
Is time travel theoretically and practically possible?
24 Aug 2000,13 mins
Eternity
Does eternity exist, or is there an end to time?
05 Sep 2000,13 mins
Timing Systems in Sport
Sporting events are timed to hundredths of a second
11 Sep 2000,13 mins