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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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00:31:12

Pride and Prejudice pt. 26

Snoozecast ·

2022/09/23

Tonight, we shall read the next part to “Pride and Prejudice”, written by Jane Austen.Our Friday rotation is capped at four series now, so that each episode will only be one month out from the next of a particular story. If you’d like to listen to this series or any of our others in order, please go to snoozecast.com/series.In the last episode, Elizabeth bids her friends at the parsonage at Rosings goodbye, and on her way home from her vacation, picks up her sister Jane who was staying in

00:31:22

The Greek Interpreter pt. 1 | Sherlock Holmes

Snoozecast ·

2022/09/21

Tonight, we’ll read the first half to "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”.Out of all 56 Sherlock stories, Doyle ranked "The Greek Interpreter" seventeenth in a list of his nineteen favorites.— read by N —Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy

00:31:53

The Story of the Herons pt. 1

Snoozecast ·

2022/09/19

Tonight, we’ll read “The Story of the Herons,” from a collection titled “Moonshine and Clover” written by Laurence Housman and published in 1922.Housman was an openly gay man during the Victorian era when homosexuality was severely stigmatized. He was an activist for both the women's right to vote and for the acceptance of gay people in society.If you enjoy this episode, be sure to listen to “The First Voyage | Sinbad the Sailor” which aired on July 18, 2022.Herons are long-legged,

00:33:59

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea pt. 6

Snoozecast ·

2022/09/16

Tonight, we’ll read the next part to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne.In the last episode, Professor Arronax panics about the oxygen levels in the cell, which must be diminishing. To his relief, he realizes that there is a novel system of ventilation on the vessel. Painfully hungry, the men await their next meal impatiently. They shout, but nobody answers. When, after two hours, the door finally opens, Ned

00:33:03

Numeration

Snoozecast ·

2022/09/14

Tonight, we’ll read from “Elements of Arithmetic” written by Augustus De Morgan and published in 1846.De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. He was also known as a brilliant and witty writer. Personally, he was an atheist at a time when his expression of belief limited his academic career early. The prejudice didn’t last forever and because of his mathematical legacy, there is a crater on the moon named after him.The history of arithmetic includes the period from the emergence

00:32:55

M. Swann | Proust

Snoozecast ·

2022/09/12

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, 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 as rather than being plot

00:32:00

The Secret Garden pt. 22

Snoozecast ·

2022/09/09

Tonight, we’ll read the next part to “The Secret Garden”, a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett published in 1911.If you’d like to listen to this story’s episodes in order, go to snoozecast.com/series.In the last episode, the children spend an absolutely glorious spring day together in the secret garden. Mary and Dickon learn that Colin always uses a wheelchair simply because he feels so tired and weak, but not because he cannot walk.— read by V —Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded,

00:29:07

Terra Nova [rebroadcast]

Snoozecast ·

2022/09/07

Tonight, we’ll rebroadcast Terra Nova, a Snoozecast original, which originally aired on May 15, 2020. In this short story, a young man meets a trio of travellers who provide a new perspective on the isolated village he wants to leave. Set in Canada’s Gros Morne National Park, a World Heritage Site, this tale draws inspiration from The Tablelands.The striking, desert-esque landscape is notable for illustrating the theory of plate tectonics. — read by V —Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get

00:31:42

Sleeping Beauty [rebroadcast]

Snoozecast ·

2022/09/05

Tonight, we’ll rebroadcast the story of "Sleeping Beauty", which originally aired in 2019. It is a classic fairy tale about a princess who is cursed to sleep for a hundred years by an evil fairy, where she would be awakened by a handsome prince.The earliest known version of the story is found in the narrative “Perceforest”, composed in the 14th century. "Perceforest" provides an original Genesis of the Arthurian World.— read by M —Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by

00:31:49

Rocky Mountain Lady [rebroadcast]

