Summary
We chat with Pete Buttigieg, the US transportation secretary about today's draft COP26 climate change agreement, life as a working parent in the US and the MP sleaze row.
Also, a new study suggests that the best time to get to sleep is between 10pm and 11pm. So, when are you meant to listen to Newscast? Dr Nerina, the sleep expert, knows when to put your head down. Zzzzzzzzz. Today’s Newscast was made by Ben Cooper and Alix Pickles. Michael Regaard is the studio director. Sam Bonham is the assistant editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, an opportunity has presented itself to combine a news story with you doing some |
| 0:11.0 | free market research for me. |
| 0:13.2 | We'd love to know what time you actually listen to this podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | Is it before bed? |
| 0:17.8 | Have you just woken up? |
| 0:19.2 | Are you out doing a walk or a run? |
| 0:21.8 | And it's the afternoon. Let us know at newscast at BBC.co. |
| 0:27.0 | UK I'd be fascinated to find out and the news story that this is linked to, the Peg, as we'd say in the journalism trade, |
| 0:36.0 | is some research that was out this week, which suggested that the sweet spot for going to bed is between 10 PM and 11 PM and that could actually have some pretty |
| 0:44.8 | major health benefits like potentially reducing your risk of heart attacks, although obviously |
| 0:50.9 | lots of other factors go into that too. |
| 0:53.0 | But it is also another great opportunity to talk about one of my favorite subjects, |
| 0:57.0 | Sleeping, which we're going to do now with the physiologist |
| 1:01.0 | and the author of the book, Tiredired But Wired how to overcome your sleep problems |
| 1:05.0 | an all-round sleep expert Dr Nerena Ram Lecan. |
| 1:08.9 | Dr Norena, hello Adam. |
| 1:11.9 | I obsess over how much sleep I get because of my bizarre working patterns but let's not make it all about me. |
| 1:17.0 | What do you think about this research that's come out about bedtime? |
| 1:20.0 | Well it's music to my ears to be honest, because I've been helping people to sleep for way over 25 years. |
| 1:27.0 | And a unique aspect of my sleep methodology, my sleep protocol, is to advise people to get to bed earlier so that they can capitalize on their natural circadian rhythms. |
| 1:38.0 | You know our physiology is perfectly set up to give us good sleep, but we've got to get ourselves in alignment |
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