Time, Telephone Ring, 10,000-Year Clock

Studio 360

We look at time. Host Kurt Andersen and physicist Alan Lightman examine time as a creative tool in movies, in painting, in fiction, and in real life. And a sound designer charts the evolution of the telephone ring.

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