Snoozecast
Snoozecast is the podcast designed to help you fall asleep. Episodes air every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Learn about our premium listening options at snoozecast.com/plus, which unlocks ad-free listening to our expanded catalog, including bonus original stories.
Episodes
August 25, 2025 • 32 mins
Tonight, we’ll read the first half to “The Story of the Herons,” from a collection titled Moonshine and Clover written by Laurence Housman and published in 1922. The second half will air in our next episode.
In addition to his fiction and poetry, Housman was a committed activist, championing both women’s suffrage and the acceptance of gay people in society. His work often blended lyrical language with a touch of moral allegory, ...
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August 22, 2025 • 24 mins
Tonight, we’ll read the next chapter of “Good Wives” written by Louisa May Alcott titled “My Lord and Lady”. This is also known as the second half of the “Little Women” novel and is considered the 45th chapter as part of that work as a whole.
In our last chapter, Laurie visits the March home with Amy, and the newlyweds share lighthearted banter with Jo and Mrs. March. Laurie reveals his plans to work seriously in business to ...
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August 20, 2025 • 33 mins
Tonight, we’ll read “Pop Corn Recipes” by Mary Hamilton Talbott, published in 1916.
Corn was domesticated about 10,000 years ago, in what is now Mexico. Archaeologists discovered that people have known about popcorn for thousands of years. Fossil evidence from Peru suggests that corn was popped as early as 4,700 BC.
Through the 19th century, popping of the kernels was achieved by hand, on stove tops.
During the Great Dep...
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August 18, 2025 • 35 mins
Tonight, we’ll read the opening fairy tale from The Descent of the Sun: A Cycle of Birth published in 1903. This book was purportedly translated from unidentified Sanskrit manuscripts by F. W. Bain. More likely, the stories were only inspired by ancient Hindu myths.
Bain, a British academic and translator, presented his works as delicate artifacts from the East, complete with ornate introductions describing his supposed discover...
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August 15, 2025 • 30 mins
Tonight, we shall read the next part to “Persuasion”, the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen, and published in 1817. The story concerns Anne Elliot, an Englishwoman whose family moves in order to lower their expenses, by renting their home to an Admiral and his wife.
In the last episode, Anne navigates Bath’s tightly woven social circuits—frequenting parties and strolling the streets—she continues to hope for a meaningfu...
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August 13, 2025 • 32 mins
Tonight, we’ll read from Elements of Arithmetic, written by Augustus De Morgan and first published in 1846.
De Morgan was a pioneering British mathematician and logician, remembered not only for his clear explanations but also for his sharp wit. He introduced the world to what we now call De Morgan’s Laws in logic, and was the first to formally define and use the term “mathematical induction.” Because he was a Unitarian and refu...
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August 11, 2025 • 35 mins
Tonight, we’ll read about selecting wood from “Violin Making” written by Walter H. Mayson and published in 1909.
The modern violin first appeared in 16th-century Italy, evolving from earlier bowed string instruments like the medieval rebec and Renaissance viol. Over time, it became both a tool of virtuosity and an object of cultural symbolism, equally at home in a grand concert hall or a lively village square. While the word “fi...
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August 8, 2025 • 24 mins
Tonight, we’ll continue the 1928 children's book by A. A. Milne “The House at Pooh Corner” with the second-to-last chapter, titled “In Which Eeyore Finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It.”
In the last episode, Pooh and Piglet set out on a blustery autumn day to visit friends, deciding they would wish everyone a “Very Happy Thursday.” After stopping at several homes, they fought through the strong wind to Owl’s house. While they ...
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August 6, 2025 • 33 mins
Tonight, we’ll read the opening to the short story “At the Bay” written by Katherine Mansfield, published in 1922.
Mansfield was a New Zealand writer, widely considered one of the most influential and important authors of the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world, and have been published in 25 languages.
Her prose is often described as impressionistic, capturing fleeting moments and shifts in mood with...
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August 4, 2025 • 35 mins
Tonight, we’ll read poems by John Keats starting with one titled “Sleep and Poetry.”
