Snoozecast
776 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 758 ratingsSnoozecast is the podcast designed to help you fall asleep.
Episodes air every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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The Magic Cloak pt. 7
January 08, 2021 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to our “Magic Cloak” series, from the book “Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak”, a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and published in 1905. To unlock full episodes of this series, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. “The Magic Cloak” episode one aired on Nov 11, 2019. If you’d like to listen to the previous...
Peter Pan pt. 9
January 06, 2021 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we shall read the next chapter to “Peter Pan”, the 1911 novel by J.M. Barrie. To unlock full episodes of this series, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. In the last episode, the children are napping on Marooner’s Rock in the Mermaid’s Lagoon, when they realize pirates are near and dive underwater. The pirates caught Tiger Lily, from the island tribe, s...
The Snow Queen
January 04, 2021 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers.Tonight, we’ll read a fairy tale called “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen. The story centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kay. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The story is one of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories. It was also the inspiration for the Disney m...
The Fiery Maiden and the Sun
January 01, 2021 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read a folktale called “Aponibolinayen and the Sun”, from the book “Philippine Folk Tales” published in 1916, compiled by anthropologist Mabel Cook Cole. This story comes from the Ting-yen or Itneg people, who live in a mountainous region in the Philippines. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The Itnegs believe in the exi...
Heidi pt. 10
December 30, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to the classic children’s story “Heidi”, published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. If you’d like to start from the beginning, you’ll find that the very first episode aired on March 8th, 2019. If you’d like to listen to the last episode before this one, it aired on October 28th, 2020. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and m...
Baking Cookiezzz
December 25, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutesTonight, we’ll read the section on baking cookies from “Woman’s Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4”, written by The Woman’s Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences. This is the same set of cookbooks Snoozecast’s “Breadtime” episode draws from. The Woman’s Institute was founded by Mary Brooks Picken in Scranton, PA. Born in Kansas in 1886, Picken wrote the first dictionary to be published by a woman in the English language, beyond the over one hundred other books she wrote." — read by 'V...
The Chess Master, Paul Morphy
December 21, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening to “The Exploits and Triumphs, In Europe, of Paul Morphy, The Chess Champion.” It was published in 1859 and written by Frederick Milnes Edge, who was Morphy’s secretary. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. Paul Morphy, born in New Orleans in 1837, was considered the greatest chess player of his era. He was...
A Scottish Tour
December 18, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening to “Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803”, a travel memoir by Dorothy Wordsworth. Her six-week, 663-mile journey through the Scottish Highlands with her brother William Wordsworth and mutual friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge has been called a masterpiece and one of the best Scottish travel writings during a century which saw hundreds of such examp...
The Princess and the Goblin pt. 8
December 16, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to “The Princess and the Goblin”, a children’s fantasy novel, published in 1872. To unlock full episodes of this series, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. If you’d like to start from the beginning, the first episode aired on April 15th, 2019. If you’d like to listen to the previous episode, part four aired November 6th, 2020. ...
A Christmas Tree
December 14, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read a short story by Charles Dickens called “A Christmas Tree”, from 1850. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. It was only ten years earlier, in 1840, that Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, introduced the German concept of a Christmas tree to England. Before then, nobody in England had placed a Christmas tree in the...
The Secret Garden pt. 6
December 11, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to "The Secret Garden", a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in 1911. Set in England, it is now one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. In the last episode, Mary spends a lot of time out...
Princess Guinevere | King Arthur
December 04, 2020 07:00 - 27 minutesTonight, for the 300th episode of Snoozecast, we’ll read a story about Princess Guinevere from our King Arthur’s series. If you’d like to listen to the first stories in this series, you can find our episode titled “The Sword Excalibur” that aired on April 10, 2020. If you’d like to listen to the previous episode, it aired on September 14, 2020. King Arthur was a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defense of Britain against Saxon invaders in t...
