Sleep Special – with Prof Russell Foster

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this series of special editions of BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing, Michael Mosley quizzes the world’s leading health experts on the best ways to live well. In this Sleep Special, we hear from Professor Russell Foster - Director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford and one of the world’s leading researchers on what makes our body clocks tick. We hear the top tips that Professor Foster lives by to improve the way we sleep and live. How many hours do we really need to ensure a refreshing slumber? What is our chronotype and can we adapt it? And what are the dos and don’ts of sleep hygiene that we should all follow? And as this is a Just One Thing special, we'll end each interview by asking Professor Foster for the one single most effective health hack to get a good night’s rest.

Producer: Dom Byrne Production Manager: Maria Simons Editor: Zoe Heron Specially composed music by Richard Atkinson (Mcasso) A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them?
0:06.0	Anonymity is our most valuable gift.
0:09.0	I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self.
0:16.0	Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer.
0:20.0	Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B.
0:24.1	I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things.
0:30.0	Young again, with me, Kirstie Young. Listen on BBC Sounds.
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0:40.0	You're back to listen to just one long thing with me Michael Mosley.
0:45.0	Episodes will be released on Wednesdays wherever you get your podcasts.
0:49.0	But if you're in the UK you can listen to the latest episode a week early, first on BBC Sounds.
0:56.0	Welcome to just One Long Thing, a series of special editions of my BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing,
1:10.0	where I quiz the world's leading health experts on the best ways to live well.
1:15.0	From talking to strangers to boost happiness, to aging disgracefully to live longer,
1:20.4	I'll be learning the top tips that the experts swear by to maximize your health and well-being.
1:26.0	And as this is a just one thing special, I'll end each interview by asking our expert to choose the one personal health hack that they would say is the single most effective way you can improve your life.
1:43.0	In this sleep special, I'm delighted to be joined by Professor Russell Foster,
1:47.0	who is director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford.
1:52.0	Russell is one of the world's
1:54.4	leading researchers into what makes our body clocks tick.
1:58.4	Hello Russell, great to have you with us.
2:00.0	Great to be here Michael. Now we have all heard about our biological clock otherwise known as our
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