• Summary

  • Do you have trouble drifting off to sleep? My mission is simple. To help you relax, put the stressful day behind you and drift off to sleep. In every episode, I will read an old story in the public domain. So lie down, settle into your pillow, close your eyes, and let me read you a story to help you sleep.

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  • The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child - A Fairy Tale Sleep Story

    The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child - A Fairy Tale Sleep Story
    May 15 2022

    Tonight's bedtime story is The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child. A Japanese fairy tale compiled by Yei Theodora Ozaki. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app. 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?


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    If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app. Also, share with any family or friends that might have trouble drifting off.


    Sweet Dreams...




    Intro Music by the Psychedelic Squirrel


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    36 mins
  • Oliver Twist: Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place by Charles Dickens

    Oliver Twist: Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place by Charles Dickens
    May 12 2022

    Tonight's sleep story is the continuation of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Published in 1837, this social novel explores the themes of poverty, class, and injustice in 19th century England. In this episode, a chimney sweep is interested in taking Oliver on as an apprentice. After all, he needs money for his rent!


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    If you like this episode, please follow the podcast in your favourite podcast app. Also, share with any family or friends that might have trouble drifting off to sleep.


    Goodnight and Sweet Dreams....


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    37 mins
  • Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville

    Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
    May 8 2022

    Can't fall asleep? Drift off tonight to Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville. If you like this episode, please remember to follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app.



    If you'd like to support the podcast, you can buy me a coffee here ------> buymeacoffee.com/justsleeppod


    If you like this episode, please follow the podcast in your favourite podcast app. Also, share with any family or friends that might have trouble drifting off to sleep.


    Goodnight and Sweet Dreams....


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    47 mins
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EVERY EPISODE ENDS WITH AN ALARM TONE.

Ideally dull stories. Read by someone with the perfect voice and cadence to knock you out. And then it ends with this cute little ring tone that wakes you right back up, then if you have auto play on, it plays it again for the beginning of the next episode. I don't know what genius decided they’d church-up a podcast for sleeping with a cheerful wake-up ring tone, but they desperately missed the mark.
Good reader, I’ll be looking for her in something produced by someone who knows what their intended audience is.

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Relaxing

Just what I was looking for to distract my overly active mind toward relaxation and sleep. Thank you!

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Great stories, great reader, better sleep

This narrator is very skilled and adeptly captures your interest while lulling you into sleep.

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Love this podcast

I actually LOVE all the stories in this podcast. They are classic hand picked stories.
The narrator has a soothing relaxing voice.
Very relaxing and helpful...so happy I found this.

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The Voice

The woman narrating speaks like William Shatner as Capt. Kirk. She pauses at odd jerky intervals, I found THAT so annoying that it stressed me out.

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Not bad overall

Just not my thing. Most of the episodes are too short to truly call asleep too. If you let them play one after the other you then have to listen to her speak about her supporters and how to support her. Ruins the vibe of actually trying to sleep. Great stories and calming voice, though. Just best for calming down and not as background noise.

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Perfect Distraction to Sleep

This podcast immediately seems familiar and comforting allowing my mind to take a break and listen until I doze off.

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I do love it helps me go to sleep every night

Love it , I t helps me go to sleep , Tasha has a great voice

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I love it

I have so much going on right now and my busy mind keeps me from getting decent sleep. Since discovering this podcast, I’m sound asleep within half an hour. It’s exactly what I need to quiet my troubled mind. The reader’s voice and cadence of speaking is clear and soothing. My nightly habit.

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Author’s voice

Her diction and pauses are not calming or soothing. Good story though
In order for sleep stories to allow the brain to rest and fall asleep, much detail and pleasing voice is necessary to lead the sleeper to rest

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  • Kindle Customer
  • 03-30-22

Sounded Robotic and Stopped A Lot .

I didn't enjoy listening to this at all as Taesha sounded more like a robot speaking and she paused a lot so if I did try and relax into the story I wasn't able to do so.
I couldn't even listen to 5 minutes of this episode let alone all the episodes.
Also the music was too loud so I could not hear Taesha very well and thought she was whispering.
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  • MISS T ATKINS
  • 02-26-22

You're voice. The accent, im in love

The absolute best marry me my lovely lady. Hold me, and just read to me 😍😍

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  • Eleanor-Rose
  • 01-05-22

helps with sleeping

Helps me drift off to sleep. I love the stories chosen too, great classics

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  • ABFrance
  • 12-23-21

Can't hear a word they're saying

There's music in the background that drowns out the voice completely, couldn't hear a single word, so got frustrated and turned it off barely 2 mins into it.

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  • Lara Martiniani
  • 12-06-21

Wonderful but doesn't aid sleep

I love this podcast and the narrator's voice is wonderful, and it is relaxing, however, it unfortunately doesn't help me sleep as I feel like the pace of the stories and the stories themselves are not the soothing sleep stories I'm used to.

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  • yellox84
  • 11-22-21

such a soothing voice

I love listening to this podcast, especially the Far From The Madding Crowd and Mrs Dalloway episodes which I go back to often.

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  • Janine
  • 11-19-21

Perfect’

With the intention to fall asleep in mind Taesha reads these books perfectly. One story I listen to a lot is North and South. I really wanted to know what happened in the rest of the story so thought I would download the full audiobook. I listened to a sample with Juliet Stevenson as the reader and it wasn’t relaxing at all. So much emotion and inflection in her voice and it was then I realised just how perfectly Taesha reads these books. Going through menopause, insomnia has been a regular occurrence but I almost always fall asleep by the end. The only thing I would change is the music at the end. This wakes me up. So I set the timer to switch off just a few seconds before. Thank you so much Taesha!

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 10-17-21

I love these stories!

I listen to this podcast every night whilst falling asleep now. I find the tone of voice and everything just perfect - it's quiet, soothing but still interesting. Thanks for this excellent work.

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  • - and that:s a fact.
  • 10-12-21

Unlistenable

A really terrible, robotic and characterless, voice.
It's incredible that a human being talks like this. No!

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  • Sophia E.
  • 10-05-21

Not a relaxing voice

This is not relaxing at all. The way this person talks is both soulless and jolting.