Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Frankie Regalia ✍️ Sound design: wind in leaves, birds, lapping water, whistling 🍂🐦💧😙   Includes mentions of: Food, Children, Cooking, Autumn, Summer, Gratitude, Fantastical Creatures, Animals, Fairytale, Friendship, Working, Helping, Wolves.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’ll hear the tale of a friendly wolf taking a stroll through the woods to meet h...

Narrator: Heather Foster 🇺🇸 Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️ Sound design: crickets 🌾 Includes mentions of: Nostalgia, Birthdays, Religious Traditions, Americana, Military History, Art History, US History, Fashion, Work, Parents, Family, Creativity, Slavery & Abolition, Colonialism, WWII, WWI, AIDS, Civil Rights.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we have a special bonus to celebrate the launch of a...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Frankie Regalia ✍️ Sound design: cosmic drone, crickets 🌌 Includes mentions of: Animals, Science & Nature, Mythology, Fantastical Creatures, Fantastical Elements.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll join the ultimate voyager, Sagittarius, as he explores the animal kingdom in the place where it flourishes the most vibrantly - the Serengeti. 😴 Watch, listen...

Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, on our brand new podcast, Sleepy History, listen to the captivating story of a forever-mysterious British landmark - Stonehenge. Discover the fascinating history of this enigmatic monument, and the many colourful theories. Was Stonehenge an astronomical observatory, a healing sanctuary, or something else altogether? Follow the links below to listen, or just sear...

Narrator: TK Kellman 🇺🇸 Writer: Frankie Regalia ✍️ Sound design: forest birdsong 🌲🐦  Includes mentions of: Food, Bodies of Water, Children, Cooking, Walking, Fire, Fantastical Creatures, Animals, Ice & Snow, US History, Darkness, Science & Nature, Forest at Night, Americana, Folklore, Fantasy, Friendship, Cows, Parents, Helping, Family.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. In tonight's bonus, finishing o...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️ Sound design: calm city ambience, footsteps, soft voices 🏙️👟🗣️   Includes mentions of: Nostalgia, Children, Car, Enclosed Spaces, Gratitude, Beverages, Darkness, Theatre, Performing on Stage.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’ll immerse ourselves in a musical theatre production at a grand venue in the city, recalling memories of past perf...

Narrator: Nadine Brown 🇬🇧 Writer: Jo Steer ✍️ Sound design: seaside town ambience, distant waves ⚓️ 🌊  Includes mentions of: Food, Nostalgia, Autumn, History, Alcohol, Beverages, Dancing, Friendship, Travel, Literature & Literary History, Music.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. In tonight's bonus episode, we'll join Lena as she dances away the evening on the Irish Sea coast, at a historic dance hall,...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Jo Steer ✍️ Sound design: mountains ambience, birds 🏔️🐦  Includes mentions of: Food, Bodies of Water, Spring, Walking, History, Architecture, Travel, Wine, Beverages.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Thank you for being here with us, once again, as we celebrate a landmark occasion for the show. 🥳 It's been exactly 5 years since we released our first-ever episode! Whe...

Narrator: Jessika Downes-Gössl 🇬🇧 Writer: Mersiha Bruncevic ✍️ Sound design: marina ambience, birdsong ⚓️🐦 Includes mentions of: Food, Bodies of Water, Autumn, History, Gratitude, Beverages, Architecture, Literature & Literary History, Travel.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll join a lady named Nora in Copenhagen, visiting cosy bookshops, reading about opulent castles and discovering th...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Alexandra Turney ✍️ Sound design: waves on shore 🌊  Includes mentions of: Bodies of Water, Boat, Fantastical Creatures, Fantastical Elements, Literature & Literary History, Mythology, Helping.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll follow Hercules as he seeks to find the legendary Garden of the Hesperides, where golden apples grow. But it belongs to his nemes...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Ivan Suazo ✍️ Sound design: birdsong 🐦  Includes mentions of: Dogs, Autumn, Walking, Science & Nature, Travel, Hiking, Working, Parents, Family.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll join two truffle hunters and their amazing dog as they wander through the oak forests of Piedmont in search of the White Alba truffle. 😴 Watch, listen and comment on this episo...

Narrator: Chloe De Burgh 🇬🇧 Writer: Sara Williams ✍️ Sound design: canal ambience, birdsong 🚣🐦‍⬛ Includes mentions of: Food, Bodies of Water, Boat, Beverages, Rain, Friendship, Animals, Autumn.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. In tonight's story, we’ll spend a peaceful autumn morning on the river, journeying in a traditional narrowboat. 😴 Watch, listen and comment on this episode on the Get Sleepy...

Narrator: Chloe De Burgh 🇬🇧 Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️ Sound design: autumnal breeze, footsteps on leaves, snapping twigs 🍂🥾🪵  Includes mentions of: Food, Nostalgia, Autumn, Baking, Colonialism, Slavery and Abolition, Beverages, US History, Farming, Americana, Literature & Literary History, Coffee.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll trace the unlikely trajectory of pumpkin spice by taki...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Shady Grove Oliver ✍️ Sound design: thunderstorm, horse hooves ⛈️🐴 Includes mentions of: Eerie Scenes, Death, Autumn, Rain, Insects, Beverages, Horses, Darkness, Travel, Science Fiction, Thunderstorm, Scientific Experiments.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, it's time for our special Halloween story of 2024. During a journey through the Swiss Alps, we’ll arriv...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Frankie Regalia ✍️ Sound design: cosmic drone, crickets 🌌🌾 Includes mentions of: Cats, Autumn, Fantastical Creatures, Fantasy, Worries, Mythology, Intuition, Inspiration, Growth, Change, Uncertainty, Tarot.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, Scorpio provides insights to welcome guests as a tarot card reader. She has the ability to see the patterns and read the...

Narrator: Arif Hodzic 🇺🇸 Writer: Kathleen Fowlds ✍️ Sound design: vibrant morning birdsong 🐦🦜 Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Travel, Children, Shopping, Friendship, Religious Traditions.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight’s story is set in a vibrant market in Harare, Zimbabwe. Local resident, Matthew, often goes to the market, and we’ll join him tonight to see all the amazing goods on o...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Alexandra Turney ✍️ Sound design: waves on sand 🌊 Includes mentions of: Dogs, Food, Bodies of Water, Nostalgia, Fantastical Creatures, Animals, Literature & Literary History, Mythology, Battle Scenes, Change.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, Hercules has travelled to the faraway island of Erytheia, in what would be modern-day Spain. Here, his mission is to fi...

Narrator: Heather Foster 🇺🇸 Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️ Sound design: autumn birdsong, clopping horse hooves 🐦🐴 Includes mentions of: Food, Children, Eerie Scenes, Autumn, Romance, History, Halloween, Friendship, Literature & Literary History, Ghost Stories.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’ll accompany a Victorian-era teen as she attends her very first Halloween party. There won’t be any...

Narrator: Arif Hodzic 🇺🇸 Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️ Sound design: Autumn countryside ambience, owl hooting 🍂🦉 Includes mentions of: Magic, Nostalgia, Children, Ghosts, Eerie Scenes, Death, Autumn, Fire, Witches, Fantastical Creatures, Halloween, Religious Traditions, US History, Darkness, Farming, Americana, Folklore, Literature & Literary History, Devil.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we’...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Jo Steer ✍️ Sound design: winter winds 🌬️❄️ Includes mentions of: Food, Nostalgia, Winter, Walking, Fire, Animals, Ice & Snow, Darkness, Science & Nature, Travel, Hiking, Family, Pets, Dogs.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, a woman is visiting her brother in the town of Longyearbyen. It's one of the coldest and darkest parts of the world during the winter. But...

Narrator: Jessika Downes-Gössl 🇬🇧 Writer: Alicia LeVesque ✍️ Sound design: crickets 🌾 Includes mentions of: Magic, Nostalgia, Children, Autumn, Gratitude, Fantastical Creatures, Music, Fantasy, Work, Mystery, Beverages.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll be travelling to a magical autumn night market. This is no ordinary market, but as always, it's perfectly safe and filled with gentle su...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Alicia Steffann ✍️ Sound design: car driving on road 🚗 Includes mentions of: Food, Bodies of Water, Nostalgia, Car, Autumn, Fire, Gratitude, Darkness, Friendship, Beverages.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we'll rejoin six childhood friends from a past autumn episode (A Peaceful Autumn Dinner Picnic). On this occasion, they have all been invited to a farmhou...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Jo Steer ✍️ Sound design: mountain forest ambience ⛰️ Includes mentions of: Food, Mirrors, Autumn, Fire, Enclosed Spaces, Walking, History, Religious Traditions, Art History, Architecture, Horses, Travel.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, Anke will make her last stop on a tour of Bavaria, at Herrenchiemsee Castle. It’s King Ludwig II's personal version of the P...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Frankie Regalia ✍️ Sound design: ocean waves, city street ambience 🌊🏙️ Includes mentions of: Autumn, Fantastical Creatures, Architecture, Travel, Folklore, Fantasy, Literature & Literary History, Mythology, Inspiration, Creativity.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. Tonight, we continue our unique zodiac series. On this occasion, we’ll follow Libra, who spends his day o...

Narrator: Thomas Jones 🇬🇧 Writer: Jo Steer ✍️ Sound design: mountain forest ambience ⛰️ Includes mentions of: Bodies of Water, Nostalgia, Mirrors, Autumn, Enclosed Spaces, Walking, Boat, History, Art History, Architecture, Caves, Darkness, Travel, Folklore, Fairytale, Mythology, Music, Religious Traditions.  Welcome back, sleepyheads. In the third of four stories from this series, Anke takes a tou...