Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories
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December 8, 2025 • 46 mins
Narrator: Vanessa Labrie 🇨🇦 Writer: Kayla Kurin ✍️Sound effects: kitchen ambience, grater, cooking sounds 🍳🥄
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’ll join Adina as she prepares latkes with her grandmother and learns all about the history of this savoury treat. 😴
Includes mentions of: Food, History, Religious Traditions, Family, Grandparents, Holidays, Hannukkah, Cooking.
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December 6, 2025 • 321 mins
Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧By various writers ✍️
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we have a special, rather magical selection of our very best Christmas stories, stitched into a long-length compilation episode. 😴 We hope you enjoy listening! 🎅
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Enjoy various playlists of our stories and meditations on our Slum...
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December 3, 2025 • 54 mins
Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧Writer: Frankie Regalia ✍️Sound effects: mythical flute, crickets 🪈🌾
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, in the last of our 12-part series, we will explore the passions and triumphs of Dionysus as the young god of freedom, liberation, passion and theatre. 😴
Includes mentions of: Religious Traditions, Food, Beverages, Mythology, Alcohol, Theatre, Childbirth, Pregnancy, Marriage, Death, Underworld.
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December 1, 2025 • 49 mins
Narrator: Simon Mattacks 🇬🇧Writer: Jo Steer ✍️Sound effects: London ambience, flowing river 🏙️ 🌊
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’ll meet the Chelsea Pensioners, the retired soldiers known for their scarlet uniforms. We’ll delve into their yuletide traditions, from the stirring of the Christmas pudding to the Ceremony of the Cheeses. 😴
Includes mentions of: Food, Nostalgia, Christmas, Winter, History, Gratitude, Birth...
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November 26, 2025 • 64 mins
Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧Writer: Jo Steer ✍️Sound effects: gentle birdsong, distant waves 🐦⬛🌊
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’ll travel back in time to the 1st century BCE. In Ephesus, we’ll explore the magnificent Temple of Artemis, also known as the Temple of Diana. 😴
Includes mentions of: Religious Traditions, Mythology, Travel, History, Ancient History, Architecture.
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November 25, 2025 • 46 mins
Narrator: Simon Mattacks 🇬🇧Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️Sound effects: trains, city station ambience 🚆 🏙️
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, in the second part of our two-part adventure, we'll travel back to the 1930s to ride one of the most luxurious trains of the 20th century. 😴
Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Trains, Travel, History, Fantastical Elements.
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November 24, 2025 • 55 mins
Narrator: Simon Mattacks 🇬🇧Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️Sound effects: busy city ambience 🏙️
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’ll immerse ourselves in the first part of a two-part adventure as we experience a dreamy tour of Grand Central Terminal. Many have long considered it to be the most gracious portal to New York City. 😴
Includes mentions of: Fantastical Elements, Trains, Travel, History, Architecture, Friendship, Bev...
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November 22, 2025 • 201 mins
Narrator: Simon Mattacks 🇬🇧Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we have a special bonus episode, where we'll enjoy all five episodes (so far) from our popular series about Auggie, a fluffy, mischievous cat who lives alongside her family of humans. 😴
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November 19, 2025 • 44 mins
Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧Writer: Lottie Finklaire ✍️Sound effects: seaside ambience, gulls, distant train, voices 🌊🚆🗣️
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’re off to the seaside in south-east England, where our story takes place on a rainy day, which is just part of the cosy charm. 😴
Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Travel, Rain.
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November 17, 2025 • 48 mins
Narrator: Heather Foster 🇺🇸 Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️ Sound effects: crackling fire 🔥
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll travel back in time to the late 19th century to experience a cosy pie auction along with Liza, who is very much looking forward to all that the evening will bring. 😴
Includes mentions of: Food, Nostalgia, Children, Baking, Autumn, Walking, Romance, History, Gratitude, US History, Family, Friendship...
