Get Sleepy Bedtime Stories
Narrated by Thomas Jones
Get Sleepy Bedtime Stories is the podcast's own best-of: fifteen listener favorites from the Get Sleepy back catalog, made for falling asleep to.
The fifteen were picked because people kept coming back to them, and together they are a fair sample of what the show does. There is a rainy day in a small-town bakery and an evening by a campfire. An astronomer watches the sky, and another story flies over Mars. Two are dreams, one of Sherwood Forest and one called The Dream of Akinosuke. Blue Hour in Rome and The Beauty of Monterey Bay are travel pieces. The Princess and the Pea is the old fairy tale retold. The rest visit a zen garden, a rooftop spa, the Great Library of Alexandria, and a peacock house, or go, as one title has it, From the Sea to the Stars, before At the End of the Day closes the set.
Eight writers had a hand in them, and every story runs short and self-contained, so there is no thread to pick up the next night. Travel pieces sit next to fantasies and a fairy tale or two, but all of them were built for the same purpose: adults who want to be read to, with enough scene to hold the mind and never enough plot to keep it awake.
Thomas Jones reads them as he reads the show, slowly and with long pauses. Start with whichever title matches the night you are having. There are fourteen more behind it.
