Witty Historian

About Witty Historian

Witty Historian is a sleep-focused history podcast featuring calm, immersive storytelling designed to help you fall asleep. Each episode explores unusual and often unsettling historical topics — including drug history, human behavior, and forgotten events — told in a slow, steady voice for relaxation and sleep. Perfect for listeners looking for sleep stories, relaxing podcasts, or quiet background narration to unwind at night.

Publisher

Witty Historian

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Apr 2026

Latest episode

5 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

99 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Nov 2026

   Why 1970s America Had a Drug for Every Occasion

   Fall asleep to the strange history of 1970s American drug culture- from marijuana shared around the living room to cocaine at Studio 54 and sleeping pills taken before a night out. Explore how Quaaludes, prescription drugs, and changing social habits helped give America a drug for seemingly every occasion. #drugs #history #sleep #documentary

2. 

   2 Nov 2026

   How People Used Weed to Fall Asleep for Centuries

   For centuries, people ate, drank, and took cannabis as medicine in the hope of getting some sleep. In India, it came in drinks and sweets. In Victorian England, a doctor might prescribe a little bottle of Indian hemp. This history of weed and sleep follows those preparations, the people who tried them, and the gap between hoping for a restful night and finding out what the remedy actually did.

3. 

   29 Oct 2026

   What Getting High Was Like in Medieval Times

   Fall asleep to the strange history of getting drunk and high in medieval Europe. From ale and wine to opium, henbane, and mandrake, discover what people took for pleasure, pain, and a better night's sleep and what could happen when the remedy had other plans.

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5.0 / 5

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