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Sleeping Through the Pages
by Brew Another Page
History is full of stories worth staying awake for. We tell them so you don’t have to.Sleeping Through the Pages is a journey through the people, places, objects, books, myths, and ideas that shaped the world around us. Each episode begins somewhere familiar—a book, a building, a meal, a holiday, a journey—and follows the story wherever history takes us.These are carefully researched stories told slowly and calmly, without sacrificing the parts that make history interesting. Listen closely and you may learn something. Let your mind wander and you may fall asleep.Either way, there will always be another page.
Episodes
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Titanic: What If It Never Sank?
What if Titanic had missed the iceberg and arrived safely in New York? Follow the world’s most famous ocean liner through an alternate history of decades at sea, World War I, and a retirement without tragedy. Along the way, discover how Titanic’s survival might have changed maritime safety…
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The Real Willy Wonka: How Did Chocolate Go from Royalty to S’mores?
What does a campfire s’more have in common with ancient cacao, Willy Wonka, and a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania? Follow chocolate’s remarkable journey from a prized drink and form of currency to an everyday treat. Along the way, discover how Milton Hershey overcame business failures, built an...
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Paris on Fire: Why Does Paris Keep Burning Itself Down?
Paris is the city of romance, cafés, and the Eiffel Tower. It’s also a city with a centuries-long habit of building barricades, overthrowing governments, and setting things on fire. From medieval uprisings and the French Revolution to Les Misérables, the Paris Commune, and modern protests, we...
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The Berlin Wall: Spies, Daring Escapes, and Life in a Divided City
How do you escape a wall that divides an entire city—and what happens when thousands of people decide they shouldn’t have to? During the Cold War, Berlin became one of the strangest cities on Earth. Apartment windows became escape routes. Subway trains passed through forbidden ghost stations.…
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The Two Europes: The Rise and Fall of the Iron Curtain
How did Europe, a continent that had just survived World War II, become divided into two very different worlds? In 1946, Winston Churchill warned that an “Iron Curtain” had descended across Europe. But the division was already taking shape. Former wartime allies were becoming rivals, governments...
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The Illusion of a Golden Past: The Great Gatsby and the Roaring Twenties
Was the past really better, or does it simply look that way from a distance? In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire throws extravagant parties at his Long Island mansion, hoping to recapture a romance that ended five years earlier. Across the water, a small green…
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The Odyssey: Where did Odysseus Really Go?
What if we could follow Odysseus home—not aboard an ancient Greek ship, but from the comfort of a modern luxury yacht? For nearly 3,000 years, Homer’s Odyssey has taken readers across a Mediterranean filled with cyclopes, enchantresses, shipwrecks, and mysterious islands. But how much of that...
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How Tomatoes Became Italian: Columbus, Naples, and Pasta
What did Italians eat before tomato sauce? And how did a fruit from the Americas become one of Italy’s most beloved culinary traditions? For centuries, Italian kitchens had pasta, cheese, olive oil, and garlic—but no tomatoes. Our journey begins in the Americas, where Indigenous peoples…
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Columbus Day: 1492, Columbia, and Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Why does America have two holidays on the same Monday in October? And what do they reveal about how we remember history? In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic in search of Asia and arrived in a world already inhabited by thriving civilizations. Centuries later, Americans...
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Fort Knox and the Yellow Road: The Wizard of Oz, James Bond & the Magna Carta
What could a girl in silver shoes possibly have to do with America’s most famous gold vault? Follow the yellow brick road from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into one of America’s great arguments about money—and then on to the real history of Fort Knox. Along the way, we’ll encounter...
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Mid-Autumn Moon Festival: Chang'e, Mooncakes, and Why We Look Up
Why do millions of people still look up at the same full Moon when technology has made distance easier than ever to cross? In this episode of Sleeping Through the Pages, we follow the Mid-Autumn Festival across more than two thousand years—from ancient farmers watching the sky to the legend of...
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Where History Begins: The Invention of Writing - From Gilgamesh to AI
For most of human existence, memory disappeared when the people carrying it did. Then we learned to write. In this episode of Sleeping Through the Pages, we follow writing from marks pressed into clay more than five thousand years ago to papyrus, alphabets, paper, books, the printing press, and...
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An Invitation from Sleeping Through the Pages
What happens when the stories worth staying awake for are told calmly enough that you don’t have to? Sleeping Through the Pages follows the people, places, books, myths, objects, and ideas that shaped our world—through carefully researched stories told slowly and calmly. Listen closely and you…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
History is full of stories worth staying awake for. We tell them so you don’t have to.Sleeping Through the Pages is a journey through the people, places, objects, books, myths, and ideas that shaped the world around us. Each episode begins somewhere familiar—a book, a building, a meal, a holiday, a journey—and follows the story wherever history takes us.These are carefully researched stories told slowly and calmly, without sacrificing the parts that make history interesting. Listen closely and you may learn something. Let your mind wander and you may fall asleep.Either way, there will always be another page.
HOSTED BY
Brew Another Page
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History is full of stories worth staying awake for. We tell them so you don’t have to.Sleeping Through the Pages is a journey through the people, places, objects, books, myths, and ideas that shaped the world around us. Each episode begins somewhere familiar—a book, a building, a meal, a holiday, a...
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