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Back to Search049 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – The Last Man
Episode 49
Before she wrote Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man. It’s a potentially interesting story, but you’ll be asleep before anything exciting h…
6Â years, 3Â months ago
048 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
Episode 48
The seminal work of history and anthropology by Sir James George Frazer was controversial even in its day.
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Will this scholarly tome and its compari…
6Â years, 3Â months ago
047 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – In Search of the Unknown
Episode 47
Tonight’s story to help you sleep is from a work by Robert William Chambers. A fascinating bedtime story, but slumber will still come.
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A zookeeper …
6Â years, 3Â months ago
046 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – Just A Girl
Episode 46
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Tonight’s story to help you sleep is from a work by Charles Garvice.
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A rough Australian mining town in the 19th Century is a strange place …
6Â years, 4Â months ago
045 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – The Swampers
Episode 45
Of sleep, psychics and scoundrels
The paraphernalia of the fortune teller? Are some for real? Maybe, but many are charlatans.
Sleep comes when…
6Â years, 4Â months ago
044 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Episode 44
Where does Santa come from. What is the root of his spirit of generosity? Will you be sleeping by the time he reaches his epiphany? Let’s Hope so!
Fr…
6Â years, 4Â months ago
043 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – Sailing Alone Around The World
Episode 43
The beginning of a grand adventure often isn’t exciting. The detailed account of rebuilding a ship will help you sleep as the various merits of timb…
6Â years, 4Â months ago
042 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – Under Two Flags
Episode 42
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042 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – Under Two Flags
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A tales of class and the military, sometimes fascinating, sometimes soporific. You’ll find sle…
6Â years, 5Â months ago
041 – That Alchemy – Sleeping in Mutewallow 04
Episode 41
The history of alchemy may put you to sleep. But a day at the store isn’t a snooze. Join our intrepid host as he tries to bring you the truth, but wi…
6Â years, 5Â months ago
040 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – The Star
Episode 40
Tonight’s story from H.G. Wells takes a dark turn, but the way I tell it you won’t find sleep a stranger. Earth has a close cosmic encounter with an …
6Â years, 5Â months ago