Sleepy Time Tales - Bedtime Stories for Sleep and Relaxation

It’s a milestone for Sleepy Times Tales, this is episode 400 of this show and it’s heading for 5 years of helping people sleep. Thaks very much to those who have listened, supported on Patreon or in the tip jar, shared and been in contact over the years.

We pick up this week with the collected essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Drift off as we get lost in his prose and philosophical musings.

Find Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hi friends. I’m still a little under the weather and don’t want to risk my throat, so here’s another old favourite for you.

For this week’s bedtime story we return once again to the adventures of Lizzie Bennet as she visits her friend Charlotte as the new bride of Mr Collins.

She gets to know Lady Catherine a bit better and Mr Darcy comes to visit, but things are getting strange. Does he have feelings for her?

Find Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342

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Hey Friends, I’ve been a little under the weather, so I’ve been unable to record. So, here’s a listener favourite to keep you going. Thanks, Dave

For this week’s sleepy story we return to learning about the nesting habits of various birds, starting with the common and charming wood pigeon.

There is some cruelty of nature here, but the charm of the actions of our feathered friends will help you settle down to sleep.

Find Birds and their Nests by Mary Howitt

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68416

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As you prepare to sleep tonight, learn about the end of the reign of Justinian, and also his importance to the history of the legal profession as he codified the many laws of the Roman Empire to something cohesive.

And you will probably be snoring by the time we get to the formation of the Frankish Empire and the brutal kins of that nation.

Find The Dark Ages, 476-918 by Charles Oman

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61536

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I started reading this early early apocalyptic novel years ago and it’s taking a long road to reach where it’s going. But the boring stories of some of the worst people you have ever heard from are sure to help you sleep.

Raymond and Perdita continue to break each other’s hearts through lack of communication and putting each other on pedestals, and their friends are trying to intercede before everything collapses. But it really is a boring read and reminds me I never liked Frankenstein either. So it’s great for bedtime.

Find The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18247

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As you prepare to sleep get ready to continue to explore the industry of Birmingham. Learn about how steel industries and galvanic plating revolutionised everything from cutlery to décor.

Rides on Rails this may be, but nary a train is in this bedtime reading.

Find Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13271

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For this sleepy reading we finish off the early 20th century work by Arthur Elson. Learn how changing society meant that more women were active in music careers all around he world and which composers were contemporary with the publication of this book in 1903.

The book finishes early and I have a few poetry readings from the Patreon in the end to help you fall asleep.

Find Woman's Work in Music by Arthur Elson

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Lizzie Bennet continues to read letters from Mr Darcy and comes to terms with unpleasant truths about the ‘wonderful’ Mr Wickham. She also faces up to the problems with her own family that Darcy brought up and realizes that her own family may not be the social paragons she believed.

But I’m sure you will be asleep before she faces the truth on facing her own family again.

Find Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Did you know that it was once a widespread belief that Mars had canals? It was much debated through the early 20th Century and tonight’s bedtime reading is from an astronomy book from back when people thought it may be possible! 

As you prepare to sleep learn about the great debate, the challenges involved in looking at our neighbour and also learn about what was though to be required for life on other planets.

Find Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David P. Todd

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39142  

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Close your eyes, settle under the covers, and let the quiet rhythms of classic literature drift you off to sleep. In tonight’s soothing bedtime story from Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, we softly follow a quiet conversation between Katharine Hilbery and Ralph Denham as they reflect on their contrasting lives, before family drama unfolds with Katharine's uncle Cyril.

 This calm, relaxing audiobook reading is designed to quiet a busy mind, relieve bedtime anxiety, and ease you into a deep, peaceful sleep. Turn down the lights, relax your body, and sleep well. 

Find Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1245

 *note I am experimenting with helping searchability by using AI to write my descriptions, nothing you hear is touched by any AI, it's all me* 

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