Tonight's bedtime story is The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child. In this story, an old bamboo cutter finds a bright being amongst his bamboo one day. She grows up to be beautiful and pursued by many suitors. Where is she from? Will she find love?

The Bamboo Cutter And The Moon Child

Listen to the familiar story of Snow White, an evil stepmother, and a chatty mirror.

Snow White

Need help drifting off to sleep? Settle in with a familiar bedtime story - Hansel and Gretel. Sweet Dreams...

Hansel And Gretel

Drift off to sleep with a reading of the classic fairy tale, Thumbelina, from Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale collection.

Thumbelina: A Fairytale Sleep Story

This is the story of a poor boy's rise from rags to riches with the help of his cat.

Dick Whittington And His Cat

Tonight's story is the well-known fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast. This version is taken from the Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, published in 1889. Warning* This story includes some unpleasant scenes.

Beauty And The Beast - Bedtime Story

Drift off to sleep with a reading of The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde.

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

Struggling to fall asleep? Distract your mind with The Remarkable Rocket by Oscar Wilde. Sweet Dreams...

The Remarkable Rocket By Oscar Wilde

Struggling to fall asleep? Distract your mind with the familiar fairytale Cinderella. Sweet Dreams...

Fall Asleep to the story of Cinderella

This story features another Snow White, her sister, and an ungrateful dwarf.

Snow White And Rose Red

Struggling to fall asleep? Quiet your mind with the story of Heidi by Johanna Spyri. First published in 1881, this book is one of the best-selling books in the world. In this episode, Heidi, a five-year-old girl, travels up the mountainside with her aunt Dete on their way to her hermit grandfather. Along the way, Dete shares the story of Alm-Uncle with her friend Barbel.

Heidi - A Classic Bedtime Story

Feeling stressed? Relax tonight with Aladdin, a folk tale to help you fall asleep. You know this tale of a boy and his magic lamp. But this isn't quite like the Disney version.

Aladdin: A Story To Help You Sleep

Can't sleep? Drift off to tonight's sleep story, the Norwegian fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon. This version of the story was collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. A white bear asks a poor man for his prettiest daughter in exchange for riches. Does he agree?

East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon

Tonight's sleep story is A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield. Published in May 1922, it is a poignant tale about greed, hypocrisy, and insecurity.

A Cup of Tea - Katherine Mansfield

Tonight's sleep story, The Magic Apples by Abbie Farwell Brown, features Loki - the Norse god of mischief. This story was published in the book In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales in 1902. Loki helps a Giant to steal Idun and her magic apples. Can he redeem himself?

Loki Sleep Story - The Magic Apples

Listen to the mythical story of King Arthur and His Knights by Maude Radford. I recently watched (and enjoyed!) the show Merlin with my husband and was drawn to this story. There are many adaptations of the story of King Arthur. In this story, a noble boy pulls a sword from a stone and becomes King.

King Arthur: How Arthur Became King

Listen to the story of Rumpelstiltskin: a Grimm fairytale about a man that can spin straw into gold. For a heavy price.

Rumpelstiltskin: A Relaxing Fairytale

Listen to the classic Grimms' fairytale about a hard-working shoemaker and the elves that help him when all is lost.

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Fall into a deep sleep tonight with the old English fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. There are a number of versions of this tale. This version was retold by Flora Annie Steel and published in 1918.

Jack And The Beanstalk - Bedtime Story

Snuggle down tonight with The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. Sweet Dreams...

The Tale Of Peter Rabbit

Unwind with the fairytale Puss in Boots. You have probably encountered the Puss in Boots character in the Shrek movie series as well as his own movie in 2011. There are a number of versions of this tale but all feature a very clever cat that uses trickery to help his master.

Puss In Boots - Relaxing Fairytale Story

Feeling stressed? Relax tonight with the opening chapters of the Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. Published in 1872, it is a fantasy novel that inspired authors like Tolkien and G.K Chesterton. In this episode, Princess Irene meets her very old grandmother who lives alone in a room. Spinning. Very strange.

The Princess And The Goblin

Tonight's bedtime story is Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. Published in 1819 in a collection of stories called "The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", it is the story of a farmer that heads to the mountains to avoid his wife. He meets strangely dressed, odd-looking men along the way. Should he partake in the liquor in their flagon? Methinks not.

Rip Van Winkle - Sleep Story

Relax to the familiar tale of a girl with long hair stuck in a tower.

Rapunzel - A Relaxing Fairy Tale

Tonight's story to help you sleep is the opening chapters of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Alice in Wonderland - Sleep Story

Taesha Glasgow

Sleep Story Narrator

AFGHANISTAN

ALAND ISLANDS

ALBANIA

ALGERIA

AMERICAN SAMOA

ANDORRA

ANGOLA

ANGUILLA

ANTARCTICA

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

ARGENTINA

ARMENIA

ARUBA

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRIA

AZERBAIJAN

BAHAMAS

BAHRAIN

BANGLADESH

BARBADOS

BELARUS

BELGIUM

BELIZE

BENIN

BERMUDA

BHUTAN

BOLIVIA

BONAIRE, SINT EUSTATIUS AND SABA

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

BOTSWANA

BOUVET ISLAND

BRAZIL

BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY

BRUNEI DARUSSALAM

BULGARIA

BURKINA FASO

BURUNDI

CAMBODIA

CAMEROON

CANADA

CAPE VERDE

CAYMAN ISLANDS

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

CHAD

CHILE

CHINA

CHRISTMAS ISLAND

COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS

COLOMBIA

COMOROS

CONGO

CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE

COOK ISLANDS

COSTA RICA

COTE D'IVOIRE

CROATIA

CUBA

CURACAO

CYPRUS

CZECHIA

DENMARK

DJIBOUTI

DOMINICA

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

ECUADOR

EGYPT

EL SALVADOR

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

ERITREA

ESTONIA

ETHIOPIA

FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS)

