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CrowdScience

Why am I always late?

April 18, 2025

26 minutes

Available for over a year

CrowdScience listener Sid is running late, and he’s turning to science to find an excuse. He and his partner Steffi in Singapore have very different attitudes to timekeeping. They wonder if this is down to their different cultural upbringings, or if they just had very different brains to start with.

Presenter Chhavi Sachdev puts her own time perception skills to the test to try to understand how subjective our sense of time can be. And we discover how the language we grow up speaking can influence the way we think about punctuality.

Presenter: Chhavi Sachdev

Producer: Emily Bird

Editor: Cathy Edwards

Production Co-ordinator: Ishmael Soriano

Studio Manager: Jackie Margerum