Really enjoyed these two radio 4 podcasts:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r4choice/
Tempus Fugit 04 Dec 09
Ian Peacock finds out what is going on in our brain when we perceive time. He discovers why, when we're young, summer holidays seem to stretch forever, but as we age, those precious two weeks in the sun are over in a flash. He looks at how we measure time and how it can be distorted in our minds, and asks what we can do to make the most of the precious time we have.
1989 - Restitching the City
Rosie Goldsmith goes underground in Berlin, searching out the men and women involved in reunifying the city below street level, examining how the tubes, telephone, water and electricity systems of east and west were reconnected after the fall of the Wall. When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, the world saw images of ecstatic Berliners celebrating a new freedom of movement across their city. But after the jubilation had died down, council chiefs were faced with a task without precedent in any city in the world. Public transport in the two halves of the city was in chaos and the main arteries of Berlin became clogged with polluting Trabants; using the telephone was an infuriating experience; utility companies faced similar problems trying to bring together two systems which had developed completely separately.
