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World Service,09 Jan 2016,40 mins

A Very Long View

The Forum

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How good are we at making connections over time? Remembering our own pasts, or the way history has unfolded, or seeing the big patterns of development, invisible to the naked eye? This week on the Forum Bridget Kendall and guests focus on the long view: tracking the small changes which shape a person over a year, or a society over decades, or which alter the genetic make-up of humans over tens of thousands of years. With artist Tom Mosser, sociologist Alison Park and geneticist Eske Willerslew. Photo: Artist Tom Mosser and his portrait collection (credit: Tom Mosser)

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