BBC Countryfile Magazine

Ellie Harrison

“Like Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi, darkness wasn’t the villain we thought it was all along. As technology has allowed us to light up the night to protect us from the dark, it turns out to have been the very thing that harmed us. Our circadian clocks are now quite out of whack, giving us daytime physiology after dusk: alert brains, higher heart rate,

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