Jun 27, 2022
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
This one should help you sleep, as it’s so boring I lost track of what I was saying as I was reading this! I think it’s mostly about people breeding domestic animals? I did live edit some pretty racist stuff out so be warned if you look it...
Jun 20, 2022
In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells
Fall asleep to this week’s podcast retelling one of HG Wells’ lesser known works. It’s supposed to be an apocalyptic story, but we’re busy at the moment with the romantic attempts of an embarrassing teenager. Hope you’ll be asleep before we get to the really cringy...
Jun 13, 2022
Sleepy Time with a Return to Little Women
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A sleep podcast can be tricky, because I need to engage you without it being too interesting. So fiction can be a risky proposition. Happily, despite the charms of the story, Little Women is far from action packed. So your slumber won’t...
Jun 6, 2022
The book of the ancient Greeks: An Introduction to the History and Civilization
This week’s sleep podcast takes the desperate insomniac to the founding of Mediterranean civilisation, with the history of the nation of Minos.
We learn, if we stay awake of course, about the possible founding of the nation, about...