A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Apollo, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.

The whole story of the god of light, music, healing and prophecy, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.

He was given more to look after than any of the others, which is part of why his story goes on so long. He arrived on an island that had been floating until his mother came looking for somewhere to give birth, and he seems to have been fully himself within days. What follows is the killing of the serpent at the place that became his, the oracle that Greeks travelled to for a thousand years and came away from more confused than when they arrived, the music that nobody could beat him at and the two who tried anyway, and the healing that he was said to have handed down to a son who took it too far. There's also everyone he loved, which almost never ended well, and a river of grief running underneath all that gold. He was the most civilised of them and the least forgiving, and both of those things are in nearly every story about him.

But the point of this recording isn't really the story. It's the hour or two spent drifting through it. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence sits at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.

That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere on the island where he was born and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.

Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.

Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales, Hindu epics and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.

A slow, quiet retelling of the story of Durga and the demon nobody could kill, made for falling asleep to.

The whole story, told from the beginning and at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.

It begins with a problem the gods couldn't solve. A demon had been granted something that made him untouchable by any of them, and he had worked out exactly where the gap in his own protection lay, and there was nothing in the heavens shaped to fit through it. So they made her. Every one of them gave up a piece of their own power, and what stood up out of that was something none of them had expected and none of them could have managed alone. What follows is a long war fought in changing shapes, an enemy who kept becoming something else every time he was cornered, and an ending that arrives exactly the way it always had to. She is worshipped for nine nights every year because of it, and has been for a very long time.

But the point of this recording isn't really the story. It's the hour or two spent drifting through it. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence sits at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.

That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere before the battle starts and wake up long after it's over, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.

Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.

Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales, Hindu epics and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.

A slow, quiet history of the vampire, from long before anyone wrote a novel about one, made for falling asleep to.

The whole story of the restless dead, told at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.

The vampire didn't start out as a count in a castle. For most of its history it was something much older and much sadder: a body that hadn't settled, someone who had been buried wrong, or died wrong, or simply died unhappy, and came back because there was nowhere else to go. Nearly every culture had a version. So there are the very old stories from the ancient world, the long stretch of village belief across Europe, the graves that were opened and the things people did to the bodies they found, the strange official panics of the seventeen hundreds when governments sent doctors out to investigate, and the slow drift from something feared in the churchyard to something written about in books. It's less a monster story than a story about how people used to think about death.

But the point of this recording isn't really the history. It's the hour or two spent drifting through it. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Nothing in it is built to frighten you. Every sentence sits at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.

That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere in the ancient world and wake up two centuries later, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.

Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.

Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.

Persephone: Complete Story of the Goddess Who Lived Between Two Worlds | Greek Mythology for Sleep

A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Persephone, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.

The whole story of the goddess who belonged to two worlds, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.

She started as a girl in a field of flowers and ended up a queen in a place nobody wants to go. What happens in between is the oldest kind of story there is: a daughter taken, a mother who searched the whole earth for her, a bargain made underground that couldn't be undone, and a compromise that split her life in half forever. It's also, quietly, the story of why the world turns cold every year and then comes back. She's the only one of them who lives in both places, and she never seems entirely out of place in either.

But the point of this recording isn't really the story. It's the hour or two spent drifting through it. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence is built to sit at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.

That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere in the field and wake up much later, far underground, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.

Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.

Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.

Sekhmet: Complete Story of Egypt’s Lion Goddess Who Nearly Ended Humanity | Mythology for Sleep

A slow, quiet retelling of the story of Sekhmet, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.

The whole story of Egypt's lion goddess, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.

She was made for one purpose, and she was very good at it. What follows is where she came from, why she was sent out, and what happened when it turned out there was no way to call her back. There's a night that nearly ended people altogether, and a trick that stopped it, and a goddess who woke up the next morning as something gentler than she had been. After that she stayed on as both the thing that brought plague and the thing that took it away, which is a strange job for anyone, and the Egyptians spent centuries keeping her calm. Hundreds of statues of her still survive, more than of almost any other Egyptian god, and there's a reason for that.

