A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the hot summer of 1858 the River Thames runs low and foul through London. An engineer named Joseph Bazalgette sets out to build a great network of brick tunnels beneath the city, and a wide stone embankment with gardens beside the river.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the early summer of 1813, a woman named Laura Secord sets out on foot through the Niagara country of Upper Canada, on a long walk through the woods to carry a warning.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In the late summer of 1911, the most famous painting in Paris disappears from its wall in the Louvre, and a long, quiet search begins.

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This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. Two brothers from a bicycle shop in Ohio travel to a long, windy stretch of sand dunes on the North Carolina coast, and spend season after season learning how to fly.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In 1900, a crew of sponge divers sheltered from a storm beside a small Greek island and found an ancient shipwreck below them. Among the finds taken to a museum in Athens was a small bronze gear, and the long, patient work to understand the machine it came from.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.

A calm, slow telling of a true story to help you drift off. In 1915 the ship Endurance is held fast in the Antarctic ice, and her crew wait out a long, dark winter on the frozen sea. Then a small boat sets out across the ocean for help, and in the end every one of the twenty-eight men comes home.

Soft rain plays throughout. No sudden sounds.

This episode was created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host’s voice.