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Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing

Nightlong is a podcast of slow stories that don"t need finishing. Each episode takes you, in a low voice and with no hurry, somewhere else: the everyday lives of people centuries ago, the universe and its distances, the myths we have always told each other, the ideas that have kept us company for a long time. No jump scares, no loud music, no endings that make you stay awake to find out. If you drift off halfway through, it worked. Long episodes, an hour or more, made for insomnia, for winding

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01:09:53

Hachikō Waited Nearly Ten Years at Shibuya, and He...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/10/04

Everyone knows the dog who waited at the station. Almost no one knows the woman who decided where he would be happy.Hachikō reached Tokyo in a straw bag and lived with Professor Ueno and with Yaeko. The calm story of the dog who went back to Shibuya station for nearly ten years, and of the woman the law left out for half a century.Tonight you do not need to follow along. You can close your eyes and let the voice keep you company.00:00 A bronze dog in the crowd04:41 A straw bag on the train11:56 The

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01:09:18

Marie Curie's Notebooks Are Still Radioactive a...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/10/04

Her notebooks are kept in lead-lined boxes and readers sign a waiver to open them. Inside is the story of two people who worked at night.Marie Curie found two new elements with her husband Pierre in a cold shed in Paris. The calm story of the two of them, of a rainy afternoon in 1906, of the diary she wrote to him afterwards, and of everything she did without him.Tonight you do not need to follow along. You can close your eyes and let the voice keep you company.00:00 A shed in the dark03:43 Warsaw

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01:11:23

Shah Jahan and the Taj Mahal, a Love Story | Sleep Story

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/10/04

He built the most beautiful tomb in the world for his wife. He spent his last years locked up by his son, with his daughter beside him.In 1631 Mumtaz Mahal died and the emperor Shah Jahan began the Taj Mahal. The calm story of the two of them, of the years of marble, and of Jahanara, the daughter who stayed with her father and asked for nothing on her grave but grass.Tonight you do not need to follow along. You can close your eyes and let the voice keep you company.00:00 Marble at dawn03:52 A prince

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01:10:22

Beethoven Premiered His Ninth Without Being Able to...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/10/04

When the music stopped, Beethoven was still facing the orchestra, beating time. He could not hear the applause. A singer turned him around.On 7 May 1824 in Vienna the Ninth Symphony was heard for the first time, and the man who wrote it could no longer hear. The calm story of his deafness, the letter he wrote and never sent, the notebooks people wrote in to talk to him, and that night.Tonight you do not need to follow along. You can close your eyes and let the voice keep you company.00:00 A notebook

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01:09:54

Van Gogh and the Brother Who Paid for Every Painting...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/10/04

Theo sent money every month for ten years. When both brothers were gone, a widow of 28 was left with hundreds of paintings nobody wanted.More than six hundred letters bind Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo. The calm story of two brothers, of an almond branch painted for a baby, and of Jo, the woman who kept the paintings and did not stop until the world had seen them.Tonight you do not need to follow along. You can close your eyes and let the voice keep you company.00:00 A branch of almond

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01:09:06

Gander: Why 38 Planes Landed in a Small Newfoundland...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/10/04

Thirty eight planes landed in a town of ten thousand. For five days, the town gave them beds, food and hot showers.On 11 September 2001 American airspace closed and 38 planes came down in Gander, Newfoundland. The calm story of five days when a small town took in about 6,600 strangers, of two mothers of firefighters, and of the animals in the holds.Tonight you do not need to follow along. You can close your eyes and let the voice keep you company.00:00 A borrowed bed04:22 A hot morning in

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01:08:41

The Berlin Wall and the Press Conference That Opened...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/25

He was asked when the new rule took effect. He looked through his papers and said immediately. That night the Wall opened.On 9 November 1989 an East German government spokesman read out a note he had not understood, live on television. This is the calm story of that press conference, of the officer who raised a barrier without orders, and of the night Berlin came back together.Tonight you do not need to follow along. You can close your eyes and let the voice keep you company.00:00 A folded sheet of

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01:08:09

Ada Blackjack, Alone on Wrangel Island | Sleep Story

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/25

She was hired to sew on an Arctic island. She had never hunted and she was afraid of bears. She was the only one who came back.In 1921 a young Iñupiaq woman from Alaska signed on as a seamstress for an Arctic island to pay for her son's care. This is the calm story of Ada Blackjack, her diary, the expedition's cat, and the summer she was found.Tonight you do not need to follow along. You can close your eyes and let the voice keep you company.00:00 A needle and a lamp04:05 Nome, summer of

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01:06:54

Stanislav Petrov, the Man Who Didn't Press the Button...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/25

One night in 1983 the screen announced five missiles. The duty officer had a phone in each hand and a few minutes to decide.In September 1983, in a bunker near Moscow, the Soviet early warning system announced a missile attack. This is the calm story of Stanislav Petrov, of what he decided that night, and of the quiet life that came after.Tonight you do not need to follow along. You can close your eyes and let the voice keep you company.00:00 A phone in each hand04:01 A nervous autumn11:51 The night

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01:09:36

How a Dalai Lama Is Chosen, the Search for a Boy in...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/25

