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Slow, gentle narration of long-form audiobooks for sleep — classic literature read softly to help you drift off, hour after hour. Recorded gently, for sleep, by Sleepbound Studios.

  1. 6 Jul

    The Princess and the Pea — A Sleepbound Bedtime Retelling

    The Princess and the Pea He would lie in the dark and feel the whole of the bed beneath him, every crease and crumb and unevenness of it. Tonight, we settle into a small, rain-soaked kingdom with Rasmus — a prince who feels every crease in the linen, every draught from a half-open door, the whole quiet weight of the sleeping castle while the world sleeps on.A slow, warm bedtime retelling of a beloved fairy tale — wide enough to actually let go in. A king who answers his own gate. A mother who sees everything. A prince waiting, quietly, for someone who feels the world the way he does. This is a slow, fairy-tale reading for sleep — soft spoken. No drama. Just rain on old stone, a candle at the window, one small kingdom holding its breath. Thanks for listening with us tonight. Sweet dreams. — Ian & Alex 💤 This story is for you if You fall asleep better with a voice than with silence You love slow, expanded fairy tales with room to breathe You want something unhurried enough to actually let go Candlelit kingdoms and quiet rainy nights are your kind of bedtime 🌙 Best experienced Headphones on. Lights off. Somewhere warm. Let the rain on old stone do the rest. Includes mentions of: Weather, Animals, Mention of Loss.

    The Princess and the Pea — A Sleepbound Bedtime Retelling

  2. 29 Jun

    Hansel and Gretel — by Brothers Grimm

    Hansel and Gretel A Sleepbound Bedtime Retelling Tonight we step back to the edge of the great forest — Hansel with the wooden wren in his pocket, Gretel watching for the white bird among the bean-rows, and their father humming a slow going-down tune into the dark after them. The hunger hasn't come yet. The good years are still going by, quiet as a stream. This is a slow, fairy-tale reading for sleep — soft spoken, no music. No urgency. Just the woodcutter's fire, the sound of cold water over mossy stone, and two children who know the wood the way other children know the rooms of a house. We've taken the old story and breathed more room into it — room for summer afternoons by the spring, for a little birch-bark boat, for the warmth of a remembered voice. It's a bedtime telling: unhurried, close, and made for the hour when the world shrinks to the small gold reach of the firelight. Settle in. There's no rush to what comes next. Thanks for making space for stories like this one. Sweet dreams. — Ian & Alex 💤 This story is for you if You fall asleep better with a voice than with silence You love fairy tales told slowly, with room to breathe You want something gentle enough to actually let go Cottages at the forest's edge and firelit evenings are your kind of bedtime 🌙 Best experienced Headphones on. Lights off. Somewhere warm. Let the going-down tune do the rest. Includes mentions of: Food, Loss, Animals, Fire, Weather, Forest, Children.

    Hansel and Gretel — by Brothers Grimm

  3. 30 Apr

    Downton Abbey: The Young Countess – Episode 2

    Downton Abbey: The Young Countess – Episode 2 By Hugo Ashcombe "If we appear to be trying, we have already failed." Welcome back, and thank you for being here tonight. Episode 2 settles into Brook Street on a May morning in 1860, as Lady Pembury wages a six-hour campaign to make the drawing room look as though it has never been arranged. The damp patch disappears behind a Chinese screen. Sir Marcus wanders in — magnificently unhelpful — and is handed a strict list of subjects he must on no account raise. Then Patrick arrives five minutes early with narcissi from a street barrow and no vase to put them in, and the Pembury household is quietly, tenderly laid bare: the hired furniture, the mismatched teacups, the landlady's stolen sherry. Warm, a little heartbreaking, and perfectly suited to the last quiet hour of the day. Episode 3 brings the visit itself — and everything Sir Marcus cannot quite help saying. Settle in. As a Patreon supporter, this episode is yours to download and keep — thank you, always, for making this channel possible. Downton Abbey: The Young Countess is an original fan fiction work, independently produced and not affiliated with or endorsed by Carnival Films, ITV, or the official Downton Abbey franchise. If tonight's story leaves you wanting more of this world, our sister channel Sleepbound Nights carries a sequel series set in the world of Downton — well worth a quiet evening. Patreon · YouTube · Website Includes mentions of: Beverages, Food, Mention of Debt, Romance. (00:07) - At Home

    Downton Abbey: The Young Countess – Episode 2

  4. 30 Apr

    The Farthest Shore – Part 7

    The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 7 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Spears greet them at Obehol's shore — and before Ged and Arren can turn back, the wound is dealt and Sopli, lost to the pull of an immortal dream, slips beneath the waves. Two survivors, adrift on an empty sea, are gathered at last by the quiet people of the great raft-town, who ask nothing and offer shelter. It is there, in the slow time of healing, that Arren speaks aloud the shame he has carried — the doubt, the betrayal, the creeping despair that had nearly unmade him. And Ged, for the first time, calls him Lebannen, and speaks of death and selfhood and the dance above the abyss. A chapter of reckoning and restoration — one of the most quietly luminous nights in all of Earthsea. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third book in the Earthsea Cycle — a luminous, philosophical fantasy in which the Archmage Ged and the young prince Arren sail to the ends of the world to find why magic is fading from the land. Its deep stillness, ocean rhythms, and meditations on mortality and meaning make it one of the most naturally suited novels ever written for slow, late-night listening. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.

