The History of Bread, by John Ashton, Part 2
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Tonight, let's continue sifting through the sleepy history of the staff of life, including Greek myths, Pompeii's ruins, Chinese threshing, and chapati's role in revolution.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep. |
| 0:17.0 | Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to some new members of our |
| 0:24.2 | Patreon family, Nicky, Rebecca, Kiwi, Michael, and Robin. Thank you all so much for supporting this podcast. Your help |
| 0:36.0 | makes it possible to produce new episodes week after week and keep them ad free for |
| 0:41.0 | everyone and it's very much appreciated. |
| 0:44.0 | Since you supported us in the month of May, |
| 0:47.4 | all of you along with everyone who supported us in April |
| 0:51.5 | will be entered into a drawing at the end of the month. |
| 0:55.4 | The prize for which is an exclusive episode made just for you, and because it's just for |
| 1:01.6 | you, we'll be a little lenient with those copyright restrictions. |
| 1:06.0 | If you'd like to support us and be entered into that drawing, |
| 1:10.0 | you'll find links to Patreon as well as buy me a coffee.com in the show |
| 1:15.2 | description and I hope you'll take a moment to check them out. Now let's relax |
| 1:21.8 | and read. |
| 1:24.6 | Find a comfortable spot. |
| 1:27.8 | Adjust your volume. |
| 1:30.8 | Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go. |
| 1:41.0 | Tonight we're continuing with one of the most popular books I've read on this |
| 1:44.9 | podcast, The History of Bread, from Prehistoric to Modern Times, by John Ashton, published in |
| 1:55.7 | 1904 by the Religious Tract Society London. |
| 2:00.3 | Let's pick up where we left off. |
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