John Keats’ work is a cornerstone of English Romantic poetry, rich with symbolism, sensual detail, and allusions to Greek and Roman myth as well as romanticised tales of chivalry. His verse overflows with vivid imagery—nightingales, Grecian urns, moonlit fields—while also contemplating beauty, truth, and life’s transience.
Born in London in 1...
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August 1, 2025 • 20 mins
Tonight, we’ll read the 31st chapter of “Anne of Green Gables”, the classic 1908 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This chapter is titled “Where the Brook and River Meet”
In the last episode, The Queen’s Class Is Organized, Anne’s dream of becoming a teacher begins to take shape when Miss Stacy invites her to join a special class preparing for entrance exams to Queen’s Academy. Marilla, though secretly very fond of Anne, initially ...
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July 30, 2025 • 17 mins
Tonight, we’ll read from Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries, written by Édouard Schuré and published in English in 1909.
This work is part of Schuré’s larger cycle The Great Initiates, which presents the lives and teachings of spiritual figures like Krishna, Hermes, Orpheus, Plato, and Jesus through a blend of historical research and philosophical interpretation. In this volume, Schuré attempts to reconstruct the hidden life o...
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July 28, 2025 • 32 mins
Tonight, we’ll read about the musical genius Franz Liszt as a child piano prodigy from the book “Life of Liszt” written by Ludwig Nohl.
Liszt was a Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher of the Romantic era. He gained renown during the early nineteenth century for his virtuoso skill as a pianist.
Since he often appeared three or four times a week in concert, it could be safe to assume that he appeared in public well over a t...
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July 25, 2025 • 18 mins
Tonight, we’ll read the next chapter of “Good Wives” written by Louisa May Alcott titled “My Lord and Lady”. This is also known as the second half of the “Little Women” novel and is considered the 44th chapter as part of that work as a whole.
In our last chapter, Jo, feeling somewhat alone amid her family’s celebration of Amy’s return, is surprised by the unexpected arrival of Professor Bhaer. She welcomes him with visible joy, ...
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July 24, 2025 • 7 mins
Tonight, for our monthly Snoozecast+ Deluxe bonus episode, we’ll read the opening to “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” written by Anne Bronte and published in 1848.
Anne was the youngest of the three literary Brontë sisters, and her work was long overshadowed by her siblings’ more dramatic novels. Yet The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a bold, controversial success in its day. The novel tells the story of a mysterious woman who arrives a...
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July 23, 2025 • 34 mins
Tonight, we’ll read the fairy tale “Felicia and the Pot of Pinks” written by Madame d’Aulnoy and found in the Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang.
The “pot of pinks” in this story refers to a type of dianthus flower known as “garden pinks.” Its name is not due to the color pink but rather to the serrated edges of the petals, which look like they were cut with pinking shears. In fact, the color pink may be derived from this par...
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July 21, 2025 • 29 mins
Tonight, we’ll read a story from “Just So Stories” by British author Rudyard Kipling published in 1902 titled “The Crab That Played with the Sea”.
The book is a collection of origin stories. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories illustrate how anima...
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July 18, 2025 • 30 mins
Tonight, we shall read the next part to “Persuasion”, the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen, and published in 1817. The story concerns Anne Elliot, an Englishwoman whose family moves in order to lower their expenses, by renting their home to an Admiral and his wife. In the last episode, Anne unexpectedly encounters Admiral Croft while walking alone in Bath. She finds him cheerfully absorbed in critiquing a print of a ridicu...
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July 16, 2025 • 30 mins
Tonight, we’ll read the second half to “The Otter Opal”, a Snoozecast original. The first half aired in the last episode, where we met two sea otters as they floated above the kelp forest. Their days are spent sleeping, eating, napping, playing and racing. Tumma excels at all activities, except for the swim races.
We also learn that sea otters often have a favorite stone that they keep in a pocket of their fur, and Tumma finds ...
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July 14, 2025 • 30 mins
Tonight, we’ll read the first half to “The Otter Opal”, a Snoozecast original. The second half will air in the next episode.
In this story, we shall meet two sea otters named Tumma and Nutsnm as they float above the kelp forest. The story is set along a coastline that feels quietly enchanted, where breaching whales appear like punctuation and the sea’s rhythm gently matches the internal tide of thought. We begin, as Tumma does, ...
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