Open When You Can't Sleep: Recent Episodes

Harshini Saroja Iyer

Let me read you to sleep

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collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

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selected works by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

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by Gerard Nolst Trenité

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a Greek myth, retrieved by Richard Buxton

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a Japanese folktale

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a Japanese folktale, retrieved by F Hadland Davis

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by Harshini Iyer

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a Hindu legend

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selected poems by Harshini Iyer

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a Russian folktale

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by the Brothers Grimm

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an English fairytale, retrieved by Joseph Jacobs

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a German folktale

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by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Godiva - by Alfred, Lord TennysonLady Godiva - retelling by Roger of Wendover

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by Edgar Allen Poe

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'[...] That's what I mean to be. But now I'll tell you what I mean to do.'

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... they began to quarrel again, and in the same old words - 'Katy did.' 'Katy didn't.'

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The "trailer" to What Katy Did, by Susan Coolidge

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by HP Lovecraft

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by HP Lovecraft

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a Russian folktale, translated by Irina Zheleznova

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by Charles Dickens

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by HP Lovecraft

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by the Brothers Grimm

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by the Brothers Grimm

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by the Brothers Grimm

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by the Brothers Grimm

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by Edgar Allen Poe

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by Edgar Allen Poe

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by Edgar Allen Poe

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by Edgar Allen Poe

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by Edgar Allen Poe

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by Edgar Allen Poe

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'Now, Kitty!' she cried, clapping her hands triumphantly. 'Confess that was what you turned into!'

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...after all.

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The Red Queen made no resistance whatever...

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'I never expected I should be a Queen so soon...'

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'Only I do hope its my dream, and not the Red King's!'

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'I only wish I had such eyes,' the King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too!'

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'It can't be anyone else!' she said to herself. 'I'm as certain of it as if his name were written all over his face.'

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'But I don't want it fine at all!' groaned the poor Queen. 'I've been a-dressing myself for the last two hours.'

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'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'

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... this was anything bur a regular bee: in fact, it was an elephant...

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'Oh, it's too bad!' she cried. 'I never saw such a house for getting in the way! Never!'

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One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it - it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

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The "trailer" to Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll

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Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had out the Lizard in head downwards...

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'I wish they'd get the trial done,' she thought, 'and hand round the refreshments!'

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'... so you can have no idea what a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!'

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'... Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered...'

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'Would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, 'why you are painting those roses?'

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'There's plenty of room!' said Alice indignantly...

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She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.

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'... I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'

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'The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!'

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'I am older than you, and must know better...'

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'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice...

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'... and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?'

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The "trailer" to Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll