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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.

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7:00

The Tenant of Wildfall Hall

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/24

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 at a decaying country manor with her young son and refuses to explain

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34:16

Felicia and the Pot of Pinks

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/24

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 particular flower. Madame d’Aulnoy was a 17th-century French writer

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29:31

The Crab that Played with the Sea

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/21

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 animals obtained their distinctive features, such as how the leopard got

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30:45

Persuasion pt. 20

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/18

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 ridiculous-looking boat in a shop window. They walk together, the Admiral

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30:45

The Otter Opal pt. 2

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/16

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 himself an extraordinary one. In many Indigenous coastal

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30:44

The Otter Opal pt. 1

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/14

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, suspended between waking and dreaming, wondering where the day might

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24:30

The House at Pooh Corner pt. 8

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/11

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33:41

The Moon Maid

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/09

Tonight, we’ll read the opening to “The Moon Maid”, a fantasy novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published in 1926.This novel constitutes a future history, and in it Burroughs' vision of what the 20th century held in store for humanity, which could be considered a kind of retroactive alternate history. In Burroughs's vision, in 1967 the planetary rulers send a first manned spacecraft to the Moon—coinciding very near to the ac he Apollo 11 Moon landing. Of course, in Burrough’s version, the

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31:41

Schoolroom Cakes

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/07

Tonight, we’ll read recipes on schoolroom cakes along with tea cakes and biscuits from The Cake and Biscuit Book by Elizabeth Douglas, published in 1903. When this cookbook was published, most American students attended a one-room schoolhouse. A single teacher would typically have students of all ages in one class. The youngest children sat in the front, while the oldest students sat in the back. Students memorized and recited their lessons, and when they were lucky, they ate home baked treats like

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32:30

Anne of Green Gables pt. 30

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/04

Tonight, we’ll read the 30th chapter of “Anne of Green Gables”, the classic 1908 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This chapter is titled “The Queen's Class Is Organized.” In the last episode, Anne was overjoyed when Diana told her they had been invited by Aunt Josephine to visit Charlottetown for the Exhibition. Though unsure Marilla would allow it, she eventually agreed, especially after a little help from Diana’s mother. Anne prepared with great excitement, especially over her new coat and

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32:30

Anne of Green Gable pt. 30

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/04

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33:29

Rock Temples

Snoozecast ·

2025/07/02

Tonight, we’ll read about hermit caves and rock temples from The Subterranean World, written by G. Hartwig and published in 1871.A hermit is a person who lives in seclusion. Eremitism plays a role in a variety of religions although in modern colloquial usage, "hermit" denotes anyone living apart from the rest of society, for any reason. Hartwig’s book presents a 19th-century view of natural and human-made underground wonders, from geological formations to sacred spaces carved into rock. In this

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40:45

Frithiof the Bold

Snoozecast ·

2025/06/30

Tonight, we’ll read the tale of Frithiof the Bold, found in “Northland Heroes” written by Florence Holbrook and published in 1909. The author was an educator, author and speaker involved in the peace movement during the early years of the 20th century. She was an ardent pacifist, a suffragist, and a believer in public education as the foundation for a democratic society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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32:54

Good Wives ch. 20

Snoozecast ·

2025/06/27

Tonight we'll read the next chapter of Good Wives, written by Louisa May Alcott, titled "Surprises". This is also known as the second half of the Little Women novel, and is considered the 43rd chapter as part of that work as a whole.In our last chapter, Jo found herself adrift in a quieter home, struggling to lift her spirits or rekindle her sense of purpose. Though she tries to be useful, her days feel empty until simple comforts. Conversations with her parents. Small household tasks, and time

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7:15

Old Pipes and the Dryad

Snoozecast ·

2025/06/26

Tonight, for our monthly Snoozecast+ Deluxe episode, we’ll read the tale “Old Pipes and the Dryad” by Frank R. Stockton and published in 1894. Stockton was a popular American writer best known for his whimsical and gently satirical fairy tales. His most famous story, “The Lady, or the Tiger?”, posed a famously unsolvable riddle and brought him wide acclaim. But many of his lesser-known tales, like tonight’s, are just as imaginative and charming. Stockton often gave mythological or magical

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36:44

The Portrait of a Lady

Snoozecast ·

2025/06/25

Tonight, we’ll read the first chapter to “The Portrait of a Lady” written by Henry James and published in 1880. It is one of James's most popular novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. The novel follows Isabel Archer, a spirited and idealistic young American who travels to Europe in search of experience and independence. When she unexpectedly inherits a fortune, her circumstances shift dramatically—but so too do the stakes of her freedom. Henry James uses Isabel’s story to

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19:29

The White Doe

Snoozecast ·

2025/06/23

Tonight, we’ll read a version of the French literary fairy tale called “The White Doe” originally written by Madame d'Aulnoy. This version was found in “My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales” edited by Captain Edric Vredenburg and published in 1921.Madame d’Aulnoy, writing at the end of the 17th century, is credited with helping to popularize the term “fairy tale” itself—conte de fées—as she brought together aristocratic salon wit and magical storytelling. Her tales were never strictly for children;

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30:45

Persuasion pt. 19

Snoozecast ·

2025/06/20

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 is stunned to learn of Louisa Musgrove’s sudden engagement to Captain Benwick. The pairing seems unlikely—Louisa being lively and high-spirited, Benwick reserved and mournful—but Anne quickly

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33:48

Madeleines | Proust

Snoozecast ·

2025/06/18

Tonight, we’ll read another excerpt from French writer Marcel Proust’s monumental “In Search of Lost Time” which is seven volumes long, and first published in 1913. “In Search of Lost Time” follows the narrator's recollections and experiences in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning in the world. This series does not necessarily need to be followed in order. Rather than being plot driven, it is more of a

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33:40

M. Swann | Proust

Snoozecast ·

2025/06/16

Tonight, we’ll read “M. Swann” the next part in our series from French writer Marcel Proust’s monumental “In Search of Lost Time” which is seven volumes long, and first published in 1913. “In Search of Lost Time” follows the narrator's recollections and experiences in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century high-society France. This series does not necessarily need to be followed in order—as it drifts more like memory itself, circling themes and impressions rather than following a linear

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