Sleep
A selection of programmes and clips relating to sleep
The Mattressphere—The Sleep Diaries
Beds are the places we withdraw to, away from currents of society and community.
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Sleep - Hysteria—All in the Mind
The power of sleep to improve memory and why hysteria isn't a thing of the past.
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Modern lifestyle ‘damaging our body clock’
The BBC's James Gallagher looks at how technology & lifestyle affects our body clocks.
Dreams—In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the function and interpretation of dreams.
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The Crossing—The Sleep Diaries
Why do we sleep, and why do many of us find crossing the threshold of sleep so difficult?
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Waking Life—Short Cuts, Series 5
Josie Long presents a sequence of mini documentaries in which reality becomes dreamlike.
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Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism; Sociology of Sleep—Thinking Allowed
Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism. Also, the sociology of sleep.
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The Politics of Sleep - Women Who Kill—Thinking Allowed
Laurie discusses the politics of sleep and women who kill.
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In Dreams—The Sleep Diaries
In deep sleep, where the places we go are unlimited - does dream interpretation matter?
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Testosterone; Antidepressants in Pregnancy; Laptop Use at Night and Sleep; Shifting School Times—Inside Health
Do the hours spent on laptops or tablets before bedtime disrupt your sleep?
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The Defeat of Sleep
Pallab Ghosh investigates the potential effects of anti-sleep drugs on society.
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3am Eternal—The Sleep Diaries
Paul explores the dead of night.
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Walking in Your Sleep—The Sleep Diaries
Paul explores the uncanny world of sleep disorders and sleep talk.
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