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November 12, 2025 • 48 mins
Narrator: Arif Hodzic 🇺🇸 Writer: Angela Wood ✍️Sound effects: city hum, light chatter 🌃🗣️
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’re travelling to New York City and spending an evening on the beautiful rooftop terrace of a skyscraper, overlooking the lively, light-filled city. 😴
Includes mentions of: Heights, Drones, Fireworks, Beverages, Travel, History.
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November 10, 2025 • 69 mins
Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧Writer: The French Whisperer ✍️Sound effects: spaceship pass-by, crickets 🚀🌌
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’ll be travelling to space. By the power of imagination, we're going to accelerate to several thousand times the speed of light until we reach the distant Andromeda Galaxy. 😴
Includes mentions of: Heights, Flying, Outer Space, Enclosed Spaces, Science & Nature.
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November 5, 2025 • 55 mins
Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧Writer: Frankie Regalia ✍️Sound effects: mythical flute, crickets 🪈🌙
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll follow the story of the god of archery, medicine, music, prophecy and the sun - Apollo. 😴
Includes mentions of: Religious Traditions, Fantastical Creatures, Mythology, Ancient History, Art, Music, Prophecy, Family, Parents, Children, Pregnancy.
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November 3, 2025 • 49 mins
Narrator: Simon Mattacks 🇬🇧Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️Sound effects: autumnal breezes, cars driving by 🍂 🚙
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we rejoin Auggie, Meatball and their humans on a cosy autumn day, following Auggie as she monitors the family leaf cleanup in the garden. 😴
Includes mentions of: Food, Cats, Heights, Nostalgia, Children, Autumn, Animals, Family, Parents, Friendship.
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October 31, 2025 • 59 mins
Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️Sound effects: nighttime crickets, distant river 🌌 🌊
Happy Halloween, sleepyheads! 🎃 Tonight, we’ll explore the mythology, origins and science of fairy lights. We’ll hear tales of the fairies and their mischief, of lost souls making up for bad deeds, and of deities who foretold the fate of mariners. 😴
Includes mentions of: Folklore, Fairytale, Fantastical Creatures, Scienc...
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October 29, 2025 • 54 mins
Narrator: TK Kellman 🇺🇸 Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️Sound effects: calm traffic 🚗
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll enjoy the nostalgic sights and sounds of a classic movie theater, taking in a film before heading home for a good night's rest. 😴
Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Nostlgia.
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October 27, 2025 • 57 mins
Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧Writer: Jo Steer ✍️Sound effects: lapping waves 🌊
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, in the penultimate episode of this series, we’re heading to Ancient Egypt, to the illustrious city of Alexandria.We’ll take a peaceful boat ride around the city’s great harbour and see the famed Lighthouse of Alexandria. 😴
Includes mentions of: Bodies of Water, Boat, Ancient History, History, Architecture, Archaeol...
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October 24, 2025 • 42 mins
Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️Sound effects: crickets 🌾
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we visit the Joanine Library at the University of Coimbra. Once we’re within its ancient walls, you’ll meet one of its many tiny resident bats, who live side by side with precious tomes and keep them safe from gobbling insects. 😴
Includes mentions of: Animals, Heights, Flying, Bats, History, Art History, Archite...
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October 22, 2025 • 41 mins
Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧Writer: Lottie Finklaire ✍️Sound effects: morning countryside ambience 🐦⬛🌳🌅
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’ll follow a tiny field mouse as she goes about her day. Now that it’s autumn, she needs to prepare for the coming season. 😴
Includes mentions of: Animals, Autumn, Food.
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October 20, 2025 • 40 mins
Narrator: Simon Mattacks 🇬🇧Writer: Frankie Regalia ✍️Sound effects: lakeside ambience 🌲🌊🌙
Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, in this Italian folktale, a parrot weaves a story for a merchant’s daughter as they wait at home for her father’s return. 😴
Includes mentions of: Romance, Fantastical Creatures, Marriage, Folklore, Animals, Birds.
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