Why Constantinople Never Ran Out of Water. Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: A Keeper Hears the City Breathe, A Fall of Water Across Thrace, Under Roof and Open Sky, and When the Line Is Cut.

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 Keeper Hears the City Breathe

52:55 A Fall of Water Across Thrace

1:25:59 Under Roof and Open Sky

1:53:01 When the Line Is Cut

2:21:07 Fire ambience

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

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What a Wild West Saloon Actually Served After Dark. Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: Brown's Last Lamp, What the Ground Kept, The Price of the Lunch, and Canvas, Timber, Ledger.

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 Brown's Last Lamp

55:42 What the Ground Kept

1:30:01 The Price of the Lunch

1:58:34 Canvas, Timber, Ledger

2:27:14 Fire ambience

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

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Why Pompeii's Bakeries Started Before Dawn. Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The First Batch in the Dark, Keeping the Mill Court Moving, A Loaf Finds Its Place, and Reading the Workday Backward.

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 First Batch in the Dark

50:40 Keeping the Mill Court Moving

1:22:36 A Loaf Finds Its Place

1:49:03 Reading the Workday Backward

2:16:04 Fire ambience

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

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How Skara Brae Survived a Stone Age Winter. Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Last Round Before Rest, A Joint Before the Next Wet Night, What Remains Usable, and The Honest Label.

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 Last Round Before Rest

51:47 A Joint Before the Next Wet Night

1:24:39 What Remains Usable

1:51:56 The Honest Label

2:19:12 Fire ambience

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

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How a Viking Longhouse Stayed Warm Through Winter. Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Warm Circle Around the Hearth, The Partition and the Winter Arithmetic, Work in the Fire's Narrow Light, and The House That Must Be Kept.

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 Warm Circle Around the Hearth

52:32 The Partition and the Winter Arithmetic

1:24:13 Work in the Fire's Narrow Light

1:49:03 The House That Must Be Kept

2:15:10 Fire ambience

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

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Why Were Medieval Nuns Awake at 3 A.M.? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Night Has Its Own Hours, The Woman Who Keeps the Order, Carrow Without a Clock, and What the Night Leaves Behind.

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 Has Its Own Hours

54:02 The Woman Who Keeps the Order

1:26:07 Carrow Without a Clock

1:54:02 What the Night Leaves Behind

2:21:24 Fire ambience

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

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What Did Medieval Monks Do Between Midnight and Dawn? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Winter Office at Bury St Edmunds, The Sacrist's Quiet Mismatch, The Cell Door at Mount Grace, and What the Evidence Can Hold.

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 Office at Bury St Edmunds

52:23 The Sacrist's Quiet Mismatch

1:23:49 The Cell Door at Mount Grace

1:50:21 What the Evidence Can Hold

2:21:47 Fire ambience

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

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Why Did Medieval Watchmen Call Out Every Hour of the Night? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: A Ward Watch After Curfew, The Beadle's Night List, The Wait, the Bell, and the Clock, and Putting the Cry Back in Its Century.

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 Ward Watch After Curfew

49:33 The Beadle's Night List

1:20:57 The Wait, the Bell, and the Clock

1:46:57 Putting the Cry Back in Its Century

2:17:47 Fire ambience

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

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Why Were Victorian Servants Up at 5 A.M.? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The invisible first hour, Two hands, one timetable, The next place, and What the record can carry.

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 invisible first hour

51:05 Two hands, one timetable

1:23:38 The next place

1:50:25 What the record can carry

2:18:55 Fire ambience

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

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Why Did Medieval Bakers Start Work at Midnight? Settle in for a calm, softly spoken history for sleep story built for bedtime listening.

Tonight's connected stories: The Bakehouse That Does Not Own a Midnight, The Grain Arrives Before the Loaf, A Loaf on the Hingham Scale, and How Late Can the Evidence Stay Up?.

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 Bakehouse That Does Not Own a Midnight

50:53 The Grain Arrives Before the Loaf

1:21:17 A Loaf on the Hingham Scale

1:46:37 How Late Can the Evidence Stay Up?

2:15:18 Fire ambience

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

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