On Soup
December 02, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read excerpts from "The Feasts of Autolycus", including “On Soup” and “The Incomparable Onion”, published in 1900 and edited by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. Pennell was an American travel writer, columnist, biographer and memoirist. Her biographies included the first in alm...
Pride and Prejudice pt. 9
November 30, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutesTonight, we’ll read the next part to “Pride and Prejudice”, written by Jane Austen. If you’d like to listen from the beginning, episode one aired on August 28th, 2019. If you’d like to listen to the last episode, it aired on October 19th, 2020. Pride and Prejudice follows Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and eventually comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. In the previous episode, ...
Little Women ch. 10 "The P.C. and the P.O."
November 27, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutesTonight, we’ll read the next chapter to “Little Women” by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1868, titled “The PC and the PO”. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her sisters. In the previous chapter, Meg allows herself to be made over as a wealthy belle of the ball by the Moffat family she is staying with. She has an emotional roller coaster at th...
The Crystal Egg
November 25, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read a short story by H.G. Wells in 1897 titled “The Crystal Egg”. The story tells of a shop owner, named Mr. Cave, who finds a strange crystal egg that serves as a window into the planet Mars. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. This is the fifth time H.G. Wells has been featured on Snoozecast. If you enjoy this story, be...
The Magic Cloak pt. 6
November 13, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to our Magic Cloak series, from the book “Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak”, a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and published in 1905. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The events of the book alternate between Noland and Ix, two neighboring regions to the Land ...
Peter Pan pt. 8
November 11, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we shall read the next chapter to "Peter Pan", the 1911 novel by J.M. Barrie. If you’d like to start this story from the beginning, you can find the first part aired on March 20th, 2019. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. In the last episode, we learn about the underground abode of the lost boys. Tinkerbell has...
The Princess and the Goblin pt. 7
November 06, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to "The Princess and the Goblin", a children’s fantasy novel, published in 1872. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. One of the most successful and beloved of Victorian fairy tales, George Macdonald’s "The Princess and the Goblin" tells the story of young Princess Irene and her friend Cu...
The Speckled Band | Sherlock Holmes
November 04, 2020 07:00 - 29 minutesTonight, we’ll read the story "The Adventure of The Speckled Band" from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", published in 1891 and written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story tells of Helen Stoner, a soon-to-be married young woman who suspects her stepfather may be trying to kill her in order to retain control of her inheritance. Convinced of her stepfather's intentions, she turns to Holmes for help. "The Speckled Band" is a classic locked room mystery that deals with the themes of paren...
The Jumping Frog
November 02, 2020 07:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the 1865 Mark Twain short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”. It was Twain’s first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler in California, about the gambler named Jim Smiley. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast....
Night Spell
October 30, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutesTonight, for the last episode of our second annual October classic horror series, we’ll read a Snoozecast original called “Night Spell.” It’s Halloween Night and all the nocturnal animals of the forest will be attending a very important function. Where are they off to this evening? Besides a cameo from Maggie in this story, you may also notice poet Robert Frost, for a spell. — read by 'V' — Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn mor...
Heidi pt. 9
October 28, 2020 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to the classic children’s story "Heidi", published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. If you’d like to start from the beginning, you’ll find that the very first episode aired on March 8th, 2019. If you’d like to listen to the last episode before this one, it aired on September 28th, 2020. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and...
Herbs for Incantations
October 26, 2020 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read "Herbs for Incantations", an excerpt from "The Folk-lore of Plants" by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer, published in 1889. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The Reverend Thiselton-Dyer was a British curate and vicar, along with a writer of popular non-fiction books such as this one along with “Strange Pages from Family Papers”...
Dracula
October 23, 2020 17:00 - 46 minutesTonight, during our second annual October classic horror series, we’ll read the opening to "Dracula", an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. "Dracula" introduced the character of Count Dracula and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse. — read by 'M' — Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by ...
The Secret Garden pt. 5
October 21, 2020 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to The Secret Garden, a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in 1911. Set in England, it is now one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. In the last episode, Martha the maid encourages Ma...
