Nocturne

116 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings

A storytelling show that explores the night, the landscape of the unseen, and how thoughts, feelings and behaviors transform in the dark

Personal Journals Society & Culture
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Episodes

To a Distant Continent

February 29, 2016 17:44 - 27 minutes - 62.7 MB

Lynne Cox has spent her life swimming vast distances and pushing herself to the edges of possibility. Since the beginning, she has thrived on exploring uncharted territories, including the ocean at night.

Best Feeling in the World

January 28, 2016 20:52 - 24 minutes - 55 MB

The night can be like the great frontier to a kid; a forbidden zone; the perfect place to explore autonomy and independence. At first it might be tempting for parents to just lay down the law. But they're up against a lot. They're up against the best feeling in the world.

Letting Go

December 30, 2015 04:32 - 25 minutes - 58.9 MB

Sleep can serve as both refuge and captor. That’s the case for Monica, who’s blessed with the enviable ability to consistently sleep through the night, almost without fail, no matter what’s going on. During one of the most difficult times of her life, this gift became a painful liability.

Stars in Unison

November 23, 2015 18:08 - 21 minutes - 49.5 MB

The moon, the stars and the tides are through-lines connecting us to the beginning of life on our planet. These lines can flicker in and out of awareness in the glare of modern culture. But there are ancient creatures living among us, for whom every breath is a reflection of the moon on the water. One in a thousand hatchling sea turtles survive to make it back to the beach of their birth, lay their own eggs, and complete the cycle. There are a hundred ways for things to go wrong.

Triumph’s Ring

October 27, 2015 21:14 - 24 minutes - 55.1 MB

Things happen sometimes that don’t make sense, that we can’t explain. And would we really want to if we could?

Playground Rules

September 13, 2015 21:26 - 24 minutes - 55.8 MB

The blurred edges of the night can inspire excitement and transformation. The shroud of darkness emboldens some to reveal hidden aspects of their personality, sometimes with gleeful abandon.

Forward Momentum

August 11, 2015 20:28 - 17 minutes - 40.5 MB

Sometimes the best way out of the darkness is to walk through it. A woman transforms her life through motion.

Into, Under, Through

July 06, 2015 20:23 - 26 minutes - 59.9 MB

The darkness of night offers rich opportunities to mine and explore our fears. When you choose to walk straight into the darkness you don’t know what you’ll find; both outside in the shadows, and deep inside yourself.

The Vanishing Dark

June 04, 2015 17:53 - 30 minutes - 69 MB

The stars are disappearing. We're losing natural darkness. It's happened rapidly, but just slowly enough that it's hard to notice. But once your eyes open to the vanishing dark, you see it everywhere. Can we bring back the night sky?

(This is Not) A Love Song

May 01, 2015 18:05 - 24 minutes - 56 MB

A man, a bird, and a hose. The sounds of night can delight or enrage, in equal parts; and lack of sleep can lead to desperate measures, in some.

A Hole in the Night

April 01, 2015 19:58 - 25 minutes - 58.2 MB

Al Wilkinson drove a big rig through the night for 28 years, and it was a new experience each time. The runs offered beautiful scenery and time to think, but one dark rainy night this peaceful solitude fell out from under him.

Alter Hours

March 06, 2015 07:56 - 27 minutes - 63.2 MB

Amanda Gefter is nocturnal. Really. Being an extreme night owl works for her in a lot of ways, especially since she makes her living as a writer. But her normal patterns are being shaken up by a new love in her life – the first day-dwelling guy she’s ever been with. Since their schedules overlap very little, Amanda needs to figure out how much of her relationship with the night she can keep, and how much she needs to change for love.