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🗓️ 15 March 2018
⏱️ 83 minutes
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0:00.0 | Did you know choosing the train over your car can cut your carbon footprint by up to two thirds? |
0:06.0 | So, one family outing at a time, one little adventurer at a time, one trip to the museum, one dinner in the city, one nap on the way home at a time. |
0:18.0 | One train journey at a time can help create a greener future. |
0:23.0 | So when will you take your next trip? Find out more at nationalrail.co.uk slash greener. |
0:32.0 | Hi, my name is Otis Gray and you're listening to Sleepy. |
0:38.0 | A podcast where I read you to sleep. |
0:42.0 | I've only just started this show and I realized that the only books I'd be able to read here are books that are in the public domain. |
0:51.0 | It was amazing when I found this out and looked into how many books belong to everyone now. |
0:57.0 | Mostly old books, classics like Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain. |
1:03.0 | So many books that I've wanted to read for a long time, but have always found an excuse not to do it. |
1:10.0 | Now, I get to read them to you. |
1:15.0 | Just because I hope that you'll be asleep by the end of this, I've wanted to say now that the music you're hearing is by my really good friend James Lepkowski. |
1:24.0 | And it's played on this amazing guitar ukulele thing that he made. |
1:30.0 | Tonight, I get to read you a story that was a really big part of my childhood. |
1:35.0 | It's Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham, written in 1908. |
1:40.0 | My brother and I didn't really have TV growing up, but we had a lot of really great old movies on VCR, Disney movies and Oldie Eller and Homeward Bound. |
1:50.0 | And one of them that we watched over and over and over again was the 1995 cartoon version of Wind in the Willows. |
1:58.0 | It's amazing. I've probably seen it a hundred times by now, but I've never read the book. |
2:04.0 | So tonight, I'm finally going to read it while you drift off into a deep, deep sleep. |
2:12.0 | So lay your head down, settle in, fix your pillow just how you like it, slowly melt into your bed, and close your eyes, and let me read to you. |
2:23.0 | Chapter 1 The River Bank |
2:33.0 | The mall had been working very hard all morning, spring cleaning is little home, first with brooms, then with dusters, then on ladders and steps and chairs. |
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