Pride and Prejudice pt. 8
October 19, 2020 15:00 - 29 minutesTonight, we’ll read the next part to Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen. If you’d like to listen from the beginning, episode one aired on August 28th, 2019. If you’d like to listen to the last episode, it aired on September 11th, 2020. Pride and Prejudice follows Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and eventually comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. In the previous episode...
The Werewolf Prince
October 16, 2020 14:00 - 44 minutesTonight, for our second annual October classic horror series, we’ll read a Swedish fairytale called The Werewolf. Until the 20th century, wolf attacks on humans were an occasional, but still widespread feature of life in Europe. Some scholars have suggested that it was inevitable that wolves, being the most feared predators in Europe, were projected into the folklore of evil shapeshifters. Areas devoid of wolves typically use different kinds of predator to fill the niche; werehyenas in Afri...
Little Women ch. 9 pt. 2 "Vanity Fair"
October 14, 2020 06:00 - 39 minutesTonight, we’ll read the second part to the ninth chapter of “Little Women” by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1868, titled “Meg Goes to Vanity Fair”. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her sisters. In the previous chapter, Meg stays with the wealthy Moffat family to celebrate Belle Moffat’s coming-out party as she was turning sixteen. The March f...
The Betrothed of Destiny
October 12, 2020 14:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read an Armenian folktale titled “The Betrothed of Destiny”. It comes from A.G. Sekelmann’s 1898 “The Golden Maiden and other Armenian folktales. This particular story features a fearless, strong heroine. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. — read by 'V' — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Ghost Ship
October 09, 2020 06:00 - 31 minutesTonight, during our second annual October classic horror series, we'll read "The Ghost Ship", written by Richard Middleton published posthumously in 1912. Middleton was a tragic figure - a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty and unrequited love for an impossible woman. None of his novels were published while he was alive. Soon after his death, he was quote unquote discovered and critically acclaimed fo...
An Autumn Dinner
October 07, 2020 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we'll read excerpts from "The Feasts of Autolycus" , including "An Autumn Dinner" and "The Magnificent Mushroom", published in 1900 and edited by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. Pennell was an American travel writer, columnist, biographer and memoirist. Her biographies included the first in almost ...
The Magic Cloak pt. 5
October 05, 2020 17:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to our Magic Cloak series, from the book "Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak", a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and published in 1905. "The Magic Cloak" part 1 aired on Nov 11, 2019. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. The events of the book alternate between Nol...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
October 02, 2020 17:00 - 40 minutesTonight, during our second annual October classic horror series, we’ll read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", a gothic story by American author Washington Irving. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, it is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween. The Headless Horseman was believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle. Hessians was what the American’s called German soldiers w...
Peter Pan pt. 7
September 30, 2020 06:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we shall read the next chapter to "Peter Pan", the 1911 novel by J.M. Barrie. If you’d like to start this story from the beginning, you can find the first part aired on March 20th, 2019. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. In the last episode, Peter Pan flies in right after Tootles has shot Wendy. Peter is about...
Heidi pt. 8
September 28, 2020 17:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the next part to the classic children’s story "Heidi", published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. If you’d like to start from the beginning, you’ll find that the very first episode aired on March 8th, 2019. If you’d like to listen to the last episode before this one, it aired on August 24th, 2020. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and mo...
The Mariposa Barbershop
September 25, 2020 19:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read an excerpt from the 1912 book "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town", from a chapter called “The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe”. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. However, if you would like to find the first episode in this series, it aired on August 23, 2019. This humorous and affectionate account of small-town li...
The Princess and the Goblin pt. 6
September 23, 2020 17:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read part 6 to "The Princess and the Goblin", a children’s fantasy novel, published in 1872. If you’d like to start from the beginning, the first episode aired on April 15th, 2019. If you’d like to listen to the previous episode, part four aired August 19th, 2020. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. One of...
