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, ad-free listening, 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, the two little friends Water Rat and Mole are headed back after a long day to their home on the river, which is really the Rat’s home. Suddenly the Mole remembers his original mole den home, and the urge to visit becomes to strong to ignore.

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