But the point of this recording isn't really the story. It's the hour or two spent drifting through it. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence is built to sit at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.

That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere near the beginning and wake up much later, well past the part that matters, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.

Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.

Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.

A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Athena, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.

The whole story of the goddess who was born fully grown, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.

She arrived in the strangest way any of them did, and she never quite stopped being her father's favourite because of it. What follows is the goddess of wisdom and of war, which are not usually the same thing, and the long list of people she chose to stand behind. There's a contest over a city that still carries her name. There are heroes who only survived their stories because she decided they should. There's a mortal woman who was better at something than a god, and what that cost her. Athena rarely lost her temper, and the few times she did are the parts everyone remembers.

But the point of this recording isn't really the story. It's the hour or two spent drifting through it. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence is built to sit at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.

That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere around the beginning and wake up much later, in the middle of a story you've missed the start of, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.

Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.

Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.

Hades: The Complete Story of the God Who Ruled the Greek Underworld | Greek Mythology for Sleep

A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Hades, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.

The whole story of the god who ruled the Greek underworld, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.

He was never the villain the modern versions make him out to be. He was the brother who drew the worst lot, took the kingdom nobody wanted, and then stayed there. What follows is how he came to rule it, the shape of the world he ruled over, the marriage that everyone remembers him for, and the handful of living people who came down looking for something and had to face him to get it. He kept his word more often than most of the gods above him did, and he almost never left his own kingdom, which is part of why so few stories about him survive.

But the point of this recording isn't really the story. It's the hour or two spent moving slowly through the dark. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence is built to sit at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.

That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere on the way down and wake up much deeper in, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.

Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.

Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.

A slow, quiet journey through the old folklore of Slavic and European lands, made for falling asleep to.

Hours of gods, spirits and half-remembered legends, read at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.

These are the stories that came out of forests and rivers and long winters, told by people who lived close to all of it. Old gods who were worshipped for centuries before anyone wrote their names down. Spirits that belonged to a particular house, a particular pond, a particular stretch of woodland, and had to be kept on good terms. Figures who came out at certain times of year and not others. Some of it is strange, some of it is gentle, and a lot of it was simply a way of explaining a world that hadn't been explained yet.

But the point of this recording isn't really the legends. It's the hour or two spent drifting through them. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence is built to sit at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.

That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere in the forest and wake up much later, deep in another story entirely, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.

Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.

Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Slavic and European folklore, Egyptian tales and old stories from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.

A slow, quiet journey through the Egyptian underworld, gate by gate, made for falling asleep to.

Hours of old Egyptian belief and story, read at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.

The Egyptians mapped the land of the dead the way other people map a country. It had a geography, and a night that had to be crossed from one side to the other. There were gates along the way, each with its own keeper, its own name, and its own thing that had to be said before you were let through. There were guardians waiting in the dark, halls where the dead had to answer for the life they'd lived, and a scale where the answer was weighed. And there was a sun that made the same crossing every single night, and came back up in the morning, which was the whole point of telling any of it.

But the point of this recording isn't really the destination. It's the hour or two spent moving slowly through the dark. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence is built to sit at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.

That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere before the first gate and wake up much deeper in, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.

Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.

Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales and old folklore, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.

The Greatest Adventures of Thor Across the Nine Worlds | Norse Mythology for Sleep

A slow, quiet journey through the adventures of Thor, told across the nine worlds and made for falling asleep to.

Hours of old Norse stories, read at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.

Thor was never the wisest of the gods, and that's most of the appeal. He travels. He crosses into places he probably shouldn't. He goes up against giants, and against things much older and stranger than giants, and he doesn't always come out ahead. There are long roads, uneasy welcomes in halls that aren't quite what they seem, contests that turn out to have been rigged from the start, and a hammer that goes missing more than once. Somewhere behind all of it is the sense that even the strongest of them knew how this was all going to end.

But the point of this recording isn't really the stories. It's the hour or two you spend not quite listening to them. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence is built to sit at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.

That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. The stories are just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere on the road out of Asgard and wake up in a hall full of giants, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.

Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.

Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends and old folklore, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.