Sleepbound Nights (free)

Green Hollow — Episode 1
By Margery Cole

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The hay in the Long Meadow is ripe, the dew is heavy on the gate, and before first light Green Hollow Farm is already stirring. Tonight, Captain the old shire horse goes down the field in harness alongside the new grey Ferguson, and everyone finds their place in the longest, warmest day of the farming year.

This is the first evening at Green Hollow — the Weavers, their two live-in hands, a long breakfast at the scrubbed deal table before the work begins, tea carried out to the field in the afternoon heat, a far rumble of thunder that keeps its distance, and the farm settling to sleep at last as soft rain comes down on the shorn meadow.

Thank you for being here at the very start of this. We hope you drift off somewhere in the middle of the day's long, quiet work.

Take care, everybody. And I'll see you soon.

What is Sleepbound Nights (free)?

Original bedtime stories for grown-ups — cosy serial fiction, written and narrated by us, slow enough to fall asleep to.

Quiet villages and kitchen tables: a toast maker on a Sunday, a bookshop cat who won't settle, a family farm in 1953, a garden almanac kept through the year. Low stakes on purpose. Nothing bad happens. That's deliberate.

Each episode is a whole evening — four hours or so — so you can put it on, settle in, and not be woken by the end of it.

Every series has its own writer: Eliza Hartley writes The Toast Maker, Margery Cole writes Green Hollow, Cecily Ash keeps the Elderwick Almanac.

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Just me and Ian and the writers. Recorded gently, for sleep.