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World Service,03 Jun 2000,30 mins

The Beginning of Time

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Why all time is measured from Greenwich in London. Astronomer Robert Massey on the inception of Greenwich Mean Time and world time zones. Also on the programme, how Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue climbed the 700m Corcovado mountain.

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