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Radio 3,04 Jun 2021,44 mins

Time Scales - Experiments in Living

The Verb

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Ian McMillan on how language and poetry affect our perception of time. In this Verb he explores the language of slowness with Oxford University geographer Professor Danny Dorling, asks poet Rachael Boast to read time-bending poetry from her new collection 'Hotel Raphael' (and also to take us deep into the different time-modes and time-zones inhabited by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Philosopher Roman Krznaric explains how to write about future time and how to be a good ancestor, and Verb regular, stand-up poet Kate Fox offers an insight into the smooth running of book groups for other species: the slow-reading flies, and the fast-reading deep sea isopods. Suggestions for a time-themed Book Club: Danny Dorling - Slowdown Roman Krznaric - The Good Ancestor Rachael Boast - Hotel Raphael

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