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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read another excerpt from “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame, published in 1908. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

This story centers around four small animals: Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger. Their stories take place in the countryside of Edwardian England.

If you’d like to start with the first episode, it aired on March 22, 2021. To follow along easily in order, go to snoozecast.com/series.

In the last episode, a crowd of chilly field mice sing a Christmas Carol at the mole’s front door, and Mole and Rat invite them in for some mulled ale and a delicious meal.

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Tonight, we’ll read selections from “The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands” by Edmund Selous, written in 1905.

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The author started as a conventional naturalist of his time, but Selous developed a disdain of the common practice of killing animals for scientific study. He was a pioneer of peaceful bird-watching as a method of scientific study. The author was a solitary man and was not well known in ornithological circles. He avoided both the company of ornithologists and reading their observations so as to base his conclusions entirely on his own observations. He has gifted future generations with his beautiful and intuitive writing on birds.

The island of Shetland is the northernmost part of Scotland. It has a complex geology, a rugged coastline, and many low, rolling hills. The islands have produced a variety of prose writers and poets, who have often written in the distinctive Shetland dialect of the Scots language.

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Tonight, we’ll read a Snoozecast-adapted excerpt titled “The Manor at Birlstone” taken from “The Valley of Fear” written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 

The novel was the fourth and final in a series we have read from during the second half of this year. It started with “A Study in Scarlet” which aired on June 9th, 2021. You can listen to all episodes from our Sherlock sleep story series at snoozecast.com/series.

In this story, Holmes deciphers an encrypted message that warns of a nefarious plot against a country gentleman named Douglas who lived at Birlstone House, an ancient moated manor. 

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight we shall read the next part to “Peter Pan”, the 1911 novel by J.M. Barrie. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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When we left off, Peter and the boys vanquish the pirates, and take over the ship. They set sail for the mainland to take Wendy and her brothers home. Then we catch up on what has been transpiring in the Darling household during their absence.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read “King Awkward and Princess Sweetheart” an adaptation by Snoozecast of “Princess Sweetheart” from “The Pink Fairy Book” edited by Andrew Lang. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

This story was originally found in the “Library of Genius and Fairies” written by Madame de Murat, a French aristocrat and writer of the late 1600s. She published many stories that she first debuted at the fashionable literary salons of her time, and was considered one of the leaders of the “fairy-tale vogue.”

After several years of success and recognition, Madame de Murat was imprisoned and then exiled, being accused of debauchery and “shocking practices and beliefs”. Although she failed at an attempt to escape wearing the disguise of men’s clothing, she did continue to write her body of works for several years after that.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to our “Magic Cloak” series, from the book “Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak”, a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and published in 1905. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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In the last episode, Aunt Rivette flies King Bud and Princess Fluff to the land of Ix, in hopes of receiving help from Queen Zixi in overcoming the Roly-Rogue invaders. Zixi, now reformed into a truly good witch, reveals that she stole the real magic cloak, and left it behind in the lilac grove. She offers to help the children retrieve it and take back their kingdom. In return, Fluff happily offers to help Zixi use the cloak to grant her wish of looking young and beautiful in mirror reflections. But first, they must stay for a royal feast.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ “The Nutcracker of Nuremberg” story, originally published in 1844. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

Dumas’ version of The Nutcracker was itself adapted from the original, written by E.T.A. Hoffman. However it was Dumas adaptation that gave inspiration to the famous “Nutcracker” ballet composed by Tchaikovsky.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read from “How to Make Money” by John V. Dunlap, published in 1922. This guide to making money may have served up inspiration to the entrepreneurial-minded of the day. The schemes include starting a neighborhood pantry, along with candy making, doughnut making, starting a kindergarten, and editing an interesting column in a newspaper. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to the classic children’s story “Heidi”, published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.

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In the previous episode, the Grandmama agrees to allow Clara to stay up on the alp with Heidi and Grandfather. She has a splendid time, and starts to grow stronger by the day. Peter, the young goatherd, seems to be growing angrier by the day but does not explain why. Plans are made to take the girls higher up the alp the next day to experience sitting amongst the wildflowers and grazing goats with Peter.

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Tonight, we’ll read all about old-fashioned puddings from “The White House Cook Book” written by the house stewards in Washington DC, and published in 1887.

The original “pudding” was formed by mixing various ingredients with a grain product or other binder such as butter, flour, cereal, eggs, and/or suet, resulting in a solid mass. These puddings are baked, steamed, or boiled. Depending on its ingredients, such a pudding may be served as a part of the main course or as a dessert.

Christmas pudding is a type of pudding traditionally served as part of the Christmas dinner in Britain and British-influenced cultures.

Despite the name of "plum pudding", that particular pudding contains no actual plums due to the pre-Victorian use of the word "plums" as a term for raisins.

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