Summary
Time: Laurie Taylor considers the extent to which the way we spend our time has changed over the last fifty years. Is it true that we are working more, sleeping less and addicted to our phones? What does this mean for our health, wealth and happiness? Oriel Sullivan, Professor of Sociology of Gender at the UCL, has taken a detailed look at our daily activities and found some surprising truths about the social and economic structure of the world we live in. Also, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Distinguished Scholar at Barnard College, examines the pressure to do more in less time. Which people are the most rushed & why - from France and Germany to the UK and Japan.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:00.0 | Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of |
| 0:07.0 | Happiness Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want |
| 0:14.4 | to share that science with you. |
| 0:16.1 | And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley. |
| 0:19.4 | I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that |
| 0:25.4 | calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.3 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Laurie Taylor and this is a podcast for BBC Radio Four's thinking aloud. |
| 0:42.0 | I wonder, how are you spending your time these days, how much is spent |
| 0:46.0 | on work, on love-making, on eating, on sleeping, on keeping fit, and how much does that use of time |
| 0:52.0 | vary for men and women and for different nationalities around the world? |
| 0:57.0 | Find out here. |
| 0:59.0 | Last night I spent more than four hours sitting in my local cinema roughly half an hour watching |
| 1:05.1 | adverts and trailers and exactly exactly three and a half hours watching what I later |
| 1:09.4 | learned was an edited version of Scorses the Irishman. Well on the walk back home the |
| 1:15.0 | sort of occasion when couples tentatively tease out the extent of their |
| 1:18.2 | agreement about the film they've just seen, I sort of more or less enjoyed it did you I wondered aloud about the sheer length of the movie |
| 1:26.8 | Three and a half hours I said over two hundred minutes I mean that's awful lot of time to devote to one film. |
| 1:33.8 | Quite unlike the six hours you devote to watching television sport on a Saturday, |
| 1:40.3 | said my partner, reaching her purse for the house key. |
| 1:44.0 | We do seem to have very strong ideas about the length of time that is appropriate for distinct |
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