Bedtime Stories with Taesha Glasgow
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Do you have trouble drifting off to sleep? My mission is simple. To help you relax, put the stressful day behind you and drift off to sleep. In every episode, I will read an old story in the public domain. So lie down, settle into your pillow, close your eyes, and let me read you a bedtime story to help you sleep. Support the podcast and enjoy ad-free and bonus episodes. Try FREE for 7 days on Apple Podcasts. For other podcast platforms go to https://justsleeppodcast.com/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Tayshia turns classic novels and mysteries into spacious solo readings that preserve their prose, plotting, and atmosphere.
Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults gives classic fiction room to unfold through Tayshia's solo narration. Her introductions quickly establish the reading, then step aside for sustained passages from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy…
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A hushed Frankenstein reading that leans into storm, memory, and a formal, deliberate pace.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein opens in a quiet, measured register, with Walton's letter and Victor's memories unfolding against the northern breeze, the thunderstorm, the lightning, and the oak split by fire.
A dry packing comedy that turns small annoyances into bedtime-ready chaos.
This chapter makes a simple packing job feel like a dry, steadily worsening comic mess. George's practical push for breakfast gear, the refusal of oil, and the ever-growing stack of plates, cups, bottles, pies, stoves, and cakes keep the humor moving by accumulation, while the…
A Halloween classic read with enough hush to turn old fear into bedtime fog.
Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow works well as a Halloween bedtime listen. The pleasure is in the slow, measured drift of the language, which lets Tarrytown, the Tappan Zee, and Ichabod Crane settle into a half-remembered chill.
A patient mystery that keeps its calm while the tension tightens.
The chapter keeps a patient pace while a missing passenger, a suspicious doctor, and the push toward Trieste slowly lock into place. Iris finds the name on the glass, gets the proof she needed, and then has to sit with a bluff that lands hard.
A slow Holmes mystery that settles suspense into a bedtime rhythm.
This Sherlock Holmes bedtime reading settles into Baker Street with a family dispute built around missing stones, a troubled son, and uneasy loyalties. It is framed as a calm story for winding down, so it plays best as a quiet night listen rather than something to track closely.
A measured Norse legend that turns battle into a slow, settling bedtime current.
The episode tracks King Harald through the muster of an army, a battlefield challenge, and a clash staged with broad, ceremonial force. It then settles into Gida's marriage and the old sense of reward, conquest, and fate falling into place.
A calm, stately mystery reading that leans on detail and bedtime atmosphere.
This reading stays with the old story of Clemo and the Duchess's diamonds, and it cares more about mood than momentum. The pace is careful and unhurried, which fits the bedtime framing and gives the piece a calm, stately feel.
A quiet Woolf chapter, where a still London night and careful prose carry the mood.
Virginia Woolf's Night and Day settles into a still London night, with Rodney's small rooms, a moonlit walk, and the arrival of Denham and Harry Sands. Its power lies less in movement than in atmosphere.
Classic stories, patiently brought into the room.
Queer Filipino desire, told close to the skin.
Compact stories with craft beneath the surface.
The host reads from 'The Diary of a Provincial Lady' where the narrator wins a prize but is angry it's shared, writes a protest letter under a false name, and then worries it might be illegal.
The host introduces the podcast's purpose of sharing bedtime stories for relaxation, mentions ad policies and premium options, celebrates the fifth anniversary coinciding with Sleep Awareness Month, and encourages listener feedback via email.
The host introduces a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle, where Holmes presents mysterious documents about the Gloria Scott case to Watson.
The host introduces a romantic bedtime reading of Wuthering Heights, focusing on Catherine's confession and the birth of the last Earnshaw child.
This episode segment introduces a calming sleep story reading of 'A Little Princess' by Frances Hodgson Burnett, starting with Chapter 1 about a girl named Sarah in London on a foggy winter day.
The host introduces a sleep podcast episode that continues reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, focusing on Lydia's story, to help listeners relax and fall asleep.
The host introduces a mystery sleep story by Robert Barr about detective Eugene Valmont investigating a case involving silver spoons.
The host concludes the story 'The Lady Vanishes' by reading Chapter 30, where a doctor interrupts dinner to share a story about a young English person.
The host introduces a sleep podcast and begins reading a story about a young man starting a vineyard in western Virginia.
The host reads from 'The Diary of a Provincial Lady' about the protagonist's tiring Christmas shopping experience, including losing her gift list and dealing with children's preferences.
This episode of the Just Sleep Podcast features the host Tayshia reading an old story called 'No Name' by Wilkinson to help listeners relax and fall asleep.
This episode features a reading of the classic spooky story 'At Chrighton Abbey' by Mary Elizabeth Braden to help listeners relax and fall asleep.
This episode is a bedtime story titled 'Vera's First Christmas Adventure' designed to help listeners relax and fall asleep.
