Nightly Bedtime Story Podcast
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Nightly bedtime story for everyone read by Kevin Hayes the Story Man.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kevin Hayes pairs sustained classic-story readings with brief, friendly guidance that helps families follow serialized tales from night to night.
Nightly Bedtime Story Podcast gives familiar tales room to unfold through straightforward, sustained readings. Kevin Hayes introduces each work, then keeps his own commentary to the edges.
Scrooge's next ghost can wait until tomorrow night, and so can you.
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A drowsy barroom spin through Twain's betting tale, with dogs, a frog, and one lingering cow mystery.
Mark Twain's comic betting tale settles in as an adult bedtime story, with Kevin Hayes, the story man, first placing Simon Wheeler by the barroom stove before letting the account wander toward Jim Smiley and his habit of wagering on almost anything.
Scrooge turns a supernatural warning into practical Christmas kindness.
Scrooge's second chance matters because it turns immediately into motion. He wakes, sends the large turkey toward Camden Town by cab, greets strangers with open pleasure, and meets the gentleman from his counting-house with an apology.
A familiar Hans Christian Andersen tale, framed as a nightly bedtime story, that follows a lonely duckling toward belonging and recognition.
Kevin Hayes presents Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling as a bedtime tale, and the story lands in the familiar way it should. A lonely duckling is turned away again and again, then carried through a long stretch of hurt toward belonging.
A traditional giant tale where patience beats bluster and the causeway story lands cleanly.
Finn and the Scottish Giant is a familiar folktale about strength meeting wit, with the landscape explanation giving the story its shape. Kevin Hayes tells it like a bedtime story, and the pace stays steady as the giant boasts, Finn keeps out of sight, and the foster mother…
Cozy adventures that settle into sleep.
Quiet places described in close detail, built for bedtime.
Kevin Hayes reads the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale 'The Golden Goose,' about a kind but simple young man who shares his meager food with a magical old man and is rewarded with a golden goose that leads to a series of comical adventures.
The host narrates the Irish folktale of Finn McCool, who uses clever tricks and deception to defeat a much larger and stronger Scottish giant.
Kevin Hayes narrates Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale 'The Ugly Duckling,' following a duckling who is mocked for his appearance by everyone in the farmyard.
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A magical sprite called the Little Brown Man lives happily in a Tall Pine Tree until a storm wind curses him with a frightening appearance, trapping him on the ground until a kind child speaks to him.
Kevin Hayes narrates an original bedtime story about Sparky, a talented firefly whose light explodes during a performance, leaving him without his glow.
Kevin Hayes narrates the classic fairy tale 'Jack and the Beanstalk,' where a lazy boy trades his family's cow for magic beans that grow into a giant beanstalk.
Kevin Hayes reads the classic fairy tale Puss in Boots as a bedtime story.
Kevin Hayes reads the Brothers Grimm fairy tale 'The Frog Prince' as a bedtime story.
Kevin Hayes reads the classic fairy tale 'Tom Thumb' as a bedtime story.
Kevin Hayes reads Beatrix Potter's classic tale 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' as a bedtime story.
Kevin Hayes reads the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood as a bedtime story for children.
Kevin Hayes reads Mark Twain's classic short story 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' as a bedtime story for adults.
Kevin Hayes reads Mark Twain's humorous short story 'Jim Baker's Blue Jay Yarn' about a miner who understands animal language.
Kevin Hayes reads Oscar Wilde's classic fairy tale 'The Selfish Giant' as a bedtime story.
Kevin Hayes reads the classic fable 'The Ant and the Grasshopper' with a moral lesson.
Kevin Hayes reads the classic fairy tale 'The Shoemaker Rat' as a nightly bedtime story.
Scrooge buys the prized turkey and sends it to Bob Cratchit without signing the note.
Kevin Hayes narrates episode 6 of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, continuing Ebenezer Scrooge’s lesson with the Ghost of Christmas Present.
Kevin Hayes reads Episode 5 of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, beginning Stave 3 with Ebenezer Scrooge's encounter with the Ghost of Christmas Present.
Kevin Hayes reads Episode 4 of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, following Ebenezer Scrooge through memories of Fezziwig and Belle.
Kevin Hayes reads Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, beginning with Stave One, "Marley's Ghost," on Christmas Eve.