A lama dressed as a servant walks into a Tibetan farmhouse. A two year old boy asks him for the rosary around his neck.In nineteen thirty three the Dalai Lama dies, and a search across Tibet begins, guided by signs, a sacred lake and three letters. This is the calm story of how they found a boy in a farming village, and of the caravan that carried him to Lhasa.Tonight you do not need to follow along. You can close your eyes and let the voice keep you company.00:00 A rosary, bead by bead04:08 A

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01:07:46

The Radioactive Light of Goiânia, a Scrapyard...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/24

A piece of scrap glowed blue and everyone wanted to see it. Only one woman guessed what it was, put it in a bag, and got on a bus.In September nineteen eighty seven, in the Brazilian city of Goiânia, an abandoned medical machine ended up in a scrapyard with a powder that glowed blue. This is the calm story of what happened, of the woman who raised the alarm, and of the new warning sign that came out of it.Tonight you do not need to follow along. You can close your eyes and let the voice keep you

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01:05:22

Apollo 13, the Problem After the Problem, Four Days...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/11

The explosion lasted a second and nobody saw it. What brought three men home took four days and was done with a pencil, tape and cardboard.Tonight we go to a cold cabin two hundred thousand miles from Earth, in April of nineteen seventy. In between there is a joke about a tax return, a square box that will not fit a round hole, some arithmetic done in pencil and checked from the ground, and a list that took an hour and a half to read out loud. This is not about the explosion. It is about the

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01:05:22

Apollo 13, the Problem After the Problem, Four Days...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/11

The explosion lasted a second and nobody saw it. What brought three men home took four days and was done with a pencil, tape and cardboard.Tonight we go to a cold cabin two hundred thousand miles from Earth, in April of nineteen seventy.In between there is a joke about a tax return, a square box that will not fit a round hole, some arithmetic done in pencil and checked from the ground, and a list that took an hour and a half to read out loud.This is not about the explosion. It is about the four days

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01:04:36

The Thai Cave Boys, and How They Were Carried Out...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/11

Twelve boys went into a cave for an hour and stayed eighteen days. When they finally came out, none of them saw it. They were carried out asleep. Tonight we go to a mountain in northern Thailand, in June of two thousand eighteen, and to a dark chamber more than two kilometers in from the entrance. In between there is a flashlight switched on and off to make it last, a thread of clear water running down the rock, some letters written on a diving notepad, and a decision nobody had ever made

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01:04:36

The Thai Cave Boys, and How They Were Carried Out...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/11

Twelve boys went into a cave for an hour and stayed eighteen days. When they finally came out, none of them saw it. They were carried out asleep.Tonight we go to a mountain in northern Thailand, in June of two thousand eighteen, and to a dark chamber more than two kilometers in from the entrance.In between there is a flashlight switched on and off to make it last, a thread of clear water running down the rock, some letters written on a diving notepad, and a decision nobody had ever made before.You

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01:08:10

The Kamikazes Nobody Counted, and the Man Who Spent...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/09

Japan carefully counted the pilots it spent. The ones it never spent were never counted, and one of them spent forty years doing it himself. Tonight we go to an airfield in southern Japan in the spring of nineteen forty five, and to a small room with a wall of photographs thirty years later. In between there is a form with three words on it, an engine that failed over the sea, a noon in August when a whole country stopped its trains to listen, and a man who left his job at the city hall to knock

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01:08:10

The Kamikazes Nobody Counted, and the Man Who Spent...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/09

Japan carefully counted the pilots it spent. The ones it never spent were never counted, and one of them spent forty years doing it himself.Tonight we go to an airfield in southern Japan in the spring of nineteen forty five, and to a small room with a wall of photographs thirty years later.In between there is a form with three words on it, an engine that failed over the sea, a noon in August when a whole country stopped its trains to listen, and a man who left his job at the city hall to knock on

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01:07:08

The Andes, They Were Declared Dead and Heard It on...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/08

They walked the wrong way off the mountain, and that is why they lived. The short way out was twelve miles away and they did not know. On the thirteenth of October, nineteen seventy two, an aircraft with forty five people on board crashed in the Andes. It was carrying a Uruguayan rugby team to a match in Chile, and because chartering an aircraft is expensive, the club had sold ten seats to mothers, sisters and friends. After eight days the search was called off. They had flown a hundred and forty

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01:07:08

The Andes, They Were Declared Dead and Heard It on...

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/08

They walked the wrong way off the mountain, and that is why they lived. The short way out was twelve miles away and they did not know.On the thirteenth of October, nineteen seventy two, an aircraft with forty five people on board crashed in the Andes. It was carrying a Uruguayan rugby team to a match in Chile, and because chartering an aircraft is expensive, the club had sold ten seats to mothers, sisters and friends.After eight days the search was called off. They had flown a hundred and forty two

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01:04:05

Chornobyl, the Zone Forty Years On | Sleep Story

Nightlong — Slow stories that don"t need finishing ·

2026/09/07

Over the reactor sits a steel arch built to stay dry a hundred years. Twenty miles away, somebody lights a wood stove. In the town of Chornobyl there are more than a hundred wooden signposts planted together, each carrying the name of a village that was emptied. Kupovate. Opachychi. Teremtsi. Tonight we walk among them. First the night, told whole and unhurried, because you cannot talk about what is there now without saying it. The postponed test, twenty-three minutes past one, what broke, and the

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