The Sleeping Almanac: Sleep Stories for Adults from Myth and Fairy Tale

Calm, slow sleep stories drawn from the world's oldest myths. Each episode retells a great legend in a soft, steady voice with gentle music, built to carry you to sleep. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.

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Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac | Season Four, The Odyssey

The world's oldest stories, told slowly enough to fall asleep to. Three hour sleep stories for anyone who lies down at night and cannot switch the day off. Four season...

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S4 E9 Sep 18, 2026

The Odyssey · The Swineherd's Fire · 3 Hour Sleep Story

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the long way home ends on a beach at last, and nobody knows it yet. A man wakes in a mist so thick he does not recognise his o...

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S4 E8 Sep 17, 2026

The Odyssey · The Last Strange Kingdom · 3 Hour Sleep Story

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the gentlest kingdom in all the old world, and the night a long story folds quietly in two. A girl goes down to a river at daw...

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S4 E Sep 15, 2026

Anunnaki · The Tablets That Slept Three Thousand Years · 3 Hour Sleep Story

The tablets that first wrote the Anunnaki slept under a hill for two and a half thousand years, and tonight is the story of how they came back. A slow, calm 3 hour sle...

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S4 E7 Sep 13, 2026

The Odyssey · The Raft at the Edge of the World · 3 Hour Sleep Story

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the long stay on the island of Calypso ends, the gods in the high air decide the wanderer may go home at last, and he builds a...

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S4 E Sep 11, 2026

Anunnaki · The Real Story the Tablets Tell · 3 Hour Sleep Story

You have heard the word Anunnaki. Tonight we go all the way back to the clay the word was first pressed into. A slow, calm 3 hour Mesopotamian mythology sleep story to...

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S4 E6 Sep 10, 2026

The Odyssey · The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis · 3 Hour Sleep Story

Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac. Tonight the ship must pass the three great dangers of the middle sea. First the meadow of the singing women, the Sirens, whose song no...

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Welcome to The Sleeping Almanac | Season Four, The Odyssey

Latest Episodes

The Odyssey · The Swineherd's Fire · 3 Hour Sleep Story

The Odyssey · The Last Strange Kingdom · 3 Hour Sleep Story

Anunnaki · The Tablets That Slept Three Thousand Years · 3 Hour Sleep Story

The Odyssey · The Raft at the Edge of the World · 3 Hour Sleep Story

Anunnaki · The Real Story the Tablets Tell · 3 Hour Sleep Story

The Odyssey · The Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis · 3 Hour Sleep Story

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