This episode is a sleep-focused podcast reading of the classic mystery story 'The Christmas Thief' by Frank Howell to help listeners relax and drift off to sleep.
This episode of the Just Sleep Podcast features a Christmas bedtime story read by host Tayshia to help listeners relax and fall asleep, with mentions of ads and premium options.
This episode is a narrated sleep story adaptation of L.
This episode features a reading of 'The Burglar's Christmas' by Willa Cather, designed to help listeners relax and fall asleep.
This episode is a bedtime reading of Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery story 'That Little Square Box' to help listeners relax and fall asleep.
This episode introduces a sleep podcast featuring classic fairy tales like Thumbelina to help listeners relax and fall asleep.
Host Tayshia introduces the Just Sleep podcast and reads an old short story designed to help listeners unwind and fall asleep.
The host introduces the podcast and begins reading the first chapter of 'Pollyanna', focusing on Miss Polly's unusual hurried entry into the kitchen and Nancy's reaction.
This segment introduces a mythological sleep story where Robin Hood sets out on an adventure to find the Curtal Friar in Sherwood Forest.
The host introduces the podcast and begins reading a segment from 'Emily of New Moon' where Emily faces challenges and feels a sense of victory despite ridicule.
The host introduces a fairy tale from the Blue Fairy Book about a king's youngest son who leaves home to seek his luck in the world.
This episode of the Just Sleep Podcast features host Tayshia reading F.
This episode is primarily a promotional announcement for Just Sleep's first-ever Lifetime Premium Membership, offered as a holiday special.
This episode features a soothing reading of two Thanksgiving stories by Lucy to help listeners relax and fall asleep.
Host Tayshia reads chapters 27 through 29 of The Lady Vanishes, a classic thriller novel by Ethel Lina White, as part of a serialized bedtime story series.
Host Tayshia reads a chapter from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall, following the early life and rise of Harald Fairhair, who became the first king to unite all of Norway.
Tayshia reads the Grimm fairy tales “Hansel and Gretel” and “Cinderella” on Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults.
Just Sleep host Tayshia reads Maurice Leblanc’s “Madame Ambert’s Safe,” in which Arsène Lupin stages a rescue, infiltrates the Ambert household, and targets a safe containing supposedly immense wealth.
Tayshia reads Ralph Henry Barber's short story "A College Santa Claus," about Satherwaite, a wealthy college student stranded on Christmas Eve after Phil's Aunt Louise becomes ill.
Just Sleep Podcast host Tayshia reads chapters 23–25 of Anne of Green Gables, covering Anne Shirley’s roof-climbing dare, broken ankle, return to Avonlea school, and Christmas concert preparations.
Tayshia reads Beatrix Potter's “The Tailor of Gloucester” on the Just Sleep Podcast, following a poor tailor preparing a cherry-coloured coat and satin waistcoat for Gloucester's mayor's Christmas wedding.
Host Tayshia reads Guy Boothby's Victorian mystery story The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds on the Just Sleep Podcast, following the brilliant criminal Simon Carn — who poses simultaneously as a wealthy Indian art collector and as the celebrated detective Climo (operating from a secret connecting door between their adjacent houses) — as he befriends the Amberley family, charms the Duchess of Wiltshire, borrows her famous Indian jewel case under the pretext of illustrating it for a book, has his Indian craftsmen install a spring-loaded false bottom to conceal the diamonds, and returns the doctored box just in time for the night of the ball.
Host Tayshia reads Mary Shelley Frankenstein as a bedtime story, beginning with the four epistolary letters from Robert Walton to his sister Mrs.
Host Tayshia reads Arthur Conan Doyle's short story 'The New Catacomb' as a Halloween-season spooky story, framed with a brief warm intro and listener thank-yous.
Host Tayshia reads Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as a Halloween bedtime story, following Ichabod Crane, a lanky Connecticut schoolmaster who takes up residence in the enchanted Dutch valley of Sleepy Hollow near Tarrytown, New York.
Host Tayshia reads Chapters 5 and 6 of Virginia Woolf's 1919 novel Night and Day as a sleep-aid bedtime story for adults.
Host Tayshia reads Mary Shelley's short story The Invisible Girl on the Just Sleep Podcast — a Gothic romance set on the Welsh coast in which a traveler sheltering from a storm discovers a mysteriously lit tower occupied by an unseen girl and learns the story of Henry Vernon, a young heir who searches for Rosina, his beloved orphan ward driven away by his tyrannical father.
Host Tayshia reads Chapters 4 and 5 of Jerome K.
Host Tayshia reads Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet as a bedtime story.
Host Tayshia of the Just Sleep Podcast reads Chapters 43 and 44 of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, covering Elizabeth Bennet's visit to Pemberley estate and her unexpected encounter with Mr.