Bedtime travel tales with a fable's pulse.
AudreyStories is a narrated fiction series for adults, shaped like bedtime travel tales with real places under the surface. Episodes move from Rio's Corcovado mountain to a Canadian forest, Cuba, Panama, and Italy, pairing historical texture with intimate imagined lives.
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AudreyStories is a fiction series for adults who like bedtime pacing with a traveler's eye for place. Its episodes move through Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Panama, Italy, and other story worlds where landmarks and private lives press against each other. The narration favors big openings. A secret dream becomes a path toward a ten-story statue above Rio de Janeiro. A South African teenager in a Canadian forest becomes a story about loneliness, music, snow, and the northern lights. A suitcase arriving in Cuba becomes both a practical gift and a test of trust in a place where everyone is watching. A wealthy man in Panama sings a chicken song while worrying that his chosen heir may refuse him. An Italian family story turns inherited genius into something strange, funny, and faintly eerie. The show's pleasure is in that mix of grandeur and domestic detail. It can linger on paperwork, bathwater, chimney tiles, rose petals, inventories, plastic chairs, and mountain rock with equal interest. The stories are soft enough for night listening, but they are not empty. They carry homesickness, ambition, public watching, family expectation, generosity, and wonder. Historical facts appear as anchors rather than lectures. Christ the Redeemer is described through the dream, planning, materials, and long persistence behind the statue. The aurora borealis is treated as science, omen, weather, and welcome all at once. Cuba's political atmosphere shapes the emotional stakes of a simple delivery. Panama's luxury is played against humility, awkward compassion, and the absurdity of travel across class lines. The prose has an oral, winding cadence, often repeating names or images until they feel fable-like. Humor arrives sideways, usually through exaggeration or a blunt little observation. AudreyStories stands apart from ordinary sleep fiction because it keeps curiosity awake while the pace stays calm. It is best for listeners who want to drift through a story and still wake up remembering a mountain, a room, or a person waiting for courage.
Made for: For adults who like gentle narrated fiction, atmospheric settings, historical texture, and emotional stories that can be heard at night or during quiet routines.
What sets it apart: The show blends adult bedtime pacing with place-specific storytelling, using real landmarks and social details as anchors for imagined characters and fable-like turns.
Audrey tells "Bedtime Stories for Adults" in English: set in intriguing countries/places. Parts of the stories are true, the rest is imagination - as all good stories should be. All the stories contain fascinating historical facts about lesser known areas of Guatemala, Cuba, Serbia, South Africa, Bosnia, Mexico, Peru, China, India, Burma and more. These stories make good "Bedtime stories for Adults" who struggle to fall sleep, and are humorous - for easy listening while driving to work. Audrey is a South African Canadian storyteller and writer who has traveled to 41 countries. Some of the stories are in Afrikaans...
An orange chimney, frozen roses, then northern lights: Audrey gives your homesickness somewhere luminous to land.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A tender story that turns homesickness toward belonging through small acts of care.
Carissa's grief hits hard: a 17-year-old South African far from home, in a small log house deep in a Canadian forest, held up by Margaret's steady care. The piece works best when it treats loneliness as physical.
A suitcase, a watching neighborhood, and a secret that only makes sense in public.
A suitcase delivery in Cuba becomes a tense scene in Santa Clara, with Maricela waiting under a flowering tree while neighbors look on and whisper.
A funny, gentle inheritance story that turns stress into trust.
Ulrich's panic, Karli's calm, and a chicken song keep the chapter moving toward unexpectedly tender ground. The inheritance plot remains the engine, but the real draw is the long conversation that lets the two test each other's character, speak plainly about loss, and find…
Deborah Treisman and a guest writer read and dissect one archival short story monthly.
Fantasy fiction, performed with literary patience.
Azeroth news from the Lazy Turnip.
Love, masks, murder, and reckoning.
Power grows in silence and suspicion.
["Carissa, 17 and South African, cries in Margaret's attic room in a Canadian forest because she never wanted to immigrate.", "Margaret, 71 and Canadian, is Carissa's piano teacher and six-week foster mother, chosen for her orange house, mosaic chimney, and isolated school-bus route.", "Carissa stays in Canada through grade 12 while her grandmother's birthday, her sick grandfather, Marieke, and Dierwald keep pulling her back to South Africa.", "Margaret answers with a grieving list, handwritten letters, mirror fragments, rose petals, fire on ice, and stories about the Aurora Borealis and the midnight sun."]
Lynette arrives with two black suitcases and an inventory of 20 teddy bears, 20 hearing-aid pairs, and 100 Ziploc bags.
Karli Richter says she almost refused Ulrich Otto Schneider's money before Eustacio changed her mind.
AudreyStories continues “The Heir” with Ulrich Otto Schneider, a 73-year-old German billionaire in Panama City, preparing to tell storyteller Carly Richter why he brought her to a private meeting.
Lucia's river song gives Catarina the missing voice for her mountain symphony.
A bedtime story about an invisible girl born into a family of geniuses in Italy.