Sleepy Time Voice Podcast

A podcast to help you fall asleep. A welcome to your own bed where Richard reads you familiar stories in a comforting voice. New short stories every Wednesday, and continuing longer stories updated on Saturdays.

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SleepyTimeVoice: Bedtime Stories To Help You Sleep - Prayer For A Child by Rachel Field

Rachel Field was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for the Newbery Award–winning Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list. Prayer for a Child is a 1944 book with artwork by Elizabeth Orton Jones, which won a Caldecott Medal in 1945, an award that recognizes the previous year's most distinguished American picture book for children. The book is ...

Mar 10, 2021•3 min

SleepyTimeVoice: Bedtime Stories To Help You Sleep - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Part Three

The first in our long form series of stories, this reading encompasses the fifth and sixth chapters of Frances Hodgson Burnett's work The Secret Garden. First published in 1911, this book has been read for generations. It is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made, and now it can help you fall asleep thanks to a soothing reading by Richard Huskisson. Mary Lennox continues to explore the outs...

Mar 06, 2021•26 min

SleepyTimeVoice: Bedtime Stories To Help You Sleep - The Tale Of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Helen Beatrix Potter, better known as Beatrix Potter, was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist. She is best known for her twenty-three children's books beginning with this story. One of the best-selling children's books, with 45 million copies sold, and originally printed in 1901 privately by author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, it has been translated into 36 languages, and continued to delight children for over a century. The story follows mischievous and diso...

Mar 04, 2021•7 min

SleepyTimeVoice: Bedtime Stories To Help You Sleep - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Part Two

The first in our long form series of stories, this reading encompasses the second two chapters of Frances Hodgson Burnett's work The Secret Garden. First published in 1911, this book has been read for generations. It is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made, and now it can help you fall asleep thanks to a soothing reading by Richard Huskisson. Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor to ...

Feb 28, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 2

SleepyTimeVoice: Bedtime Stories To Help You Sleep - Buckingham Palace by A.A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne, better known as Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne, famously wrote this poem about the ceremony of the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. It is one of London’s most famous ceremonies, with immaculately turned-out guards, stirring music and military precision drills combining to create a stunning spectacle. In this tale Christopher Robin, based on the author's own son, and Alice go to see the ceremony every day. This and many other poems, were bundled into a book calle...

Feb 24, 2021•3 min

SleepyTimeVoice: Bedtime Stories To Help You Sleep - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Part One

The first in our long form series of stories, this reading encompasses the first two chapters of Frances Hodgson Burnett's work The Secret Garden. First published in 1911, this book has been read for generations. It is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made, and now it can help you fall asleep thanks to a soothing reading by Richard Huskisson. Join Mary Lennox as she discovers her old life ...

Feb 23, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 1

SleepyTimeVoice: Bedtime Stories To Help You Sleep - Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

This bedtime story to help you sleep is the story that inspired this podcast. A simple short story to read to children at bedtime. There are many people who have trouble falling asleep at night, from babes in the crib all the way to grown ups in bed, and this story has helped many fall asleep for most of a century. Published in 1947 and written by Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon is the second in Brown and illustrator Clement Hurd's "classic series." It entered the public domain in Canada in ...

Feb 23, 2021•3 min

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