Podcast Episodes

049 – 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…

6 years, 3 months ago

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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.

 

Will this scholarly tome and its compari…

6 years, 3 months ago

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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.

 

A zookeeper …

6 years, 3 months ago

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046 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – Just A Girl

Episode 46

 

 

 

Tonight’s story to help you sleep is from a work by Charles Garvice.

 

 

A rough Australian mining town in the 19th Century is a strange place …

6 years, 4 months ago

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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…

6 years, 4 months ago

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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…

6 years, 4 months ago

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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…

6 years, 4 months ago

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042 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – Under Two Flags

Episode 42

 

042 – A Sleepy Bedtime Reading – Under Two Flags

 

A tales of class and the military, sometimes fascinating, sometimes soporific. You’ll find sle…

6 years, 5 months ago

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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…

6 years, 5 months ago

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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 …

6 years, 5 months ago

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