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Jan 2022
28m 21s

Has the pandemic affected our memories?

THE TIMES
About this episode

Sunday Times special correspondent Josh Glancy explores how the pandemic and successive lockdowns have left us in a brain fog struggling with the concept of time.

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Host: Manveen Rana.

Guest: Josh Glancy, Sunday Times special correspondent.

Clips: The Guardian, The New Yorker


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