    The Farthest Shore – Part 7

  5. 30 Apr

    Whose Body?

    Whose Body? — The Complete Audiobook By Dorothy L. Sayers Hello, dear supporters — thank you so much for being here. Tonight's reading is a real treat: the complete, unabridged audiobook of Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers, all thirteen chapters in one long, cosy listen. This is the mystery that introduced the world to the wonderfully witty Lord Peter Wimsey — a nobleman with a monocle, a quick mind, and an irresistible fondness for puzzles. When a naked stranger turns up in a Battersea bathtub, and a prominent financier vanishes from his London townhouse on the very same night, Peter can't help but get involved. What follows is a deliciously clever tale of imposture, deduction, and a villain hiding in plain sight — all unfolding at a pace perfectly suited to a quiet evening under the covers. We hope it carries you gently off to sleep. Settle in, get comfortable, and let tonight's mystery do the rest. Thank you, truly, for making this possible. 🤍 ▶️ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepbound 🌙 More audiobooks: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ 💛 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound

    Whose Body?

  6. 29 Apr

    The Farthest Shore

    The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 9 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep Ged and Arren sail into the Dragons' Run — a labyrinth of wind-carved rock and maddened dragons, stripped of their Speech, tearing at one another in silence. On a desolate beach, a great dragon lies dying, the sea dark around it. At the Keep of Kalessin, Orm Embar returns — wordless now, speaking only through intent and gesture — to deliver the one truth that matters: Cob is on Selidor. Then, late in the night, as Arren sleeps, Ged speaks quietly to no one but the dark — of Tenar, of Ogion, of the forests of Gont he may never walk again. A chapter of ruin and silence, and one man's longing for home. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third book in the Earthsea Cycle — a lyrical, elegiac fantasy in which the Archmage Ged and a young prince voyage toward the edge of the world to confront a darkness draining all magic from the land. Its measured pace, vast oceanic silences, and quietly devastating emotional depth make it one of the most beautifully suited stories for late-night listening imaginable. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.

    The Farthest Shore

  7. 29 Apr

    The Farthest Shore – Part 12

    The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 12 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep On the fog-grey sands of Selidor, Ged lies barely breathing — the door sealed, Cob defeated, but every thread of his wizardry spent and gone. Arren tends him through the quiet hours, finding water, keeping watch, until the oldest of all dragons descends from the sky: Kalessin, iron-coloured and rust-red-winged, speaking Ged's name three times like a benediction. There is something unutterably tender in this ending — the great Archmage lifted on a dragon's back, his yew staff left half-buried in the sand, the long voyage home made on wings older than memory. Tonight's reading carries us back to Roke Knoll, where Ged kneels before Arren in the early light and a long and irreversible farewell begins. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the final book of the original Earthsea trilogy — a lyrical, deeply philosophical fantasy about death, sacrifice, and what it costs to keep the world whole. Its elegiac pacing and spare, luminous prose make it one of the most quietly moving audiobook experiences in the fantasy canon. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.

    The Farthest Shore – Part 12

  8. 29 Apr

    The Farthest Shore – Part 8

    The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin — Part 8 Audiobook | Calming reading for sleep The Long Dance of midsummer falls suddenly silent on the great raft-town — the chanters have forgotten the words, the song dissolving into the warm night air. Ged turns to Arren and commands him to sing, and so Arren raises his voice alone, offering up the Creation of Eá, the oldest song in the world, until the dance is restored and carries them gently through to dawn. Then, in the pale first light, a great golden dragon — Orm Embar — descends from the sky and settles upon the rafts. He and Ged speak in the Old Speech of things that are breaking in the west, of dragons being destroyed, and of a darkness that must be followed. Tonight's reading holds within it something rare: a moment of song in the midst of forgetting, and the quiet, solemn weight of a promise made at the edge of the world. All Sleepbound readings are calm, unhurried, and made for quiet listening at night. ☾ Listen ad-free & get early access: → Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/SleepBound → Website: https://headphonesaudiobooks.com/sleepbound/ ☾ More from Sleepbound: → Original Sleepy Stories: https://www.youtube.com/@SleepBoundNights → Ambient Sleep Music: https://www.youtube.com/@sleepboundsoundscapes ☾ About this audiobook The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin is the third volume of the Earthsea trilogy — a lyrical, philosophical fantasy in which the Archmage Ged and the young prince Arren sail to the ends of the world to find the source of a great unravelling. Its quiet pacing, vast open-sea imagery, and deep meditations on life, death, and what it means to be whole make it one of the most naturally restful stories ever written. Sleepbound brings classic and contemporary stories to life with calm, unhurried narration — perfect for sleep, relaxation, or quiet evenings.

    The Farthest Shore – Part 8
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Slow, gentle narration of long-form audiobooks for sleep — classic literature read softly to help you drift off, hour after hour. Recorded gently, for sleep, by Sleepbound Studios.

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  • Creator
    Sleepbound · Ian & Alex
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    163
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Sleepbound Studios
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    Sleepbound (free)