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The Sleeping Almanac
Peter Pan · The Original Story
The voice you hear is the creator's own. He cloned it from recordings of his own voice, so every story is told in his voice. If you enjoy falling asleep to it, follow the show so each new story arrives on its own, and leave a rating on Apple Podcasts so other people can find it.
A slow, calm 3 hour fairy tale sleep story to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. Tonight the storyteller opens the old book to Peter Pan, as J. M. Barrie wrote him in 1911. A nursery at number fourteen, a large gentle dog for a nurse, a boy who comes back for his lost shadow, and directions no map has ever improved: second star to the right, and straight on till morning. There are mermaids in a lagoon, a patient Never bird on her floating nest, a little house built around a sleeping girl, and a window kept open at the end, because some windows always are.
Settle in, close your eyes, and let it drift over you. The pacing is slow, the voice is soft, and the music never spikes. There is a pirate in it, but tonight he is more pocket watch than menace, and the nursery window stays open the whole time. There is nothing here to fear. You do not have to watch. You do not have to remember any of it in the morning.
Episode 5 of 12 · The Storybook Season
Where this sits: Part 5 of 12 in The Storybook Season, one storyteller, one lantern, and one complete famous tale each night, each told from its original source. Tonight, the boy who would not grow up. Every episode stands on its own, and any night is a fine night to begin.
Chapters
- 0:00Welcome
- 2:39The Nursery at Number Fourteen
- 16:41The Boy Who Came for His Shadow
- 37:11Second Star to the Right
- 46:57The Island That Woke
- 59:45The Little House
- 1:09:53The Home Under the Ground
- 1:20:30The Mermaids' Lagoon
- 1:33:15The Never Bird
- 1:40:20Wendy's Story
- 1:48:02The Gentleman and the Clock
- 1:57:20The Window Left Open
- 2:04:53Goodnight. And the Lamp at the Edge of Morning
This show uses AI tools (research, narration, visuals) under human editorial direction. Every episode is reviewed before release.