Sleep Bound

About Sleep Bound

Bedtime audiobooks for grown-ups, read slowly enough to fall asleep to. Classic literature, read softly through the long quiet hours: Austen and Wilde, Grimm and Le Guin, ghost stories and country houses and long sea voyages. No drama. No twists. Just the turning page, the low lamp, and somewhere warm to lie down. Episodes run long on purpose. An hour, four hours, sometimes a whole book in one sitting, so the thing doesn't end and wake you. Want the rest of it? Over 500 readings across our three shows, ad-free, with new members-only episodes every week: → Join on Patreon (part one is free on a selection of our series, always): https://www.patreon.com/c/SleepBound Just me and Ian and the writers. Recorded gently, for sleep.

Publisher

Sleepbound · Ian & Alex

Category

arts · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Feb 2024

Latest episode

25 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

224 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Aug 2026

   What Sleepbound Is

   A short introduction to Sleepbound — bedtime audiobooks for grown-ups, read slowly enough to fall asleep to. The full catalogue is at https://sleepbound.click, and part one of every series is free.

2. 

   28 Jul 2026

   Clara Lennox’s Compendium of Spectres – Part 1

   Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time. → Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com (https://sleepboundstudios.supercast.com) → Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound (https://www.patreon.com/c/SleepBound) Our other two shows, if tonight's isn't quite what you were after: → Sleepbound Nights — original cosy bedtime stories for grown-ups: Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/sleepbound-nights-free/id1896841141) → Sleepbound Soundscapes — ambient sleep music, no narration: Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/sleepbound-soundscapes/id1896841004) Dr. Clara Lennox has spent eight years cataloguing the spectres of the British Isles. Tonight, she steps off a ferry onto the Isle of Arra with a mummified manuscript, an academic rival she's been avoiding, and a ginger cat who has hated this expedition since Oban. The islanders don't speak of the Grey Walkers. One just did. Includes mentions of: Animals, Bodies of Water, Beverages, History, Light Peril, Travel, Weather. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Connect Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@sleepbound Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Alex

3. 

   10 Jul 2026

   The Princess Bride – Part 1: The Year Buttercup Was Born

   The Princess Bride – Part 1 Tonight's reading is free — and part one is free on a selection of our series, always. Over 500 more, and every new one first, are on Sleepbound Premium. → patreon.com/c/SleepBound Our other two shows, if tonight's isn't quite what you were after: → Sleepbound Nights — original cosy bedtime stories for grown-ups: Apple Podcasts → Sleepbound Soundscapes — ambient sleep music, no narration: Apple Podcasts Tonight we meet Buttercup — not yet the most beautiful woman in the world, not yet in love, just a girl on a horse named Horse, with a farm boy who answers every command with three quiet words. This is where it all begins: the hills of Florin, the farm, a boy in a hovel who reads by candlelight. Part 1 opens gently — a comic history of beauty, a girl who couldn't care less, and a phrase repeated so often it begins to mean something else. A threshold reading, perfect for settling in. This is a slow, wry fairy-tale reading for sleep — soft spoken. No drama. Just golden farmland, a patient boy, and three words that carry the whole story. Thanks for being here with us tonight. Sweet dreams. — Ian & Alex 💤 This audiobook is for you if You fall asleep better with a voice than with silence You love a story that knows exactly what it is — a fairy tale told with warmth and a wink You want something slow enough to actually let go Old kingdoms, dry wit, and a boy who says "As you wish" is your kind of bedtime 🌙 Best experienced Headphones on. Lights off. Somewhere warm. Let the quiet of the Florin farmlands do the rest. Includes mentions of: Food and sweets, Animals, Illness, Romance, Mild violence.

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

3.7 / 5

3 ratings