Sleep Story 164 – A Traveler at Forty
Tonight’s reading comes from A Traveler at Forty. It’s a lovely story about an American gentleman’s journey around Europe, during the time where you needed to take a boat, instead of a plan. The book ...
7 Juli 202134min
Sleep Story 163 - Dubliners
Tonight’s readings comes from Dubliners. Published in 1914 and written by James Joyce, Dubliners is a series of short stories that depicts Irish middle class life at around the turn of the 20th Centur...
23 Juni 202137min
Sleep Story 162 – Adventures in Journalism
Tonight’s reading comes from Adventures in Journalism. Written by Philip Gibbs, this story looks at the life of a journalist living in the early 1900’s in England. My name is Teddy and I aim to help p...
16 Juni 202134min
Sleep Story 161 - The Youth of Washington
Tonight’s reading comes from The Youth of Washington. Told in the form of an autobiography, the book is written by S Weir Mitchell and looks at the early life of George Washington My name is Teddy and...
9 Juni 202133min
Sleep Story 160 - A Second Letter on The Late Post Office Agitation
Tonight’s reading comes from A Second Letter on The Late Post Office Agitation. It was written in 1850 by Charles Vaughan, a priest and a scholar who is concerned about changes at the post office that...
2 Juni 202134min
Sleep Story 159 - The Personal Relation in Industry
Originally published in 1917, John D Rockefeller Jnr discusses the importance of Personal Relation and cooperation in industry, during and around the turn of the 20th century. My name is Teddy and I a...
26 Maj 202136min
Sleep Story 158 - A Century's Progress in Astronomy
Tonight’s reading comes from A Century’s Progress in Astronomy. Written by Hector MacPherson and published in 1906, this book looks at the life of William Herschel, a pioneer in the field of Astronomy...
19 Maj 202135min
Sleep Story 157 - The Ethics of Cooperation
Tonight’s readings comes from the Ethics of Cooperation by James Hayden Tufts. Published in 1918, the principles in this book still ring true today. It’s amazing how far we have come and how much we c...
11 Maj 202134min
