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History to Sleep Through
by History to Sleep Through
Long, quiet history, read slowly enough to fall asleep to. Real events, told at an easy pace, with the small details left in: the weather, the dates, the names of the people who were there. Put it on and close your eyes. Narrated by an AI voice. You'll hear the ending eventually. Probably not tonight.
Episodes
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The Crippen Case
On the last evening of January 1910, four people played cards in a rented house in north London. One of them, the music hall singer Cora Crippen, was never seen again. The American doctor Hawley Crippen, his typist Ethel Le Neve travelling as his son, the Scotland Yard inspector who crossed the...
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Shackleton's Endurance, Part 3: The Return
Twenty-two men waited on Elephant Island for four and a half months, living under two upturned boats, while Shackleton tried four times to reach them. Life on the island, the ships he borrowed and begged for, and how the expedition ended, including the second party on the far side of Antarctica....
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Shackleton's Endurance, Part 2: The Whistle
After the ship went down, 28 men camped on the drifting sea ice for five months, then took to three lifeboats and reached Elephant Island. From there, six of them sailed a 22-foot boat 800 miles to South Georgia, and three of those six walked across the island's mountains, which no one had ever...
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Shackleton's Endurance, Part 1: The Drift
In January 1915 the Endurance was frozen into the ice of the Weddell Sea, and she never sailed again. How the expedition was paid for, how the ship was built and the crew chosen, the long winter aboard, and the slow drift that left 28 men stranded on the ice. Cover photo: the Endurance held fast…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Long, quiet history, read slowly enough to fall asleep to.
Real events, told at an easy pace, with the small details left in: the weather, the dates, the names of the people who were there. Put it on and close your eyes.
Narrated by an AI voice.
You'll hear the ending eventually. Probably not tonight.
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History to Sleep Through
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Long, quiet history, read slowly enough to fall asleep to. Real events, told at an easy pace, with the small details left in: the weather, the dates, the names of the people who were there. Put it on and close your eyes. Narrated by an AI voice. You'll hear the ending eventually. Probably not...
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