The Tyranny Of Time

Series	Episode	First Broadcast	Description
A	01	19991118	Mechanical timekeeping has been transforming our lives for centuries, but time discipline has been a constant human battleground. In the first of three programmes, Chris Bowlby traces the struggle for time control, from the medieval clock via the Victorian timetable to computer driven acceleration.
A	02	19991125	Chris Bowlby presents the second of three programmes on how time measurement changed the world. As railways, telegraphs and submarine cables made the 19th-century dream of international timetabled uniformity seem possible, plans were developed to abolish everything from deviant local clocks to excessive sleep.
A	03 LAST	19991202	Chris Bowlby presents the last of three programmes on how time measurement changed the world. As atomic clocks measure fractions of a second and technology constantly accelerates the pace of life, what has happened to the human sense of time?