Badger the Mischief Maker | Algonquin Legends
September 21, 2020 18:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the story of the mischievous animals of Algonquin Legends, particularly the badger, the weasel fairies, the moose and the marten. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. This story is based on one found in the book “Algonquin Legends of New England”, published in 1884 and compiled by Charles Godfrey Leland. The Algonquian...
The Exhilaration of the Road
September 18, 2020 17:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read a short work by John Burroughs called "The Exhilaration of the Road". It is taken from a compilation titled "The Footpath Way", an anthology for walkers published in 1911. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. John Burroughs was an American nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement. Burroughs accompanied...
The Secret Garden pt. 4
September 16, 2020 18:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the fourth part to "The Secret Garden", a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in 1911. Set in England, it is now one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. In the last episode, little Mary and the maid M...
Arthur's Court | Tales of King Arthur
September 14, 2020 17:00 - 41 minutesTonight, we’ll read more stories from "King Arthur and His Knights". If you’d like to listen to the first stories in this series, you can find our episode titled “The Sword Excalibur” that aired on April 10, 2020. If you’d like to listen to the most recent previous episode again, “The Great Feast” aired August 3rd, 2020. King Arthur was a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6t...
Pride and Prejudice pt. 7
September 11, 2020 19:00 - 32 minutesTonight, we’ll read the next part to "Pride and Prejudice", written by Jane Austen. If you’d like to listen from the beginning, episode one aired on August 28th, 2019. If you’d like to listen to the last episode, it aired on July 27th, 2020. "Pride and Prejudice" follows Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and eventually comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. In the previous episode,...
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
September 09, 2020 14:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read a fairy tale by listener request called "The Twelve Dancing Princesses". To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. This tale is best known as part of the German Brothers Grimm collection, but there are variants of it from around the world including the folk tales of Russia, Iceland, India, Armenia, France, Turkey and Portug...
Little Women ch. 9 pt. 1 "Vanity Fair"
September 07, 2020 18:00 - 33 minutesTonight, we’ll read the first part of the ninth chapter of “Little Women” by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1868, titled “Meg Goes to Vanity Fair”. Following the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her sisters. In the previous chapter, "Jo Meets Apollyon" (Napolean), Jo comes to terms with her fiery temper when little sister Amy falls through thin ice due to J...
The Blue Carbuncle | Sherlock Holmes
September 04, 2020 20:00 - 37 minutesTonight, we’ll read the story "The Adventure of The Blue Carbuncle" from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", published in 1891. The dermatological term “Carbuncle” refers to a painful cluster of boils on the skin. In this case, however, The Blue Carbuncle is a missing and near-priceless gemstone. -- read by 'N' -- Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Magic Cloak pt. 4
September 02, 2020 17:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the fourth part to our "The Magic Cloak" series, from the book "Queen Zixi of Ix, or The Story of the Magic Cloak", a children's book written by L. Frank Baum and published in 1905. The Magic Cloak episode one aired on Nov 11, 2019. If you’d like to listen to the previous episode again, Part 3 aired July 15th, 2020. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this ...
The Good Anna | Three Lives
August 31, 2020 20:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBTonight, we’ll read The Good Anna, a short story written by Gertrude Stein as part of her first published book, titled “Three Lives” published in 1909. Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the United States, she moved to Paris as an adult and stayed there the rest of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso,Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Henri Matisse would meet. ...
The Good Anna
August 31, 2020 20:00 - 7 minutesWe hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read "The Good Anna", a short story written by Gertrude Stein as part of her first published book, titled “Three Lives” published in 1909. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the United States, she moved to Paris as an adult and stayed there the r...
Watching Seabirds | Birdwatching
August 28, 2020 20:00 - 31 minutesTonight, we’ll be reading another chapter from the book "Bird Watching" published in 1901 by Edmund Selous, titled "Watching Gulls and Skuas".If you enjoy this episode, be sure to listen to our "Blackbirds" episode and the "Watching Birds from a Haystack" episode from this series as well. The author started as a conventional naturalist of his time, but Selous developed a hatred of the common practice at the time of killing animals for scientific study and was a pioneer of bird-watching as a...