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World Service,13 May 2016,17 mins

Time Perception

The Why Factor

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Mike Williams asks why some weeks just fly by but sometimes minutes can seem like hours? Why do we perceive time differently in different circumstances? Mike talks to Pakistani writer and broadcaster Raza Rumi; Claudia Hammond, author of Time Warped; David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at the Baylor College of Medicine at Houston and John McCarthy, a British journalist taken hostage in Lebanon in 1986. (Photo: Hands of a clock over female silhouette. Credit: Shutterstock)

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