Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWoodworking for Beginners, by Charles G. Wheeler, Part 3
Let's saw our way to sleep with more from this helpful guide for the novice woodworker. This time, we build our own work bench, improvise a vise, a…
1 year, 8 months ago
Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply, by Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Part 2
Let's relax with more from this wonderful guide to studying art in Europe. This time, where to shop in London, the best boarding houses, and then we'…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged, by Nicholas Culpeper, Part 1
Let's, uh, improve our health with this compendium of questionable herbal advice from 1650. But first, the kind of sleep-inducing, self-congrat…
1 year, 9 months ago
A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 8
Let's hop in our sleepy wayback machine and relax with more from this remarkable little history of everything. This time, the Roman Empire, Hanni…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, Part 1
Let's journey to sleep with Henry David Thoreau as he explores the back of beyond in Maine, ponders the fate of forests, visits some barely-there t…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Book of Werewolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould, Part 3
Let's celebrate the spooky season with more from this history of lycanthropy and a long chapter of wolfish folktales. Bears, hares, and dogs drinking…
1 year, 10 months ago
Faery Lands of the South Seas, by Hall and Nordhoff, Part 3
Let's sail the seas of sleep with more from this marvelous travelogue from the South Seas. This time, we encounter a waterspout and get happily m…
1 year, 10 months ago
Astronomy for Young Folks, by Isabel Martin Lewis (Part 9)
Let's fall asleep with a new reading from this wonderful look into our universe. This time, we contemplate the phases of the moon, the life and dea…
1 year, 10 months ago
Old Country Inns of England, by Maskell and Gregory, Part 1
Let's fall asleep with a new listener request! This time, we travel back in time to learn the origins of that most pleasant and cozy of places, the c…
1 year, 10 months ago
New Recording! 1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalog 1 - Pharmacy
Let's close out our month of new versions of old episodes with a fresh recording of our very first foray into the 1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Consumers…
1 year, 10 months ago