I've done Dickens (David Copperfield for the BBC), and now the George Eliot, but I've also done The Sleeping Dictionary set in the 1930s, and been a medic in Black Hawk Down.
It's also well established that dolphins sleep with one brain hemisphere at a time, and recent research suggests that we may also do the same when sleeping in a strange place, in order to be more vigilant.
The 50-Day Excuse (October 15 , 2012 What would you do if the sleeping passenger next to you woke up and began to scream in a language you didn't understand?
While some people do take the sleeping pills for months at a time, others use over-the-counter antihistamines or prescription antidepressants that have sedation as a side effect.
Although he marks each mound with a piece of debris to signal that a body lies there — primarily to avoid digging up an old corpse when he's burying a new one — he knows no more than the authorities do about the "sleeping people" he lives among.
Thus did the first sleeping pills introduce the phrase "prescription only" into the American lexicon.
"It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, fresh, blowing about".
But in 1987, with two colleagues, I started a temperature and infection study, and we did include the sleeping position, because scientists in the Netherlands and Australia had no data but they did have a lot of careful observation that made them think it was important".
The complex histories that lead people live on the streets remain the same, as does the damage rough sleeping causes.
When the food arrives and you're all done eating, set up the sleeping bags in the big empty room.
