Snoozecast
Snoozecast is the podcast designed to help you fall asleep.
Episodes air every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Learn about our premium listening options at snoozecast.com/plus, which unlocks ad-free listening to our expanded catalog, including bonus original stories.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 1073
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
The Door in the Wall
Tonight, we’ll read “The Door in the Wall,” a short story written in 1911 by H.G. Wells. Considered to be one of his finest short stories, it explores the tension between the rational and the fancifu…
00:44:13 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Peaks of Shala
Tonight, we’ll read from the opening to the 1923 travel memoir Peaks of Shala by Rose Wilder Lane. It is about a walking tour of mountainous Albania.
The daughter of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder, L…
00:30:01 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Persuasion pt. 17
Tonight, we shall read the next part to “Persuasion”, the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen, and published in 1817. The story concerns Anne Elliot, an Englishwoman whose family moves in order…
00:29:39 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Tonight, for our Snoozecast+ Deluxe bonus episode, we’ll read from "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" translated poetically into English by Edward Fitzgerald. This first edition, inspired by Persian rhym…
00:07:00 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
The Mirror of Matsuyama
Tonight, we’ll read “The Mirror of Matsuyama,” a story found in Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki in 1908.
This tale explores the quiet strength of familial love and the power of memory, al…
00:41:30 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Tonight, we’ll read the complete story of “East of the Sun, West of the Moon”, a Norwegian fairy tale, collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe.
In this story, a talking bear approaches a poor peasant and ask…
00:42:03 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
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00:05:57 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
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00:01:45 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
Middlemarch
Tonight, we’ll read the opening to “Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life” written by English author George Eliot, and originally published in 1871.
George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.…
00:32:16 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
Hickorynuts and Sunshine
Tonight, we’ll read selections about baking breads and cakes from “The Charlotte Sunshine Cook Book” published in 1906.
This episode begins with a long-form poem that sings the praises of homemade b…
00:33:28 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
The House at Pooh Corner pt. 5
Tonight, we’ll continue the 1928 children's book by A. A. Milne “The house at Pooh Corner”.
In the last episode of Winnie-the-Pooh Tigger told Roo that Tiggers can do everything–even climb trees. S…
00:24:30 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
The Little Mermaid pt. 2
Tonight, we’ll read the second half to “The Little Mermaid” written by Hans Christian Andersen and adapted by Snoozecast.
In the first half, we learn about the little mermaid and her family. The lit…
00:41:37 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
The Little Mermaid pt. 1
Tonight, we’ll read the first half to “The Little Mermaid” written by Hans Christian Andersen and adapted by Snoozecast. The second half will air in our next episode. This story follows the journey o…
00:37:30 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
Thousandth Episode Spectacular!
Tonight, for our one thousandth episode, we’re doing something a little different—a bit of meta fun as we take a look back.
Toward the end, we share a special joint reading of an original story: The…
00:32:30 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
Marmalades and Other Sweetmeats
Tonight, we’ll read a selection of marmalade and sweetmeat recipes from Miss Leslie’s New Cookery Book, published in 1857.
A type of sugar confectionery, “sweetmeats” is where the term “sweets” come…
00:34:30 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
A Case of Identity | Sherlock Holmes
Tonight, we'll read the full, Snoozecast-adapted version “A Case of Identity”, a story from “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, written by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1892. Snoozecast …
01:01:27 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Anne of Green Gables pt. 27
Tonight, we’ll read the 27th chapter of “Anne of Green Gables”, the classic 1908 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This chapter is titled “Vanity and the Vexation of Spirit”
In the previous chapter, A…
00:22:30 |
Sat 22 Mar 2025
The Great Kite Caper of Crinkle Creek
Tonight, we’ll read a Snoozecast original, “The Great Kite Caper of Crinkle Creek.”
Every March, the sky over the town of Crinkle Creek bursts with color as kites of all shapes and sizes take flight…
00:07:17 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Apollo and Marpessa
Tonight, we’ll read the myth about a love triangle between mortals Idas, Marpessa, and the ancient Greek god Apollo. It is taken from “A Book of Myths” compiled by Jean Lang and published in 1914.
A…
00:31:55 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Spectacle Secrets
Tonight, we’ll read from “Spectacle Secrets” written by George Cox and published in 1844. The real “secret of the spectacle” may be how to remember the difference between the role of an optician, an …
00:30:40 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
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