A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Apollo, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.
The whole story of the god of light, music, healing and prophecy, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.
He was given more to look after than any of the others, which is part of why his story goes on so long. He arrived on an island that had been floating until his mother came looking for somewhere to give birth, and he seems to have been fully himself within days. What follows is the killing of the serpent at the place that became his, the oracle that Greeks travelled to for a thousand years and came away from more confused than when they arrived, the music that nobody could beat him at and the two who tried anyway, and the healing that he was said to have handed down to a son who took it too far. There's also everyone he loved, which almost never ended well, and a river of grief running underneath all that gold. He was the most civilised of them and the least forgiving, and both of those things are in nearly every story about him.
But the point of this recording isn't really the story. It's the hour or two spent drifting through it. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence sits at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.
That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere on the island where he was born and wake up much later, in the middle of something you've missed the start of, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night.
Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.
Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales, Hindu epics and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.
