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Sleepy

470 – The Selfish Giant

Sleepy

Otis Gray

Alternative Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, my name's Otis Gray and you're listening to Sleepy.

0:10.8

A podcast where I read old books to help you get to sleep.

0:18.8

And this is a midweek short story for you.

0:26.5

Tonight, I've got a really great kind of a turning of the seasons short story for you from none

0:37.4

other than Oscar Wilde, who I've loved reading on the show,

0:42.6

but it's been some time. And tonight is a perfect little story to fall asleep to.

0:52.7

And before we get to the bedtime reading,

0:55.2

I just wanted to generally thank

0:57.5

all of our patrons and supporters on Patreon.

1:01.7

If you are a supporter, thank you so much.

1:05.4

You have no idea how much it means to me.

1:07.9

So thank you.

1:09.3

I really, really appreciate you being a part of making this show.

1:12.9

Thank you. And if you have no idea what Patreon is, um, it's just a website that allows you to

1:21.8

directly support people who make the stuff that you like for small amounts. Usually people give a dollar a month

1:30.3

or two dollars a month, which gives you an ad-free version of Sleepy and $5 gets you access to our

1:39.1

poetry feed. But any amount means so much to me. Even a dollar dollar that really is incredible and goes a long way

1:47.6

with a lot of sleepy listeners doing it um no matter how much you donate i'll so happily read your

1:55.9

name on the opening credits of our next sunday show after you do so if you would like to be a

2:04.9

supporter of this show and directly be a part of making it like so many other sleepy listeners

2:11.1

you can do that by going to patreon.com slash sleepy radio. Thank you.

2:20.9

And as always, the music you're hearing is by my good friend James Lepkowski, and the cover

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