Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults

Tonight's story to help you sleep is Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. Published as a serial from 1864, this is Gaskell's final novel. It follows the daughter of a country doctor called Molly ...

23 Jan 202231min

Tonight's bedtime story is The Brave Little Tailor. A Grimms' fairy tale collected in the Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Also known as The Valiant Little Tailor. This is a story of a tailor that uses...

16 Jan 202221min

Tonight's sleepy tale is The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim. Published in 1922, it is the story of four disparate women who travel to a medieval castle in Italy for a holiday. In this episode,...

13 Jan 202235min

Struggling to fall asleep? Quiet your mind with Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne. Published in 1872, this story is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. In this episode, exactitude personifie...

9 Jan 202245min

Tonight's bedtime story is the continuation of a listener favourite: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This classic Canadian novel was published in 1908. It follows the adventures of Anne ...

6 Jan 202238min

Tonight's sleep story is the Paradise of Children, a retelling of the classic myth of Pandora's Box by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This story was first published in 1920 in his collection of stories called "...

2 Jan 202237min

Happy Holidays! Our second episode of the week is a bit early. If you're stressed because of the holidays, listen to the conclusion of A Christmas Carol. Or start from the first episode published last...

24 Dec 202148min

Tonight's story to help you sleep is the continuation of the Christmas classic: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In this episode, Scrooge is visited by the first spirit: The Ghost of Christmas Pa...

23 Dec 20211h 35min