Podcasts

# About Time

A 5-episode probe of our complex relationship with time – from how we think and talk about it, to how we experience it. Separating scientific truth from social construction to understand what it truly means to live with time.

With insights from  

[Carlo Rovelli](https://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/)

Physicist

[Chris Sinha](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris-Sinha)

Linguist

[Marc Wittman](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marc-Wittmann)

Neuropsychologist

[Paul Glennie](https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media/experts/jsp/public_view/expertDetails?personKey=vORkZVE1Dn6Ob6v7P1mzXMd7cqqNZx)

Historian

[Vera da Silva Sinha](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vera-Da-Silva-Sinha)

Anthropologist

Episodes

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Carlo Rovelli

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Part 1 of the About Time series, this episode explores how different cultures talk about time, and whether language can shape how we think about it.

[The Language of Time](/podcasts/episode-1-the-language-of-time/)

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Vera da Silva Sinha

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Part 3 of the About Time series, this episode takes a closer look at the subjective time — the time we ‘feel’ — to see how our brains create our sense of time.

[The Psychology of Time](/podcasts/episode-3-the-psychology-of-time/)

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Marc Wittman

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Part 2 of the About Time series, this episode explores the theories and thinkers that have shaped our scientific understanding of time.

[The Physics of Time](/podcasts/episode-2-the-physics-of-time/)

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Paul Glennie

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Part 5 of the About Time series, this episode explores the Western social construction of countable time – from the creation of days through to atomic clocks.

[The Construction of Time](/podcasts/episode-5-the-construction-of-time/)

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Marc Wittman

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Part 4 of the About Time series, this episode explores our biological experience of time – seeing how circadian rhythms, illness, and age impact it.

[The Physiology of Time](/podcasts/episode-4-the-physiology-of-time/)

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