Snoozecast ·

2022/09/02

Tonight, we shall rebroadcast "A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains", a travel book, by Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. This episode originally aired in 2020.The book is a compilation of letters, that Isabella Bird wrote to her sister, Henrietta. Women were scarce enough in the Western United States of the late nineteenth century, and a middle-aged English lady traveling alone, by horseback, was quite a phenomenon. Bird was a nineteenth-century

00:30:45

Breadtime [rebroadcast]

Snoozecast ·

2022/08/31

Tonight, we’ll rebroadcast an episode about the basics of bread making, which originally aired in 2020. The text is from 1925’s Woman’s Institute Library of Cookery, written by The Woman’s Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences. This institute was founded by Mary Brooks Picken in Scranton, PA. An expert on fashion, Picken also wrote the first dictionary to be published by a woman in the English language. — read by V — Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going

00:48:09

Maggie's Start Date [rebroadcast]

Snoozecast ·

2022/08/29

Tonight, we’ll rebroadcast a Snoozecast original titled “Maggie’s Start Date” which originally aired in 2020. Maggie is the Green family’s loyal dog, however she may have ambitions beyond being household pet..— read by V —Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at

00:32:00

Pride and Prejudice pt. 25

Snoozecast ·

2022/08/26

Tonight, we shall read the next part of “Pride and Prejudice”, written by Jane Austen. Our Friday rotation is capped at four series now, so that each episode will only be one month out from the next of a particular story. If you’d like to listen to this series or any of our others in order, please go to snoozecast.com/series. In the last episode, Elizabeth has finished reading Darcy’s letter, and is considering it over and over again in her mind. As she considers, she starts to have a very

00:35:00

Sunset | Tales of the Setting Sun

Snoozecast ·

2022/08/24

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.While the stories may have been a literary hoax, they are still charming fantasy tales in their own right. They help us to consider the nature of existence -- the concepts of creation, reincarnation, the power of attraction and

00:30:00

The Only Crab in the Sea

Snoozecast ·

2022/08/22

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

00:33:13

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea pt. 5

Snoozecast ·

2022/08/19

Tonight, we’ll read the next part to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne.In the last episode, professor Aronnax, his devoted servant Conseil and the harpooner Ned Land are cast overboard and lost at sea after their confrontation with the giant mechanical narwhal.They find themselves on a floating metal island that turns out to be the beast they imagined they were hunting. Eventually, the vessel begins to sink and,

00:34:58

Violin Making

Snoozecast ·

2022/08/17

Tonight, we’ll read about selecting wood from “Violin Making” written by Walter H. Mayson and published in 1909.The modern violin was first known in 16th-century Italy. The name fiddle is often used regardless of the type of music played on it, and the genres are not limited to western classical music, folk, country and jazz music along with plenty of non-Western music as well.Violinists and collectors particularly prize the fine historical instruments made by certain well known families

00:32:53

At The Bay

Snoozecast ·

2022/08/16

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. This story, based on her childhood growing up in the suburbs of New Zealand, represents Mansfield’s best mature work, a luminous example of her literary impressionism. —

00:31:58

The Secret Garden pt. 21

Snoozecast ·

2022/08/12

Tonight, we’ll read the next part to “The Secret Garden”, a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett published in 1911.If you’d like to listen to this story’s episodes in order, go to snoozecast.com/series.In the last episode, Dickon comes to Misselthwaite Manor to meet Colin with Mary. The three children start devising their plan to covertly bring Colin into the secret garden. Mr. Roach, the head gardener, is ordered by Colin to be sure that all servants and groundskeepers are away at the times he

00:42:20

The Cheap Flat | Poirot

Snoozecast ·

2022/08/10

Tonight, we’ll read “The Cheap Flat”, a short story written by Agatha Christie and published in 1924 as part of her “Poirot Investigates” series.In this story, Captain Hastings meets a couple at a party who have just rented a flat in a fashionable district for an implausibly cheap price. Poirot becomes intrigued and sets out to investigate.If you enjoy this episode, be sure to listen to our first Poirot story, “The Western Star” which aired on June 8, 2022. We have also read from two of her

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