WS More or Less: Dozy Science
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Anxiety around sleep is widespread. Many of us feel we don’t get enough. An army of experts has sprung up to help, and this week we test some of the claims from one of the most prominent among them: Professor Matthew Walker. He plays ball and answers some of the criticisms of his bestselling book Why We Sleep.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.8 | We are your friendly guide to the numbers that explain our lives, and I'm Tim Haafard. |
| 0:09.4 | Today... |
| 0:18.9 | Sleep... we love it. |
| 0:21.2 | We need it. |
| 0:22.6 | But whether you're a new parent being woken through the night, or a teenager roused too early |
| 0:28.0 | for school every day, or even just a hard working radio presenter trying to hit one book deadline |
| 0:33.9 | too many, you might feel you're not getting enough of it. |
| 0:37.7 | Many people do. |
| 0:38.7 | That is why there's a whole industry of sleep experts. |
| 0:42.8 | And among the most popular is... |
| 0:45.1 | Matt Walker! |
| 0:47.6 | Neuroscientists and best-selling author Matthew Walker. |
| 0:50.8 | Press and Matthew Walker joins us now. |
| 0:53.0 | His book, Why We Sleep, became an international bestseller in 2017. |
| 0:58.2 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:59.8 | The book reached Moscow. |
| 1:01.3 | A lot of my friends were reading it, and they were all recommended it. |
| 1:05.4 | That's Alexey Guzi, an independent researcher with a background in economics. |
| 1:10.3 | And they figured, well, since this book seems to make such a big impact on all of my friends, |
| 1:16.5 | maybe I should read it, and maybe I should learn more about how to sleep well and why we sleep. |
| 1:22.0 | He got reading and noticed what he thought were mistakes, so he checked them out and wrote up his findings on his blog, |
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