Bore You To Sleep - Sleep Stories for Adults

Published in 1897, the book looks at the history and conflict that occurred for nearly 300 years around the ownership of territory known as the North East Boundary. The area was primarily contested be...

18 Okt 202036min

Tonight’s reading comes from “Henry James at Work”, a biographical piece written by Theodora Bosanquet. Regarded as one of the great novelists in the English language, the book explores the fascinatin...

11 Okt 202037min

Tonight’s reading is a throwback to a previously recorded episode, The Rural Life of England. I decided to play an older episode, especially for those new to the show. If you find that some of the mor...

4 Okt 202035min

Tonight’s reading comes from, The New Democracy, by Walter Vrooman. Published in 1897, the book focuses on the events leading up to the U.S Presidential election in the year 1900. While I don’t have a...

27 Sep 202037min

Tonight’s reading comes from, Letters to a Young Housekeeper, by Jane Prince. Published in 1917. This book looks at the different aspects of tending to a house, written in the form of letters. My name...

20 Sep 202036min

Tonight’s reading comes from, A Japanese Nightingale. Written by Onoto Watanna and published in 1904, a young American finds himself at a tea-house in Kyoto. Everyone knows that the tea-house provide...

13 Sep 202037min

Tonight’s reading comes from , True Love – A story of English Domestic Life. Written by Sarah E Farro and published in 1891, the story looks at life in an English household that is not immune to the f...

6 Sep 202036min

Tonight’s readings come from the Art of Building a Home. The book was published in 1901 and written by Reginald Unwin. It is a collection of lectures and illustrations of different styles of homes at ...

30 Aug 202035min