I Think I’ve Been Here Before

To mark Groundhog Day, writer Ross Sutherland explores the joy that comes from repetition. Repetition is everywhere. Repetition is persuasive. Repetition is fun. Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

The music we like, the games we play - it all seems to revolve around the pleasure of repetition. After all, familiarity provides comfort.

Our jobs are loops. Our social lives are loops. Are we into infinity because we are not infinite? The loop, unlike us, never dies.

Ross Sutherland looks at the behavioural grooves that we return to, the concepts of pattern, memory and déjà vu

Produced by Hana Walker-Brown for BBC Radio 4