How Was a Portuguese Caravel Provisioned for Months? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Arithmetic Below Deck, The Cooper and the Failing Cask, Bread Made for Waiting, and A Working World in One Hull.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 The Arithmetic Below Deck

49:50 The Cooper and the Failing Cask

1:21:23 Bread Made for Waiting

1:47:37 A Working World in One Hull

2:16:15 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

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What Polish Salt Miners Did Underground at Wieliczka. Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: A Shift Below Daylight, The Miner Who Left the Salt Behind, The Man Who Tried to Make the Mine Legible, and The Photographer Who Kept the Old Workings Visible.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 A Shift Below Daylight

52:06 The Miner Who Left the Salt Behind

1:24:15 The Man Who Tried to Make the Mine Legible

1:50:04 The Photographer Who Kept the Old Workings Visible

2:15:53 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

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How Did a German Charcoal Burner Live in the Forest? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Mound That Cannot Be Left, Building a Fire That Must Not Burn, A House Beside the Smoke, and Where the Black Fuel Goes.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 The Mound That Cannot Be Left

49:48 Building a Fire That Must Not Burn

1:20:28 A House Beside the Smoke

1:46:38 Where the Black Fuel Goes

2:14:54 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

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What Did a French Village Do During the Grape Harvest? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Day the Harvest Would Not Wait, Whose Press Is It, Anyway, The Year Before the Basket, and Supper Between the Loads.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 The Day the Harvest Would Not Wait

53:03 Whose Press Is It, Anyway

1:26:06 The Year Before the Basket

1:52:33 Supper Between the Loads

2:21:07 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

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How Did a Scottish Blackhouse Keep Out an Atlantic Winter? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The House That Keeps Its Head Down, The Roof Must Be Earned, Winter Fuel Begins Wet, and A House Still Remembered.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 The House That Keeps Its Head Down

48:10 The Roof Must Be Earned

1:18:54 Winter Fuel Begins Wet

1:44:21 A House Still Remembered

2:13:15 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

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How Did Swiss and Savoyard Mountain Passes Stay Open in Snow? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Night Watch on the Great St Bernard, A House That Fed the Pass, The Dogs Without the Barrel, and Poles, Guides, and Other Alpine Houses.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 The Night Watch on the Great St Bernard

48:09 A House That Fed the Pass

1:18:24 The Dogs Without the Barrel

1:43:25 Poles, Guides, and Other Alpine Houses

2:13:33 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

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How Did a Spanish Monastery Keep Its Bees? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The season of wax, The sacrist's measured light, The jars beside the kitchen wall, and Hands that remember the hive.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 The season of wax

48:56 The sacrist's measured light

1:19:43 The jars beside the kitchen wall

1:46:03 Hands that remember the hive

2:15:31 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

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What Did a Hanseatic Warehouse Hold Through Winter? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Winter Ledger in Lubeck, The Herring Season at Scania, Winter Rooms at Bryggen, and When the Harbor Moves Again.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 The Winter Ledger in Lubeck

49:35 The Herring Season at Scania

1:19:54 Winter Rooms at Bryggen

1:47:13 When the Harbor Moves Again

2:17:42 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

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Who Actually Built the Great Medieval Cathedrals? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: One Course of Stone, The Timber Under the Stone, The Cathedral in the Accounts, and Reading the Hands That Remain.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 One Course of Stone

51:33 The Timber Under the Stone

1:23:56 The Cathedral in the Accounts

1:50:50 Reading the Hands That Remain

2:19:35 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

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What Did It Take to Blow Glass on Murano Before Machines? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Cup and the Whole Furnace, Keeping the Furnace Able to Work, Rules That Tried to Hold a Craft in Place, and What the Glass Still Lets You Know.

More than two hours of softly spoken narration with gentle fire ambience to help you fall asleep, ease insomnia, relax, study, or enjoy as quiet background while you read. The humour is lightest at the start and fades as the episode becomes calmer.

Chapters:

0:00 The Cup and the Whole Furnace

50:32 Keeping the Furnace Able to Work

1:23:18 Rules That Tried to Hold a Craft in Place

1:49:25 What the Glass Still Lets You Know

2:20:41 Fire ambience

Fire ambience: "Little fire.ogg" by Glaneur de sons, CC BY 3.0.

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsZneUYXYB8MyH-hFfIilkg