FAROE ISLANDS

FIJI

FINLAND

FRANCE

FRENCH GUIANA

FRENCH POLYNESIA

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES

GABON

GAMBIA

GEORGIA

GERMANY

GHANA

GIBRALTAR

GREECE

GREENLAND

GRENADA

GUADELOUPE

GUAM

GUATEMALA

GUERNSEY

GUINEA

GUINEA-BISSAU

GUYANA

HAITI

HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

HOLY SEE (VATICAN CITY STATE)

HONDURAS

HONG KONG

Tonight's snoozy tale is the fairytale Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault also known as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods. There are a number of versions of this tale dating back to the 1300s. This version might be a little different from the one that you remember from your childhood.

Sleeping Beauty - Fall Asleep Fast

Tonight's sleepy tale is The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim. Published in 1922, it is the story of four disparate women who travel to a medieval castle in Italy for a holiday. In this episode, Mrs. Wilkins sees the ad for the castle in the Times and meets Mrs. Arbuthnot for the first time.

The Enchanted April

Struggling to fall asleep? Distract your mind with stories from Aesop's Fables. Drift off to many familiar stories like the Tortoise and the Hare and the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Aesop, a storyteller from Ancient Greece, has been credited with fables told over several centuries after his death.

Aesop's Fables - Sleep Stories

Struggling to fall asleep? Distract your mind with Little Annie's Dream, a flowery sleepy story by Louisa May Alcott. The Flower Fables were published in 1854. This collection of fairy stories was Alcott's first published work. In this story, Annie wants to be a good child but unkind thoughts prevail. How will a fairy help her?

Little Annie's Dream - Louisa May Alcott

Tonight's bedtime story is Momotaro or The Story of the Son of a Peach. A Japanese fairy tale compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki. In this story, an old couple finds a giant peach, and inside it, a little boy. Some years later, their son decides to fight demons on an island and meets some friends along the way to help him with his mission.

Momotaro - A Fairy Tale Sleep Story

Tonight's sleep story is Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Published in book form in 1883, Pinocchio, or "The Adventures of Pinocchio" is one the best-selling books ever. Adapted numerous times on TV and in films, the original Pinocchio character might be a little bit different from the Disney version you might remember. In this episode, Geppetto fashions a puppet from a unique piece of wood. Then the adventures begin...

Pinocchio

Tonight's bedtime story is A Little Cloud by James Joyce. This story appears in Joyce's 1914 collection Dubliners. Little Chandler meets up with an old friend that has been living the high life in London.

A Little Cloud By James Joyce

Tonight's story is to help you fall asleep, "The Magic Shop" by H.G. Wells. Gip and his father visit a magic shop that claims to use only genuine magic! Glass balls out of ears, rabbits under hats, disappearing acts, is it all fake, or is something else going on?

The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells

Tonight's bedtime story is Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. This novel was first published in 1864 in French and then in 1871 in English. In this episode, Axel and his uncle Otto Liedenbrock try to decipher the code from a note discovered in an old manuscript.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Tonight's bedtime story is Momotaro or The Story of the Son of a Peach. A Japanese fairy tale compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki. In this story, an old couple finds a giant peach, and inside it, a little boy. Some years later, their son decides to fight bad creatures on an island and meets some friends along the way to help him with his mission.

Drift off to sleep with this reading of The Island of the Nine Whirlpools by Edith Nesbit. This story is taken from the Book Of Dragons, a collection of dragon fairy tales published in 1900. In this story, a Princess is stranded on an island surrounded by nine whirlpools by her father. Nice guy. She is waiting for a clever Prince to rescue her but a sailor turns up instead.

The Island Of The Nine Whirlpools

Tonight's sleep story is Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Walden; or, Life in the Woods was published in 1854. In this episode, listen to the second chapter "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For". Part of this chapter was quoted in the film Dead Poets' Society.

Walden by Henry Thoreau - Sleep Story

Feeling stressed? Relax tonight with the Sherlock Holmes story, The Red-Headed League, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is one of the stories in the collection of twelve stories called "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and is considered one of the finest works of detective fiction. In this episode, Dr. Watson joins Sherlock in one of his strangest adventures. What is the Red-Headed League? And why are they willing to hire men with fiery red hair?

Sherlock Holmes: The Red Headed League

Fall asleep tonight to the opening chapters of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

Sense and Sensibility - Sleep Story

Listen to a reading of the classic children's story, The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit. First published in book form in 1906, this story has been adapted for radio, tv, and the stage numerous times. In this first chapter, Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis are surprised when their perfect life is shattered when their father is taken away at night under mysterious circumstances. Then, they leave their home and move to Yorkshire to live near a railway station.

The Railway Children

Tonight's sleep story is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1925, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. In this episode, Nick joins Daisy and Tom for dinner and meets the aloof Jordan Baker.

The Great Gatsby

Struggling to fall asleep? Quiet your mind with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Published first in 1868, it follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. In this episode, the girls donate their Christmas breakfast to a family in need and put on a play on Christmas night.