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Radio 4,4 mins

Are you afraid of the dark?

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How has the way we react to darkness and light changed over the past 200 years? Tim Edensor, Reader in Cultural Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University examines how artists, religion and the invention of electric light changed our interaction with light and dark.

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