Beyond Today
Beyond Today
BBC Radio 4
Why can’t we sleep?
19 minutes Posted Feb 14, 2020 at 5:30 pm.
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Insomnia affects about a third of adults in the UK according to the NHS. It also says adults should be getting between 7 and 9 hours sleep a night, but very few of us actually get that. We speak to Samantha Harvey who has written a book called ‘The Shapeless Unease’ about her year of not sleeping. We also speak to Stephanie Romiszewski, a sleep physiologist and director of The Sleepyhead Clinic in Exeter. She came into the Beyond Today Studio to give us her top 5 tips for a good night’s sleep.

Presenter: Matthew Price

Producer: Katie Gunning
Mixed by Emma Crowe
Editor: Philly Beaumont