Podcast Episodes

Sleepy Greek History is the recipe for a restful night

Episode 172

The book of the ancient Greeks: An Introduction to the History and Civilization

This week’s sleep podcast takes the desperate insomniac to the f…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Sleep with a Trip Among the Planets as we learn more History of Astronomy.

Episode 171

 

Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David P. Todd

Fall asleep with this week's podcast as we move through history and learn the s…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Early Science Fiction is a strange thing to help you sleep, but it will work

Episode 170

The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World by The Duchess of Newcastle

Proto-SciFi from 1666(!) is the method to get you to sleep …

3 years, 10 months ago

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We’ll help you Sleep with Pride and Prejudice

Episode 169

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

A classic story that won’t keep you from sleep as not very much happens in tonight’s episode. One Bennet sist…

3 years, 10 months ago

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Sleep Will Be Inevitable As You’re Introduced to Plato’s Republic

Episode 168

The Republic by Plato

Slumber waits in the wings as we work through the history and context of Plato’s great work. It may be interesting, but I …

3 years, 10 months ago

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Sing to Sleep with the History of Women in Music

Episode 167

Woman's Work in Music by Arthur Elson

Sleep will come quickly as I essentially just list a whole lot of female composers and musicians from main…

3 years, 10 months ago

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Sleep Paints a Picture Through the History of Art

Episode 166

A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

You’ll fall asleep with tonight’s…

3 years, 11 months ago

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See Sleep Clearly with the History of Glass

Episode 165

Old Glass and How to Collect it by J. Sydney Lewis

Tonight’s cure for your insomnia is a little history of the production of glass in England. W…

3 years, 11 months ago

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Sleep Will Sneak Up Thanks To Political Manoeuvring in the Last Man

Episode 164

 

The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Whew, I struggled to stay awake recording this one. The self-important posturing of would be kings …

3 years, 11 months ago

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Rock to Sleep with Geology

Episode 163

The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton

I don’t often guarantee that you will get to sleep, but learning about how rock decays i…

3 years, 11 months ago

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