Hello and welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

My name is Teddy and I'm going to read a story from an old book.

Not one that is particularly interesting,

but one that is hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

Tonight's readings will come from Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

It has many characters and subplots.

At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery. Originally published as a 20-episode serial between 1852 and 1853,

with a name such as Bleak House, I believe this will be a good choice to help you get to sleep.

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Chapter 1 Enchancery

London Micklemish term late O in Chancery.

London,

Micklemish term lately over,

and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's in Hall.

Implacable November weather.

As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth and it would not be wonderful to meet a megalosaurus 40 feet long or so waddling like an alphantine lizard up Holbenhill, smoke lowering down from chimney parts,

making a soft black drizzle with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow flakes gone into morning one might imagine

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