The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Taesha Glasgow
4 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Tonight's sleep story is The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy. Published between 1906 and 1921, the books follow the Forsyte family, a "new money" upper middle class family navigating London society in the late 1870s to the early 20th century. In this episode, members of the Forsyte family gather to meet (and inspect) a possible new addition to the family.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. |
| 0:16.2 | Every week, I will read you an old story to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you, |
| 0:24.1 | and drift off to sleep. |
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| 1:18.1 | Do, do, do, bumper! |
| 1:25.3 | Okay, enough Rasmataz. |
| 1:27.9 | But it's not every day a new scratch card drops. |
| 1:31.7 | With the new set for five years scratch card from the National Lottery. |
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| 1:49.0 | Place must be 18 or over. Tonight, I will be reading The Forsyte Saga, the Man of Property, by John Galsworthy. |
| 2:00.0 | So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story. |
| 2:11.4 | Chapter 1 |
| 2:12.6 | At Home at Old Jolians |
| 2:15.6 | Those privileged to be present at a family festival of the foresight's have seen that charming and instructive sight an upper middle-class family in full plumage |
| 2:30.3 | but whosoever these favoured persons has possessed the gift of psychological analysis, |
| 2:36.0 | a talent without monetary value and properly ignored by the foresight's, |
| 2:40.7 | has witnessed a spectacle, not only delightful in itself, but illustrative of an obscure human problem. |
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