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much, much more about thinking aloud, go to our website at BBC.co. UK. B. said 515 a.m. which meant there were

roughly 17 minutes to wait before radio fork could be switched on. Frankly I

regard listen to the world service in the morning as dangerously decadent and I do like to skip the

first part of the shipping forecast you know the coastal stations bit and I only

switch on for inshore waters because then I can follow the weather right around the

coast and during that waiting time I always calculate

whether I've had quite enough sleep. Now I did stay up a bit late for last

night's interview with Philip Roth so probably into bed by 1230, then half an hour getting to sleep,

half an hour in which Liverpool won the Premier League and Juliet Binosh confirmed her

undying love.

So that means I've had good four and a half hours. So if I now doze intermittently through the today program until

730 that'll give me six and a half hours. Quite enough for someone my age. Who needs more?

And that's a question aroused my new paper in the journal

Sociology of Health and Illness called Managing sleep and Wakefulness in a

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