Stories from the Borders of Sleep
A semi-regular podcast, featuring original stories, fantastic fables and curious tales written and read by your host, Seymour Jacklin. Each episode takes the listener on an imaginative and thought-provoking journey. Aimed at adults but very suitable for children, too.
- Update frequency
- every 41 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 60
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2024
Bear Bridge
A tale in which a baker gets the better of some savage bears with the help of a mysterious miller.
Subterranean
Stitched together from ideas that occurred to me while out walking the dog, my ponderings on the nature of fear, a dream from a long time ago, and a more recent journey in my own soul - it kind of em…
The Seven Legged Spider
This story does not do what it says on the tin. Not to give too much away, but: It is based on a folk tale that is still told in many variations across the world. I remember hearing it as a child. us…
Wild Blue Yonder
Here is a deep dive into the ocean and beyond, to carry you far away in your imagination, to dream within dreams, or just to help you get to sleep ... enjoy!
Beth and the Emerantil
A story of a young girl who intends to become a princess by marrying a prince one day, yet in a single night she meets a strange shadow and an even stranger creature who shows her things no princess …
Tolly-pep-me
A fragment of autobiographical memory, introducing one of the many creatures that inhabited my childhood.
A Tale of TwoPots
Another folk tale adapted for "Stories from the Borders of Sleep" by Seymour Jacklin. If you are enjoying these stories please rate them on iTunes or leave some feedback on the website: http://www.bo…
Between Two Tides
Here is another story that is a retelling of a vivid and lengthy dream I had many years ago. A stranger is washed up on a beach, barely alive. Years later he tries to recover his memories of a very d…
Clown
This is a story about ... a clown, that's about all I can say without giving the game away!
Balthazar's Chandelier
Welcome to episode 11 of Stories from the Borders of Sleep, which tells of an extraordinary day in the life of a humble servant who was trying his best to keep a low profile ...
This is one of many s…
Swee-swee and the Cobbler
I adapted this story from one that appears in the writings of Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian Christian pastor who was imprisoned by the communists for his faith. He spent some 14 years in prison, much…
Two Handkerchiefs
The latest podcast from www.bordersofsleep.com. This one is a "fairy tale" ... well ... it does have fairies in it but it may not be "happily ever after" in the quite the same way as most fairy tales…
The Trespassers
A cautionary tale, and not for the feint of heart. This is a story about what befalls a party of revellers on their way home one night.
The Cat and The Mouse
Dear Listener,
Traditionally we know that cats and mice do not get on with one another - it's a cat-eat-mouse world! But here is a story that just asks "what if" a particular cat and a particular mou…
Midsummer
Three schoolboys and an idyllic midsummer evening on the river Thames, echoing in the memory forever.
This is a short snapshot, the very briefest of autobiographical sketches from my early teens.
Enj…
Greatness
Dear Listener,
What is greatness, anyway? I guess we all have a different idea of what it means to be "great". Here is a story about someone who was rather like a lot of us, and certainly a lot like …
One Stormy Night
What are archaeologists really looking for? This one is digging up his own soul. This week's story is longer than the usual Borders of Sleep fare and certainly longer than I would normally podcast; …
Tree and Stream
If you were water, what sort of water would you be?
Would you be the water in a stream or the water in a tree?
Or would you be ice or vapour?
And what would it be like to be able to see the path of a…
Water in the Desert
Here's a story that is a precise retelling of a dream that I had many years ago. Make of it what you will; but, for my part, I have never been able to escape the feeling that there is more life to be…
The Prince and the Bird
Where a prince discovers that everything in his kingdom is also in his own soul.