{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Sleepbound (free)","title":"Hansel and Gretel — by Brothers Grimm","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4621,"description":"Hansel and Gretel\nA Sleepbound Bedtime Retelling\n\nTonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.\n→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com\n→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound\nOur other two shows, if tonight's isn't quite what you were after:\n→ Sleepbound Nights — original cosy bedtime stories for grown-ups: Apple Podcasts\n→ Sleepbound Soundscapes — ambient sleep music, no narration: Apple Podcasts\n\n\n\nTonight 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\nWe'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.\n\nSettle in. There's no rush to what comes next.\nThanks for making space for stories like this one. Sweet dreams.\n— Ian & Alex\n\n\n💤 This story is for you if\n\nYou fall asleep better with a voice than with silence\nYou love fairy tales told slowly, with room to breathe\nYou want something gentle enough to actually let go\nCottages at the forest's edge and firelit evenings are your kind of bedtime\n\n\n\n🌙 Best experienced\nHeadphones on. Lights off. Somewhere warm.\nLet the going-down tune do the rest.\nIncludes mentions of: Food, Loss, Animals, Fire, Weather, Forest, Children.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/i3KcOLdrBAcMELpAUwt0BHGPtrxJNbUG61cRQR16fu8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80N2Q3/YTk3NTRlNTBmZmUz/NDkzMmQ3ZjljYmM1/ODEzNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}