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Bedtime Stories

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Bedtime Stories

By: Audible Sleep
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About this listen

Bedtime stories are narrated by the world's most celebrated voices and written with no beginning, middle, or end so you don't stay up to hear what happens next. They're interesting enough to give your mind something to focus on, but delivered in a way that encourages sleep.

This is an Audible Original Podcast. Free for members. When you add Bedtime Stories from Audible Sleep to your library, you'll receive all previous episodes and will continue to receive new ones as they're released.

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Episodes
  • Pumpkin Stew

    Pumpkin Stew
    May 22 2020
    Experience the smells, sounds, textures, signs, and tastes of the kitchen as a daughter lovingly prepares squash stew for her family on a brisk fall day.
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    37 mins
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  • Micromegas

    Micromegas
    May 22 2020
    If we were as tiny as ants to another being, what would they make of our philosophies? The great satirist Voltaire imagines alien visitors who have opinions.
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    59 mins
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  • Quilt Collecting

    Quilt Collecting
    May 22 2020
    Lose yourself in the descriptions of pattern, texture, and color of fabric while hunting for antique quilts at yard sales, junk shops, and country stores.
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    1 hr
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The Audible blurb describes these as stories with no beginning, middle or end. I couldn’t understand this concept so downloaded them out of curiosity. In fact they are not stories so much as short lectures or chats, on topics ranging from the mundane (quilt-collecting, cooking and baseball) to the esoteric (philosophy and mathematics).

The blurb also says that these ‘stories’ are ‘narrated by the world’s most celebrated voices’, so I was expecting to hear from familiar actors, presenters or voice artists. This can be really helpful as a familiar voice is more soothing when you’re trying to get to sleep. However, so far the only reader familiar to me has been Tony Shalhoub. He does have a great voice and I was asleep before he got halfway through his talk on the history of maths!

So although these stories are not what I was expecting, I think most listeners will find something here to interest them and to help them sleep. And they’re free, so what have you got to lose?

Not what I was expecting

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it would be good to remove this from my list but can't find a way just another annoying part of audible!

annoying just the app

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Pumpkin soup is one of my favorites, it's so very relaxing.
A must for a relaxing, calming, entrance to sleep. 5*

Pumpkin soup

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lots of lovely story's to listen to but my favourite is pumpkin stew. I would give it 100 stars if I could, it is AWESOME



so GOOD!

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as an avid cook i found myself thrust into wakefulness as my brain latched on to the processes going on in her kitchen. epic fail for me am more awake now than before!

too stimulating for me

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