A smorgasbord of calming softly-spoken talk broadcast from rural and small-town Britain. One man chat about foraging, legends, customs with a bedtime story all designed to keep you company through the small dark hours of the night and ease you off to sleep #unintentionalASMR #talkradio #sleepaid #latenightradio
South of Naples, the map thins out and the light changes.
George Gissing follows that pallid light down into Calabria — through half-deserted stations, ruined Greek harbours and hill villages where the old world still clings on.
The land seems ancient and beautiful. The people ghosts in a landscape haunted by vanished gods, lost libraries, and the slow dark of the Ionian Sea.
By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy was first published in 1901. This text is from the public-domain edition made available by Project Gutenberg.
George Gissing (1857–1903) was an English novelist and essayist, best known for his unsentimental portraits of urban poverty. In this late work he turned south, tracking the broken afterlife of classical Greece and Rome along the forgotten edge of Italy.
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31 May 2024
Sleepy Folklore: Whitsun Ales, Oak Apples, Hay Meadows and Dreamy Snoozy Snuffly Sleep Talk
Sleepy Folklore: Whitsun Ales, Oak Apples, Hay Meadows and Dreamy Snoozy Snuffly Sleep Talk. Remember the point is there is no point. Idle, ramble, sleep, snooze, dream. That's it.
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23 May 2024
Sleepy Folklore: Beating the Bounds in Oxford, Dunting in Northumberland, King Arthur and Cúchulain, Onions and Old Man's Beard
Ascension Day Customs, Beating The Bounds in Oxford, a Bit of Dunting in Northumberland, Old Man’s Beard and Onions and a bedtime story: King Conchobhar of Ulster and and King Arthur and Merlin too. Sleep, doze, dream. Nothing's more important than a good kip.
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